by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 6, 2021 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine
My Web of Habits (And My Arachnid Teacher) In the Academy Award winning film, My Octopus Teacher, naturalist Craig Foster develops a deep relationship with a talented octopus who teaches him life lessons in her brief year on earth. The film has had such an impact on...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 8, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy, Movement and The Spirit, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Photo by Ron Morecraft of an installation by Tomas Saracéno from a work by an anonymous spider. For weeks my carport was Charlotte’s lair. The classic orb spider had spun a glorious, monumental web that sometimes verged on over-ambition, attaching silken threads...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 13, 2019 | Movement and The Spirit, The Creative Body |
Over the years, one of the things that consistently calls me to contemplation is the relationship of movement, energy, presence and well-being. As more and more “studies” trumpet the importance of movement ( it seems any movement is better than no movement) I find...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 2, 2019 | Movement and The Spirit, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
At the beginning of a year, most of us want to look ahead, resolutions, wishes and a bit of trepidation. Will I move into the unknown, or repeat myself, stuck in a loop? I have often found a good way to move forward is to actually go backward. Several spiritual...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 11, 2018 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I’m not a fan of what I call “Hallmark holidays” where industry has either manufactured a sentimental responsibility like Mother’s Day or hijacked a tradition. I’m speaking of Valentine’s Day. You can’t get a restaurant reservation. Flowers quadruple in price....
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 7, 2017 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
They say if you bang a drum long enough, people start to listen. Imagine my delight when I came across this NY Times article by Thomas Friedman. Ever since I read Antonio Damasio’s seminal book, Descarte’s Error, I’ve been trying to tell people,...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 7, 2016 | Body Language, Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method® |
Learn at first, concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light.From the Magician Card – Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism, AnonymousI was having...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 26, 2015 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
When we look at sea creatures opening and closing, flowers unfolding from their buds, the pulsing of galaxies millions of light years away, we feel the connection between that perpetual motion and the pulsation in our own bodies. Here’s a free Feldenkrais...
by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 1, 2014 | Body Language, Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
In the hit TV series, Once Upon A Time, the beloved children’s story character Peter Pan is a malevolent trickster demon whose shape shifting shadow helps imprison people in an eternal hellish present. The X-Men are all shape shifter heroes, though often tormented by...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 15, 2014 | Body Language, Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Power Walk – This is a longer article that explores the power in the pelvic/sacrum area With Open Arms – The symbolism of the cross and our gesture of opening the arms A New Year, A New You – Linking Awareness Through Movement to the myth of Isis and...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 5, 2014 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
The Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris is a reminder to me that for all of human history, the notions of being torn apart and coming back together, of destruction and renewal, of endings and new beginnings are always with us. Osiris is killed by his rival Set, his body...
by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 17, 2013 | Movement and The Spirit, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Modern science has identified a “God” portion of the brain. This purportedly offers us our near death experience of the white light, angels, celestial music and other things we associate with the afterlife and mystical experience. So how does the body...
