by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 17, 2016 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
“…rest is the vital principle which recuperates. It regalvanizes the nerve-centres, collects the scattered forces and so reinvigorates the body.” Genevieve Stebbins, Dynamic Breathing and Harmonic Gymnastics ©1892I was in a dance class the other day where we were...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 10, 2015 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
I’m standing as I write this article. Well, not just standing. I’m also periodically jogging in place, practicing my Zumba moves and throwing in an occasional downward facing dog. You see, I’m preparing myself for a brave new world. It seems that while I was sprawled...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 8, 2015 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
My synesthete friend Gretta once told me that my name is white and green with shades of pink. Two musical synesthetes, from different parts of time and space have sung my name in an identical melody as if they knew a secret language. I have often envied people with...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 10, 2015 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
My husband Ron and I recently had a lively debate on the subject of quality and experience. He’s an artist, with a firm belief that anyone can sense quality when they experience it. I insisted that a person can only discriminate based on previous experience. I...
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 | May 10, 2015 | Body Language, Humor/CosmiComedy, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body
“A person who smiles a lot is either a fool or an American.” Russian saying Gray skies are gonna clear up Put on a happy face. Brush off that frown and cheer up Put on a happy face. From Bye Bye Birdie I...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 20, 2015 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Feldenkrais lessons always look at the whole self, even when it seems we’re just working with one tiny part – in this case, the heels. Enjoy this full length Awareness Through Movement lesson that was recorded during our Feldenkrais online classes. And if...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 3, 2015 | Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method®
“I had a vision before the game that I would make a big play. And then it happened.” -Malcolm Butler of the New England Patriots about his amazing game changing intercept. When the physicist Moshe Feldenkrais decided to dedicate his life to developing his Method in...
by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 25, 2014 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Feldenkrais Method® |
I opened my new refrigerator, reached inside without thinking, pulled out the perfect eggplant, shiny and black and ready to become my meal. And then I stopped, overwhelmed with gratitude.; for everyone involved in getting that eggplant into my hand, for my...
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 | Oct 24, 2014 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
For millenniums society revered the warrior. The protector, the hero, the soldier battled for territory, for freedom, for an ideal. We all carry a piece of the warrior in our DNA, but most of us have no desire to go into battle. What are the qualities of the warrior...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 16, 2014 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I was pondering the connection of the month of August, keeping august company and the Auguste Clown. Was the clown born in August? Did the Auguste act like a clown version of “respected and impressive?” (Oxford Dictionary). After much research, OK, a half hour on...
