by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 9, 2022 | Kinesa Newsletter, Movement as Medicine |
I bent down to pick up a sock and felt my lower back totally seize up. “Oh no, oh no! Not when I’m in the middle of teaching a series on the lower back!” As if in some way, fate had decided to mock my conviction that movement is the solution to everything and I am...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 5, 2022 | Humor/CosmiComedy, Kinesa Newsletter |
Photo by Erika Fletcher on Unsplash On a recent balmy evening, my husband Ron and I took a walk down our dirt road after dinner. The sun had set and the sky was laced with pink clouds glowing against the azure sky. There is a field at the bottom of the road next to...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 5, 2022 | Kinesa Newsletter, The Creative Body |
I was harvesting my strawberries yesterday. In order to outwit the birds, my husband Ron had built an ingenious “box” composed of a wooden frame with bird netting that I tip over for harvesting and then carefully lower (not to crush any strawberries) back when I’m...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 5, 2022 | Kinesa Newsletter |
I have a bad habit of trying to find meaning in everything. I see three blue Teslas in one day and feel it is a sign to call my old friend who owns a blue Tesla. I pass a piece of graffiti that says “Smile!” and I assume it’s a direct message to me. I once read a book...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 28, 2022 | Kinesa Newsletter
Most of us are familiar with the quote by the philosopher George Santayana, “Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” As I considered this, I stumbled across Warren Buffet’s “What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.” If I...
