by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 5, 2022 | Kinesa Newsletter, The Feldenkrais Method® |
Last night we went to a friend’s art opening. The artist has spent many tortured years working through personal challenges in order to build his international reputation. His craft was never in question: he can paint and sculpt anything in any medium. But life kept...
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 31, 2022 | The Creative Body
We don’t think of our back… till it hurts. It’s…back there. And the part that takes the most beating is our lumbar. Let’s decode that and start feeling better! Your back will thank you. 🙏 Maybe you remember people in the ’50’s...
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 | May 1, 2022 | The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method® |
Years ago, I had a dream where our universe had collided with some other universe or reality, causing this crazy implosion where nothing made sense. Sofas came flying through the air, my house kept changing its shape so that I could never find my way to the elevator,...
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...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 31, 2022 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body
What the world needs now Is love, sweet love. That’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. — Jackie De Shannon I remind myself daily of my incredible good fortune to live in a time when I don’t have to fear the Mongol hordes putting us to the sword, or...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 6, 2022 | Asheville Movement Center, The Creative Body
Let’s not forget our distal parts! Your hands, feet and face connect you to the world, to each other and influence every move you make. (Remember the last time you stubbed your toe?) Movement, research and inquiry; mental, physical, emotional; it will be a sensory...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 6, 2022 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
I was writing in my journal, waxing profound about the arcs in my life. “Sometimes it seems like I’ve spent my life walking in place. I move along and then I hit a wall. After banging my head against it for a while, I often discover there was no wall, or that the wall...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 6, 2022 | Body Language, The Creative Body
Image: Jeff Sheridan performs in Central Park, NYC, circa 1970s. More than 45 years ago, I was sitting in a café at the end of an afternoon of performing in Central Park with our felliniesque collection of buskers ranging from the infamous Philip Petit to… well, me...
