by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 7, 2015 | The Creative Body
Years ago, I read an article in Wired Magazine that predicted the end of money as our currency of exchange, replaced by what the author called attention. The suggestion was that in a world filled with goods and information, the resource that is scarce is not money,...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 3, 2015 | 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 | 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 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 | Apr 13, 2015 | The Creative Body
Happy to share this latest audio download – free for one week!
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 2, 2015 | The Creative Body
My students often tease me because I often, when beginning a class, say “This is one of my top ten lessons.” They even once challenged me to teach the top ten, ten weeks in a row. Of course I realized I have more than ten, but this one still is in the...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 17, 2014 | The Creative Body
Hold your hands in front of you, with your palms down. Notice the length of your fingers. Most people’s fingers will be almost straight. Now turn your hands over without interfering with the fingers. Notice how the fingers curl. This is what remains of our grasp...
by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 4, 2014 | The Creative Body
For all you have been waiting with baited breath, my essay compilation, Meditating with My Hair on Fire is now published! Buy it! Review it! Share it! (Kindle version coming soon.)
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 | Sep 17, 2014 | The Creative Body
Shakespeare has been called the world’s greatest playwright. Yet most of his plots were actually borrowed from ancient plays, myths and stories that had been told for thousands of years. What Shakespeare did was bring the archetypes to our human experience, so that we...
