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 | Dec 19, 2013 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
As fortune would have it, I’ve been to the beach a few times in the last couple of weeks, walking long distances on sand packed so tight you can ride a bicycle, although most people power walk or jog. Each step leaves a footprint in the sand, just enough to tell the...
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...