Lavinia Plonka

Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Guide

You’ve Got the Power!

Four Paths to Awaken Your Body’s Archetypal Energies

This book took me deep into my own history alongside the challenge and delight of bringing movement to embodying the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary. When you pre-order You’ve Got the Power! now, you’ll get a free Power Package! Just pre-order the book and enter your order # below!

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Four Paths to Awaken Your Body’s Archetypal Energies

I am so excited to announce the launch of a certification training in Kinēsa®. Years of planning and dreaming with my dear colleague Candy Conino have yielded a process that integrates the movement intelligence of Feldenkrais® with ancient wisdom and modern science for a practical application to living your best life. Join me for a powerful free hour and experience lessons from The Kinēsa® Process, my new Feldenkrais Method®-inspired somatic movement system!

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Lavinia offers a variety of online and in-person workshops, as well as one-on-one lessons.

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Online Classes

Lavinia adjusts a client's leg during a private Feldenkrais session

Private Lessons & Coaching

One-on-one learning in person and online.

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Awareness Through Movement® Classes

Drop in on Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays!

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Thursday Series

Ongoing themed classes in 4-week sessions.

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Workshops

Interactive Awareness Through Movement® workshops. Live and on demand.

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If The Shoe Doesn’t Fit…

by Lavinia Plonka | | Kinesa Newsletter | 5 Comments

According to the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio’s “somatic marker hypothesis” we recognize we are about to make a bad decision long before we actually do it. Card players hooked up to sensors exhibited stress signals before admitting they knew the game was rigged. So...

Almost Famous

by Lavinia Plonka | | Kinesa Newsletter | 6 Comments

“In the future, everyone in the world will be famous for 15 minutes.” - Andy Warhol You may not have noticed it, but I became famous almost a year ago. It started with my self-published “best seller” You’ve Got the Power: Four Paths to Unlocking Your Archetypal...

Grasp & Release

by Lavinia Plonka | | Kinesa Newsletter | 11 Comments

My Father lost everything: his home, his store, almost his life, to the Nazis. After the war, he lost everything again trying to open another store in London. And finally in his later years, he lost everything again, bankrupting himself with an ill-fated travel...

Thanks for the Memories

by Lavinia Plonka | | Kinesa Newsletter | 12 Comments

I don’t remember any of my Mother’s stories. I do remember her by the bed, leaning over me, singing: Tell me a story Tell me a story Tell me a story And then I’ll go to bed There are more verses and I remember them as well. But I can’t conjure the image of my Mother...

Sing Me a Story

by Lavinia Plonka | | Kinesa Newsletter | 10 Comments

There is a theory that before humans developed words, they sang to each other, like birds. Imagine the nuance of melody as the angry female demanded to know why the man was so late coming home from the hunt. Or the cooing of a lovers’ conversation. Diplomatic...

Ode to a Spatula

by Lavinia Plonka | | Kinesa Newsletter | 0 Comments

It was a beautiful relationship. Always there when I needed it, scooping, wiping, scraping without ever a complaint, our orange spatula had been with us since the days before silicone utensils. It had traveled with us when we moved from New Jersey 22 years ago, a...

Welcome!

Lavinia Plonka is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and movement instructor. Her workshops explore the intersection between movement, emotions, and the mind. In addition to running Asheville Movement Center, Lavinia leads private lessons and workshops for all skill levels in throughout the world and online. Her writing includes several books and audio programs as well as her Kinēsa newsletter.

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Greater Flexibility

Without painful stretching and effort.

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Better Balance

It’s just a few lessons away.

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Increased sex appeal

There’s nothing sexier than a confident, relaxed person with an elegant walk and an easy smile. Trust me. And there are more perks once you get your mojo back.

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Improved mental function

While there are no guarantees that you’ll find your keys more easily, you will find you are more alert, spontaneous and clear headed.

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Happiness

Learn how to use movement to re-balance and regulate your emotions.

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single lesson downloads

Sometimes you just need an Awareness Through Movement lesson and there’s no class available. These lessons are edited audio files of some of Lavinia’s live online classes. Extraneous corrections and noises have been removed to give you a clean less.

Single Lesson Downloads are $2.99 each and in mp3 format.

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Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner

Body language expert Lavinia Plonka has helped people improve their movement, behavior, relationships and careers for over 35 years. She guides clients through connecting the dots between posture/movement, emotions and the mind. Read more