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Lowering the Head
$3.99 View DetailsOne thing I love about Feldenkrais lessons is the variety of learning opportunities. This lesson explores dozens of ways of doing the same thing, without every getting boring.
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The Pelvis and Balance
$3.99 View DetailsAfter teaching this lesson one day, a student told me, "This lesson should be titled, 'Pelvis, Pelvis, Pelvis.'". It's all about how your center affects everything else - your balance, your comfort, your stance. It also happens to be one of my all time favorite lessons.
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Resting Your Eyes
$3.99 View DetailsYou can improve your eyesight while relaxing the rest of yourself. Eye strain and habitual ways of using the eyes are two ways that we limit vision AND affect our carriage. This lesson is all about finding new options for your eyes.
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Hamstrings and Hips!
$3.99 View DetailsSo many people complain about tight hamstrings without realizing that flexibility comes from the back and hip flexors. This lesson offers a few challenging moves - just remember, less is more!
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Feeling Your Wings
$3.99 View DetailsDid you know your fingers are connected to your shoulder blades? And that freedom of movement in the arms is related to your spine? This lesson spends a bit of time lying on the stomach, and challenges your arms. So take care of yourself, get pillows, move lightly and maybe you'll fly!
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Where Does My Reach Begin?
$3.99 View DetailsThis side lying lesson explores the relationship of the arm and shoulder to the spine and ribs, while also improving rotation and a fun grand finale.
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Self Hug
$3.99 View DetailsWe all need a hug sometimes. But this hug will not only offer new insights into your scapulae and ribs, but will also teach you about the joys of rotation and differentiation - two crucial abilities that are easy to lose in our sedentary culture. Plus you get a bonus "self-massage!"
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Pelvic and Shoulder Girdles
$3.99 View DetailsIn an organized skeleton, the pelvic and shoulder girdles are doing a constant dance together. This lesson looks at all the ways they interact, and how that informs the movement of your spine.This side lying lesson is delightfully easy.
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Folding and Unfolding
$3.99 View DetailsWhile the title hints at the movement, this mostly side-lying exploration of flexion and extension has a secret agenda - the ability to foresee a movement and execute it without compulsion. "If you know what you're doing, you can do what you want." Moshe Feldenkrais
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Big X
$3.99 View DetailsOne day, a student called to ask if there were lessons for migraines. Then someone else walked in complaining of back pain. Someone else said, "Ugh, you have anything for my right hip?" At a loss, I decided to stick with my lesson plan and teach this amazing lesson that looks at EVERYTHING including our self-image. To my amazement, each of these people thanked me for choosing a lesson "just for me." While this lesson begins in sitting, it is mostly on the back. Enjoy!
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How Do You Arch?
$3.99 View DetailsYogis and non-yogis alike love this unusual, stress free way to explore ways of arching the back. This lesson looks at the "wave" of movement that travels from the feet to the shoulders, how the spine responds to the foot and hand's pressure, the shoulder and hip joint relationship, and maybe, discovering new possibilities for the backbend (Yoga wheel pose)
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Pelvic Rock with Knees open
$3.99 View DetailsThe relationship of the lumbar spine and pelvis with your hip flexors is the subject of many lessons. Here we explore it directly through the simple movement of rocking.
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Lighten the Legs with your Pelvis
$3.99 View DetailsThey say you can't lose weight doing Feldenkrais :-). But Feldenkrais once said that when the system is properly organized, the impression is one of weightlessness. Paradox indeed. This lesson explores how the pelvis can lift your legs, and the second half will take you into surprising new directions. (No spoilers here!)
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Improving Diagonals
$3.99 View DetailsWhenever I teach my "top ten" series, this lesson is a must. Not only does it re-balance the two sides of the self, it harmonizes top and bottom. Oh, and let's not forget the diagonal relationship between opposite shoulders and hips. As with so many lessons, this one leads to a surprising, functional finale.
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Improved Sitting and Reaching
$3.99 View DetailsYou reach with your whole self. At least that's the potential. This mostly seated lesson reminds us that reaching for our object of desire comes from, you guess it, the pelvis. And of course, that means the spine has to get involved.
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Heels in Circles
$3.99 View DetailsWe really don't pay enough attention to our feet. Yet how your feet and ankles work affects how you stand and walk, impacting on the organization of your hips and back. This lesson looks at how a small movement of the foot can change everything.
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Freeing the Ribs Via Shoulders and Hips
$3.99 View DetailsSo often people exclaim in surprise, "My ribs are supposed to move?" The ribs connect our shoulders and arms to the spine from one end, and the pelvis and legs to the spine from the other. This side lying lesson looks at the possibilities of side bending and how that can improve flexibility and create a new appreciation for your ribs.
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A Side and Mind Bending Adventure
$3.99 View DetailsThis lesson is a perfect example of why Feldenkrais said "It's flexible brains I'm after." You will feel revitalized in body and mind after this one. Great for those who want to improve walking.
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Have a Comfortable Flight
$15.99 View DetailsNo More Achy Joints From Hours of Sitting!
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The Power of the Pelvis
$26.00 View Details4 lessons to embody the power of your pelvis.
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Unstress Through Movement
$15.99 View DetailsThree 25 minutes lessons
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The Little Book of Falling (and Getting Up)
$6.99 View DetailsNow Available in Paperback!
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Playing in the Kitchen
Lavinia Plonka offers a delightful smorgasbord of opportunities for culinary delight, going beyond standard cookbook fare to provide a feast that transcends the five senses. Your sense of taste will be tempted by the delicious recipes. In order to take the stress out of cooking, each recipe contains a Playing With Your Food Section. This […]$15.00 View Details -
Walking Your Talk
In Walking Your Talk, award-wining performer and movement teacher, Lavinia Plonka, reveals the fascinating connection between how you move and how you feel. What’s more, Plonka shows how changing our movements and body postures can be a crucial first step in altering our emotional behaviors and improving how we are seen by others. Drawing from […]$18.95 View Details -
What Are You Afraid Of?
Fear is not just in our heads – it’s also in our bodies. What Are You Afraid Of? shows how our bodily postures and habits trigger the anxieties that crimp our daily lives and provides simple, eye-opening exercises to free us from fear’s grip. We often think of fear as something based in our minds. […]$13.12 View Details -
The Breath Connection: Relax, Revitalize, Rebalance
$20.00 View DetailsRelax, Revitalize, Rebalance
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Meditating with my Hair on Fire
It’s the book you never knew you needed, the book that asks all the questions but has none of the answers to the secrets of life in this magical multiverse. Lavinia Plonka weaves together autobiographical stories with weighty philosophical questions in her uniquely hilarious way: Are aliens stealing our time? Can one find enlightenment at […]$13.00 View Details