Sonja’s Feldenkrais work was featured in this blog post on brillianceinc.com
January 21, 2011 source: Brilliance Inc.
Find a Sensei: To shed the waste more efficiently, get a partner. Great teachers come in many forms including coaches, trainers, bodyworkers, and cognitive therapists. A couple of years ago, I found the Feldenkrais method to help me relieve pain. Every week my practitioner Sonja Sutherland, also an Aikido black-belt, helps me re-educate my nervous system with what seem like simple, inconsequential, movement instructions. As I try to execute her instructions, the A-student inside me struggles to move as far as I can, putting lots of effort in. Her constant reminder is “do less.” The new movement only works if I do it without any struggle. When I insert struggle, I short-circuit the goal.
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