What’s Functional Integration Good for?
I wrote this as a response to a post that Cynthia Allen wrote on Facebook a while back, asking folks what the Feldenkrais Method® helped them do better in their…
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What Kind of Shape Do You Make When You’re Mad?
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Deepen, Integrate, Assimilate — Tahoe Feldenkrais Retreat 2020
Come join us for a weekend full of Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement® in which we will explore how Moshe’s components of self-image — sensing, feeling, thinking, and acting — intertwine…
My Article Honoring Stanley Keleman Just Published
It was a privilege to write an article for the International Body Psychotherapy Journal in honor and memory of Stanley Keleman, founder of Formative Psychology®. Stanley was an ongoing, big…
“You Can’t Get There From Not Here” — R. Moon Sensei
In life and learning it is easy to focus on external goals that we wish to achieve. As educators, teachers often “chunk it down” for their students with subgoals to…
Tahoe Retreat — Friday, May 18 – Sunday, May 20, 2018
Gentle Strength: Creating Inner Ease and Forming a Kind Path Forward in the Face of Challenge Nature is powerful. This workshop will delve into how you approach and relate to…
What Kind of Shape do You Make When You’re Mad? A Body-based Approach to Social-Emotional Learning — Thursday, March 22nd 6 – 7:30pm at TBS
This workshop introduces a somatic approach to helping children recognize and influence their attitudes, emotions, and behavior — not just when they are mad, but whatever body shape they make.
The presentation will include illustrations and visual teaching aids interspersed with movement explorations and easy-to-do practices to facilitate experiential learning and understanding. If you are part of EBISA and want to come, please sign up through this link. If you are not part of EBISA and want to attend, please contact me directly. The workshop will be held at The Berkeley School, 1310 University Ave in Berkeley. Pre-registration required.
Shaping Expression, Influencing Experience
Inside each of us, our heart beats, chest and lungs breathe, belly digests, fluids flow, our brain and all our other organs pulse — even our tissues and cells pulse.…
Me and We
The “We” in Me and the “Me” in We Each of us begins our life journey when two cells join together to make a unique cell that I call “Me”. This…
Creating a Group Zone
Creating a Group Zone The synergy of the whole group moving and learning together creates a powerful learning potential. Right from the beginning of the school year, we create our…