I found this article on Feldenkrais Practitioners Around the World facebook group. The phenomena presented in this article, you will find in the Movement Intelligence Bones for Life programs. Trying the Feldenkrais Method for Chronic Pain Personal Health By JANE E. BRODY OCT. 30, 2017 After two hour, long sessions focused first on body awareness and then on movement retraining at the Feldenkrais Institute of New York, I understood what it meant to experience an incredible lightness of being. Having, temporarily at least, released the muscle tension that aggravates my back and hip pain, I felt like I was walking on air. I had long refrained from writing about this method of countering pain b
BREATHING. During my morning chi gong, today I discovered ‘dynamic breathing’ – just suddenly became aware of it: how my breathing moves my entire body, particularly the opening / expanding and returning to rest of my ribcage and sternum, the pelvis, the shoulders, head and neck, hips through knees, ankles, feet, diaphragm, pelvic floor – a very gentle wave coming from within, from the act of breathing. This makes standing an active, dynamic experience. I have become aware of this before, lying flat on the floor, but this is the first time I’ve truly become aware of it while standing – in gravity. My breathing creates a dance, very gentle and subtle, between the challenge of gravity and the
Here you see the students doing the Bones for Life "Tantrum" process in the October Bones for Life training Mullumbimby. #Workshop #MovementIntelligence #BonesForLife #movement #Rhythm
Cathryn McCormick demonstrates so beautifully the Bones for Life "Tantrum" process in the Mullumbimby training. #Workshop #Trainings #MovementIntelligence #BonesForLife #MullumbimbyClasses
Lorraine Brown demonstrates her adaptation of the Bones for Life process "The Tantrum" in the Mullumbimby Bones for Life October training 2017. #Workshop #Trainings #MullumbimbyClasses #BonesForLife #MovementIntelligence
"The Wrap" is used an exo-skeleton to support the body to stabilize and move with ease. #Workshop #MovementIntelligence #BonesForLife #Posture
Here you can see different variations working with the Bones for Life wrap. This "loan of integration" gives clear somatic signals for postural integration. The wrap has a stabilizing, yet softening affect for recruiting tone or softening high tone and is a wonderful agent for recruiting core stability. #Workshop #MovementIntelligence #Posture #WalkForLife #movement
I just taught a Sphincter workshop this weekend, there was one male in the group amongst a mixed age group of females ranging from middle 20’s to late 60’s. Students gave me their feedback, they were all so good that I have included them all. It was such a joy to teach this group, they were responsive, their enquiry was deep and their questions were thoughtful. They explored, they listened and developed more awareness of their own bodies. Exploring the sphincters is such potent work. For myself personally, the sphincters have supported me in so many ways from recovering after post abdominal surgery, birthing, core stability, pelvic control and strength and finally for reducing high tone an
