Training Systems For Optimal Postural Re-education

The Imposter Syndrome

Does this sound a familiar headspace to you? It can affect anyone at any time and this inner saboteur sits across all types of personalities and professions. What strategies do we utilise with Movement Intelligence? We use somatic tools and witnessing. Previewing and expanding our spacial orientation with skeletal grounding. We use rhythm (bouncing on our heels), finding our organic pace of breath and being able to sense both our inner and outer environment simultaneously. Co

The Imposter Syndrome

Testimonial - Somatic Core Stability.

The effectiveness of Core Stability & Somatic Work.

Below is a testimonial of the stabilising core work that I am playing with. I use the intra abdominal stabilising work of Julie Peck and incorporate the sphincter work of Ruthy Alon and Paula Carbourg. Also, I have made my own creative adaptations from having severe pelvic instability, stress incontinence and surgical resection. It took me over a decade of self exploration and with my students, to find the system of somatic work that I use today. It is so wonderful to see

The effectiveness of Core Stability & Somatic Work.

Will practising a skill in your head make you better at it.

I found this article on Feldenkrais Practitioners Around the World facebook group. Deborah Lotus wrote this and I thought it was too good not to share on this forum. Moshe told us in San Francisco. As he used the word "imagine", he would sometimes substitute "Inner Eye", or "Image of Achievement" (Pribram's term, slightly different). He wanted to explain that you can't "image" something in your head" accurately, unless you have actually done it. So, you could not imagine your

LOST ART OF BENDING OVER: HOW OTHER CULTURES SPARE THEIR SPINE

I pulled this article from a facebook group School for F.M. Alexander Studies. Ria Soemardjo posted this beautiful post. Which so aptly describes how we have lost our capacity to bend over from the hip joints in our culture. This morning in our local class we were playing with the wave response and the reciprocal connection between the two curves of the lumbar and neck. Pressing and pulling with the feet, doing a pelvic clock, initiated from the feet. Then introduced wide

LOST ART OF BENDING OVER: HOW OTHER CULTURES SPARE THEIR SPINE

Why Most Doctors Are Dead Wrong About Osteoporosis

An article in Wakeup-world.com February 15th, 2018 By Sayer Ji wakeup-world.com/2018/02/15/why-most-doctors-are-dead-wrong-about-osteoporosis/ February 15th, 2018 By Sayer Ji Contributing writer for Wake Up World What if everything your doctor told you about osteoporosis and osteopenia was wrong? What if osteoporosis was not the primary cause of fractures in aging populations? What if both the definitions of osteoporosis and osteopenia used to justify pharmaceutical treat

Why Most Doctors Are Dead Wrong About Osteoporosis

Why it's important for all of us to fail

FEBRUARY 3 2018 - written by Ray Steinwall Here is an article I found in this weekends Melbourne Age newspaper. The author is Ray Steinwall. I like the content but I think it is worthwhile here to talk about failure and organic learning in the somatic fields. Failure is a large component of the Movement Intelligence program and is one of the foundational components of somatic learning. A baby learns learns organically by exploring their environment through movement, they ma

Why it's important for all of us to fail

Demystifying Osteoarthritis and it’s Billion Dollar Industry.

Here is a wonderful article that Kim Wise from Coffs Harbour wrote a few years back. It is well work worth a read. Imagine if there were an obvious (yet elusive) and simple solution to osteoarthritis. That osteoarthritis is not a disease but more an end result or process of states of dis -ease of the whole being while doing. If we ever are to have an intimate awareness of our skeleton in the field of gravity osteoarthritis would become extinct would it not? How could that b

Demystifying Osteoarthritis and it’s Billion Dollar Industry.

The New York Times - by Christopher F. Schuetzejan Feb 2018.

LEUSDEN, Netherlands — The shouts of schoolchildren playing outside echoed through the gymnasium where an obstacle course was being set up. There was the “Belgian sidewalk,” a wooden contraption designed to simulate loose tiles; a “sloping slope,” ramps angled at an ankle-unfriendly 45 degrees; and others like “the slalom” and “the pirouette.” They were not for the children, though, but for a class where the students ranged in age from 65 to 94. The obstacle course was clinic

The New York Times - by Christopher F. Schuetzejan Feb 2018.

The $100 Billion per year Back Pain Industry is Mostly a Hoax.

I pulled this article off Cynthia Allen's post on Better Back Facebook group. I just love this link from Cynthia's Facebook page. One thing the article does not mention is that opioid use also relates to anxiety. Of course anxiety often comes with the same territory as back pain. But sometimes, anxiety can stem from a generalised anxiety disorder without back pain and opioids help to turn off the discomfort of physical sensations that come with high levels of anxiety. Here

The $100 Billion per year Back Pain Industry is Mostly a Hoax.

Wearing High Heels v Flat Shoes.

I pulled these stills from a short video in Spanish. I like these images which clearly show how high heels damage not only the bones in your feet, but also higher up in the body. I find it hard to believe when women have told me that their "high heels really comfortable". The achilles actually shorten permanently when heels are worn all the time. Feet are extremely adaptable and love the feedback from wearing different shoes and walking bare foot. Feet enjoy walking on di

Wearing High Heels v Flat Shoes.

How back MRI results are misleading you

I have attached a wonderful article written by one of my colleagues Cynthia Allen, it is so worth sharing. https://futurelifenow-online.com/back-mri-results-maybe-misleading/ Future Life Now On-Line In Back Pain, feldenkrais by Cynthia Allen November 7, 2017 And Why It's Important to Know by Cynthia Allen, GCFP, STMI If you see this image below and it scares you, you aren't alone. If you have been looking at your MRI results and getting depressed thinking there is no hope, I

How back MRI results are misleading you

The New York Times

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 li

The New York Times

Breathing

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

Breathing

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais - Memories of a Remarkable Man.

HOW MOSHE FELDENKRAIS REMINDS ME THAT LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE BY ILONA FRIED March 07, 2017 I lived 46 years before learning about one of the most fascinating and inspiring figures of the 20th century. Moshe Pinchas Feldenkrais, born in 1904 in what is now Ukraine, descended from Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz, one of the pre-eminent followers of the Ba’al Shem Tov, the founder of the Hassidic movement. After growing up in a religious household in a climate hostile to Jews, Feldenkrais

Demystifying Osteoarthritis and it’s Billion Dollar Industry.

I am posting a wonderful article written by Kim Wise, 8th April, 2016. Imagine if there were an obvious (yet elusive) and simple solution to osteoarthritis. That osteoarthritis is not a disease but more an end result or process of states of dis -ease of the whole being while doing.If we ever are to have an intimate awareness of our skeleton in the field of gravity osteoarthritis would become extinct would it not? How could that be so? If one bone knew intimately how to artic

Demystifying Osteoarthritis and it’s Billion Dollar Industry.

A Warm and Friendly Home

Australian Yoga Journal interview with Jennifer Groves

To stretch or not too stretch

Stop Stretching Stretching is perhaps one of the most controversial fitness subjects of present day. Passionate debates arise between those who perceive the benefits of stretching and those, like me, who think stretching is one of the worst activities you can partake in, especially if you’re already injured. It’s a tradition that’s hard to break because so many of us have the stretching necessity ingrained in our heads as we’ve listened to coaches, trainers, professional athl

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