What’s so extraordinary about a 50 year old woman who published her first novel? The opera singer who changes her career to take over the family farm?
Maybe I’ve been out of the mainstream, surrounded by creative, curious explorers for so long, that what is commonplace in my world is extraordinary ‘out there.’ Maybe living Awareness Through Movement has something to do with it. Every class starts something exciting and new.
Read MoreScience Nerd Fun Facts: It’s never too late to begin moving. Once-trained muscles respond quickly to renewed effort. And moving freely and without constraint enables creativity.
Read More“Hope lies with the disciplined nonconformists…” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“[The Status Quo] changes when someone decides that the way things are around here needs to change, and simply and bravely begins to do something differently.” Seth Godin
“Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.” — Moshe Feldenkrais
Read MoreThe Grand Horizontals - 5 - Center Like A Blue Ribbon Equestrian
In dance, it’s called ‘the frame.” For riders, it’s ‘the Seat.” It’s about maintaining the core alignment as the torso/spine react to movement in the lower body. About letting the ribs and spine manage the relationships between the collar bones and pelvis to prevent tipping and losing balance. This lesson hones in on the connections between same side and opposite corner collar bones and hips for elegant posture and balance.
Read MoreThe Grand Horizontals -5 - Circle Like Serena
Arm circles are a part of daily life - from reaching into the back seat of the car to reaching that can on the top shelf. If you do stick sports like golf, tennis, softball, kayaking, etc. this lesson will enrich your practice. That motion - the reach, the turn, the twist, the spring-like action of the ribs - is what we are going for in this Awareness Through Movement lesson. With slow, careful attention paid so no rotator cuffs are harmed in the process.
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Read MoreFlourishing is the other side of the ‘meh’ of winter, isolation, no live music, that many of us feel at the moment. In Awareness Through Movement lessons, we follow the science and to take the path from ‘meh’ to flourishing: note progress after a lesson, savor the results of the learning, feel gratitude for our bodies, share the joy of embodiment, connect with self and others, find purpose in daily routines and be curious!
Read MoreThe Grand Horizontals - 4 - Swing Like A WPGA Pro
Some movements require the power and grace of the torso moving as a flexible, but connected, whole. This Awareness Through Movement® lesson riffs on a classic lesson designed to strengthen and release the spine, with an emphasis on the collar bones as the line that holds the entire shoulder girdle together.
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Read MoreThe Grand Horizontals - 3 - Reach Like A WNBA Star
For maximum extension from tip toe to finger tip, the collar bones (clavicles, “beauty bones”, “Grand Horizontals”) synergize with the hips and ribs. As useful for reaching that thing on the top shelf as winning a tip off.
(A variation of the classic 3-way hip lesson).
The Grand Horizontals - 2 - Glide Like a Classical Violinist: a side lying lesson to move the ‘beauty bones,’ shoulder blades and hips in coordination and grace.
Read MoreCollarbones, also known as the Grand Horizontals or Beauty Bones, say everything about your posture and alignment. Get yours flexing.
Read MoreDr. Andrew Huberman, Stanford Medical School, draws on the brain science to create an effective gratitude practice. A gratitude journal is nice, but repeating a story about receiving gratitude shifts your brain and body’s neural circuitry more potently than lists. Remember a situation, how it was resolved and who received the gratitude. Take a minute a few times a week to retell the story of receiving gratitude and deepen the groove to your gratitude center.
Read MoreIn “Finding Your Voice” on Seth’s blog, Seth suggests we practice using our voice so we are ready to speak with ease. Yet another reason to do ATM - with sound.
Read MoreGood news: the 2021 California Monarch count is up from 2020 - 100,000 and counting (up from 2000)
Read MoreScreen time is elongating your eyes, possibly leading to eye disease. “Seeing Cleary” exercises can help balance your eye health.
Read MoreMy sister comes out of her COVID and Breast Cancer cocoon, and wins $1500. New career as game show contestant? In LA, anything is possible.
Read MoreBack in the ‘80s, my dad learned to live with chronic back pain, thanks to Dr. John Sarno. Dr. Sarno’s mind-body approach to living with chronic pain is being validated by research, as told in a recent Washington Post article.
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