"A smile will gain you ten more years of life." -Chinese Proverb For the Chinese and many Asians around the world, we get to celebrate another new year on February 1. If you have already broken your new year’s resolutions, you now have another chance. It will be the year of the Tiger. A [...]
2020 will be an unforgettable year despite how hard you want to erase it from your memory. Here is my list of the best and worst of 2020. Worst of 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. It has been my first, and I hope my last. This pandemic resulted in lost lives, lost jobs, lost businesses, loss [...]
For some of you who have been waiting for my next workshop, I apologize for the delay. Unexpected personal and professional changes required my immediate attention. As well, being in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought much uncertainty and unwelcomed change. Many businesses closed their doors to the public to keep everyone safe. [...]
“Our only security is our ability to change.” ~John Lilly I recently participated in the Move Better, Feel Better Feldenkrais® Awareness Summit. Due to COVID-19, this international online summit had 24 000 participants. Staffan Elgelid, one of the opening speakers shared his definition on the Feldenkrais Method®. “The Feldenkrais Method® has a robustness and biological [...]
“It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow and are set free, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own. “ ~Joyce Carol Oates “Life is not very sweet without freedom of choice.” ~ Moshe Feldenkrais In Kingston, we have been self-isolating for 4 weeks. Each week [...]
“You can’t do what you want until you know what you are doing.” Moshe Feldenkrais We want to feel better soon. The pain in your back, leg, arm, jaw, is frustrating as it continues to slow you down. You go to various health professionals, take medication, rest, and still the pain returns. You want better [...]
The Feldenkrais Method® was created by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), physicist, engineer, researcher, Judo master, and author. Due to a chronic knee injury from playing soccer, he applied his knowledge of physics, body mechanics, martial arts, neurology, learning theory and psychology to create this method. Here are the main Feldenkrais® principles: Small and slow By [...]
“Curiosity. It keeps us moving forward, exploring, experimenting, opening new doors.” – Walt Disney As we usher in the New Year, many of us make New Year’s resolutions. Lose weight, exercise more, get more sleep, and eat healthier. We have specific, ambitious goals we want to reach that will make us feel better about ourselves [...]
Let all of these be your guide this holiday season"- Shutterfly “Sparkle, shimmer and shine with joy.” –fynesdesigns.com “The joy of brightening other lives, bearing, each other’s burdens, easing others loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” –W.C. Jones “When you choose joy, you [...]
"The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety."— Josh Waitzkin Norman Doidge discusses how when we stop using a skill we lose it. When we were young, we [...]
