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Insights on Movement: Recent Blog Highlights
Jet Fuel for Awareness Through Movement® Lessons: Curiosity
In the last post, Learning Your Way to Wellness: It’s Not What You Think, I wrote about the difference between a couple of types of learning (intellectual vs. Immersion/experiential). I shared how my transition from pain to wellness required deep immersion learning about myself as a mover. The distinction between studying a movement and studying […]
Read MoreLearning Your Way to Wellness: It’s Not What You Think
In the last blog post, I promised we’d take a deeper look at one of the two elements that contain all the details of how I made the transition from pain to wellness using the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ. Those two elements were: Deeply embracing the fact that life is a process Becoming an awesome learner I […]
Read MoreFinding Wellness Through Holding Better Questions
After a post I wrote called, How the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ Changed One Woman’s Life, a reader, Angie, commented: “Thanks Gisele for sharing your story. It is very inspiring. I’d love to hear more about the transition from pain to wellness, details of how that happened.” [Emphasis mine] The request for the “…details of how that […]
Read MoreWalking With Grace and Ease – It’s Like Floating
In the last post, I wrote about the health benefits of walking, not the least of which was consolidating learning from Awareness Through MovementⓇ and Functional IntegrationⓇ lessons. In it, I hinted at a couple of things that make walking more graceful and effortless. Today’s post is going to quickly make those things clearer. One […]
Read MoreWalking: A Healthful Path to Simple Elegance
As a FeldenkraisⓇ practitioner, I’m often asked, “What’s the best type of exercise for me to start doing now that I’m feeling better?” I have many clients who’ve had to stop doing most of the activities they used to enjoy because of injury, pain, or illness. Once they start moving and feeling better, they want […]
Read MoreBreathing: The Key to Moving Better Instantly
“Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?” ~Mary Oliver Breathing is essential. Every inspiration, a reaffirmation of living. Every expiration, a release. You can go a long, long time without eating (on the order of weeks). A surprisingly long time without drinking (I’ve been shocked to learn just how long […]
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