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How long you have been a Your Learning Body (YLB) member
What super otter power do you offer the YLB Community?
Welcome,encourage someone elseRemember #togetherisbetter
Hello!
I’m Lisa, currently living in Northern Kentucky. I joined YLB to place self care backnin the forefront of my day to day activities. I’m a clinical research coordinator by day, so I sit at a deck during the day a lot. I’m looking forward to moving more consciously throughout the day! I am a dancer and always love learning about conscious movement. I’m hoping to also reduce systemic pain that crops up every now and then through this program. I’m also hoping to improve my sleep! Looking forward to this journey with everyone. 😀
I’m delighted to be here and looking forward to meeting and sharing. I’m Joyce Dicks, mother, grandmother; always learning and growing. Home is Cincinnati, Ohio. I have known and learned with Cynthia for a few years; some Feldenkrais group classes and completed Bones For Life teacher training. Once I complete all my mentoring and student teaching hours, who knows the future! Just had melanoma facial surgery with plastic reconstruction to follow next week. Best news ever – the pathology report is negative! Blessings to all!
Hmmm….Hi!
Intros In This format are not my favorite. I am more lively in person real time. So being creative and whimsical might be some of my otter super power. (Confession I am not up to speed w view of Zoom yesterday, came in late. So I don’t really know the context of otter!).How long have I been a member?? Not sure, as I have signed up and then not necessarily log in/use on a consistent basis. I’ve been around FLN for many years attending courses and trainings with Cynthia.
Who am I? That’s a great ? As I’m presently reassessing my focus and my life in my business. I’m a solo practice Physical Therapist and Feldenkrais Practitioner in Knoxville, Tennessee.
See y’all soon!
Kathy White, you have been with us since the beginning of Your Learning Body and so much more! Besides your creativity and whimsical ways, I would say your Super Otter Power that you offer the group is your liveliness!
Thank you Lisa for leading the way! You are otterific in many ways.
That is truly good news Joyce! So glad for you. And yes as a Bones for Life teacher who knows what the future holds but good stuff for sure, good stuff.
Hello Everyone!
I just joined today. I want to improve my health,
and my friend Betty-Lou Brett
highly recommended you.“What super otter power do you offer the YLB Community?”
Well, one thing I am good at – I am a technical troubleshooter.
I have been told I am a good teacher and advisor.I am happy to be here!
Hi – I joined YLB today after doing the three part program on YouTube. Feldenkris makes sense to me as my background is in child development. I like the approach of not forcing and allowing one’s body to explore.
I’m checking in today after not having any luck posting my photo. I’ll get some help with that later but mentioned it because my superpower of persistence is also my challenge. I was forcing myself to try posting my photo over and over which hurts my arm. Receptive movements, especially on the computer, inflame my neck/arm pain.
I’m good at encouraging others.
Joanne, we will need your super power!
Laura that is some great awareness. And it is true for many of us that our super power is also our weakness. Glad the approach resonates with your childhood development experience.
Greetings, everyone, from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwest Virginia.
I’m a new arrival to YLB and am looking forward (with some trepidation) to exploring, learning and growing into a brighter future with you all.
I’ve experienced a lot of trauma, especially in my early life, and I’m also a heavy person for whom some types of movements are a bit difficult. As a result, I’m also very self-conscious around others and being observed in a certain way is difficult for me.
While I’ve come a very long way and done a lot of healing and growing in many amazing & beautiful ways, it continues to be a real challenge for me to inhabit my body and I come up against a lot of internal resistance whenever things become challenging and I feel confronted by my physical limitations.
I have a pattern of avoidance that tends to keep me from engaging physically in my life through movement and exercise. My hope is that being part of a supportive community will help encourage me to keep showing up for myself and others, to keep leaning into my edges and be willing to stay with the discomfort of my trauma triggers. There’s a deep longing in me to heal my relationship with my body and finally “come home” to myself all the way.
My super otter powers include the ability to hold space for others, to listen with compassion, empathy, non-judgment and unconditional acceptance.Rainbow – Thanks so much for showing up in an authentic way. As someone who had early trauma, I have a deep respect for the process of coming home to oneself. And also learning to navigate triggers. Your super otter powers will be very helpful to our community!
Hi everyone,
I just joined YLB today and I am looking forward to everything this course has to offer.
I grew up in Germany, now live in Petaluma, Northern California and have been doing Feldenkrais for sometime.
Having a “bad” hip to the point that I wasn’t able to straighten out my leg, walk “crooked” all the time, painful etc.
I like my doctor, but his respond was, do the best you can, and basically, when you can’t walk to the grocery store anymore, it’s time to replace the hip. I just didn’t buy it, honestly it made me a bit angry, really?
I understand I have a bad hip, but my hip is only a part of my body, so may be if all the other parts of my
body move better, may be that “bad” hip is not such a big deal???
My girlfriend, a physical therapist suggested Feldenkrais. I really didn’t understand the classes for a long time, but I stuck with it (just new I was in the right place) and now,I move so much more freely, rarely any pain.
My newest success, I can even lay on my stomach for a few minutes without pain.I just turned sixty, want to work a bit less and spend more time “hiking”.
Sooo, what if I get a bit more serious about Feldenkrais, may be I am able to do some longer hikes? This is why I signed up.My super otter power? Not sure, I guess we’ll find out?
I know I am very persistent, just don’t give up. Also, limitations or not, I like to have fun.See you tomorrow!
Yes thanks for jumping in even w trepidation Rainbow! I am sure we will have lots to go around in time!
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