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Glad you found you way to this Pat. Always a pleasure to connect with you.
Milos that is wonderful background in human movement. I was pleased to see you were able to come today live.
Welcome Trina from Tasmania. This might be the first person I know from Tasmania 🙂
Margrit – You are clearly an explorer and what to give your body the best chance to heal more naturally. Here’s to hiking.
Hello from the beach in Lewes, Delaware. Originally from New Jersey, but retired here 2 years ago after running a martial arts school for 45 years.
Started Feldenkrais lessons many years ago to keep my back healthy (scoliosis).but discovered it can do so much more.
Joined FutureLifeNow a bit ago, but was not consistent. Looking forward to being a part of a group, learning and moving.
Recovering from knee replacement that was much smother because I prepped with Feldenkrais.
I have taken a lot of classes and seminars in New York and three trainings with Ruthy Alon. I discovered there is always something new to learn. My Other Power is stubborness.Hello, I am a creative arts educator/dancer/musician/OTA. I live in beautiful Ipswich, Ma. where I teach music and movement to little children around the Boston area and run “Arts All Day” summer arts camp in Cambridge. Long ago I had CIPD (now in remission?), it spread through my body for 20 years. As a dancer I was fascinated that while continuing my daily teaching and dancing along with working with Joe Gifford and Josef Dellagrotte, I was able to regain much of my muscle function affected by the demylinating disease,(which was somewhat surprising to the neurologist, mid-70’s). Then came the brain research saying we can build new neuro pathways, taking me into reflex integration, brain gym and other integrative methods that I incorporate into movement and music activities for young developing people. The day I signed up for this course I realized that I have spent much of my life trying to keep my feet off the ground. After years of practicing varied movement techniques, I am returning to Feldenkrais to find renewed patterns of movement to replace old compensatory ones. I often say, it always comes back to Feldenkrais, so here I am. I am especially interested how emotional trauma relates to body pains and illness. Looking forward to being here.
Hi Everyone
I’m Katy and I live in England. I have had a life of injuries since age 10 when I fractured my lumbar in a fall of about 12 feet. Then at age 12 I was diagnosed with scoliosis. I have spent a lot of time since I was little recovering and getting stronger from one thing or another, so I suppose figuring out how to heal and exercising became part of me. I have injured most joints, mainly through horse and car accidents, and got very ill from that stress for many years, but eventually I got recovery down pat and brought my health back!
I decided about 6 years ago that yoga was the one exercise that I could still do and generally feel better doing, so I decided to go train. Years of training later (!) – I am teaching mainly Yoga for Scoliosis and Back Care, plus meditation and iRest Yoga Nidra. I am also still working on the original body – mine!, but in the last few months I have reduced my chronic pain to zero. Not getting enough sleep is my main enemy.
I have read a little bit about Feldenkrais and realised that what I do for my body in my daily practice (a felt sense movement) seemed to be very like what I thought Feldenkrais seemed to be. So I thought I should find out more! Happy to be here and looking forward to getting started. (Joined on the weekend.) I definitely am curious by nature, and I am working on my super-power…Hi There,
Libby here from Charlotte NC. I’m a brand new member YLB and excited to be here.
I love Bones for Life and the Feldenkrais Method. I’m glad to be a part of this online community with so many life long learners.I’d like to expand my body awareness and feel that this space will help me be more accountable for getting on the floor everyday.
My super power is empathy.
Great to meet you all and I look forward to exploring our common threads.
Hello, I’m Lorraine from Indiana! I’m excited to join YLB and learn. I teach Pilates and met Cynthia at the Gait For Wild Human Potential workshop. I’m excited to learn for myself and share with my clients.
Hello, I am from Indiana, was introduced to my first Feldenkrais class in 1993, just after graduating from PT school. Then was reintroduced through Bones for Life and Cynthia Allen. Now, enrolling in YLB, I think the 2nd time, though this time I am going to do the lessons and deepen my practice and connection with others doing this intention to draw ourselves into this learning about ourselves and encouraging each other. I have pain, stiffness and distract myself by helping others all day. Then arrive at end of day fatigued and want to rest, though sleep is disrupted by tired body. I am hoping to find balance and continue to be able to thrive well. My super otter power: never giving up and always searching.
Greetings!
I am Lori and I live in Bedford, PA. I graduated from Baltimore4 Feldenkrais program in 2016. I am an avid equestrian and have been teaching and training for nearly 40 years! I continually utilize the Feldenkrais work with my students and the horses. I also have a small private Feldenkrais practice out of my home. I am new to YLB. I am pretty isolated from other Feldies in my area. I like having a program to follow, in terms of keeping my own learning going. When left to my own devices, I tend to procrastinate! I am hoping that YLB will not only benefit me personally, but improve my work with others.
I did not get a chance to attend Friday’s session, and it’s not available for replay yet. However, based on reading other introductions, I would say my super power is being curious and yearning for new learning.Hi,
I’m Robert, an American living in Taiwan. A couple of years ago the New York Times’
“Personal Health’ column ran a piece on the Feldenkrais Method and it sounded like something
I should try. Since then I’ve been working with whatever I can find online, Youtube clips, etc.
Looking forward to meeting you all and working through the YLB courses!Hello all, I’m Roberta Miles (aka Roberta Gary), retired six years now from teaching organ at CCM for 46 years. I’ve known Cynthia for many years, and benefitted greatly from her classes and private lessons in the past. Now 87 years old, I’m still engaged in musical pursuits, (playing the harpsichord as well as the organ), and doing a little teaching and coaching of other musicians. Physically speaking, I suffered a mild case of polio in my right leg at age 7, and about 10 years ago I fractured right tibia/fibula, right hip joint, right humerus, all as a result of falls. I now use a rollator, a four-wheeled type of walker, to prevent further falls as well as to help me continue to be as active as I can. A PT visits every two weeks, and is helping me maintain/increase muscular strength in my legs. I’ve always been interested in “how the body moves”, through studying with an Alexander Technique teacher, and have contributed (along with my husband), to a book called “What every Pianist needs to know about the Body”. I’m looking forward to guidance in bringing my attention back to what’s going in my body, as I enter this next phase of life!
Hello All, I’ve been struggling to get my photo downloaded so hopefully it will appear with this post. I am new to YLB, but not new to Feldenkrais. I have spend the last year and a half doing FIs and ATMs. I am happy to report I am pain free for the most part with some discomfort at times. This is after over a year in 24/7 pain with hip/butt issues and with recommendations from MD’s to get my hip replaced. I chose the Feldenkrais path instead and glad for it. I’m hoping to return to a more active life of golf and tennis, but even if not, I have improved the quality of my life. So I believe in Larry’s phrase of “keep moving forward”.
What keeps me motivated is learning. I have spent my professional life as a psychologist and psychoanalyst always studying the mind. Now I’m learning about my body and it’s connection to my psyche. It is exciting for me. I’m now retired, but still growing and learning. I know this is called “Your Learning Body”, but I also think of my body as my Teaching body as my body teaches my nervous system how to function in a pain free way.
I look forward to this continued learning. Ken
Dear Katy,
as a decades long insomniac of the severest kind they ever had in hospital, and now beginning to sleep much much better, I want to encourage you to use Feldenkrais – it’s structure is perfectly deescalating habitual arousal.(Sometimes psychotherapy is also useful.) And: try out hemp seed oil. It’s not affecting the mind like the drug, but very healthy. 4-5 drops of so called : CBD-Oil 5% afternoon, and again maybe 1hour before bedtime, helps to finds restful state of being, especially when extra stressors are on.
Vitamin B6 and Passionflower could be added.;)
Sleep is so needed, and wonderful when on.Feldenkrais has made my lying on ground or bed a really delicious experience. So unlikely. But it happened.:))
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