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“It’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark
on the things you take for granted.”
— Bertrand Russell
 
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How to Move Your Arm
How to Move Your Arm

Learning to use your arm is better than being corrected.

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Help for an Achy Back
Help for an Achy Back

Who doesn't struggle with an achy back?

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Help for Tight Hips
Help for Tight Hips

Alleviate tight hips by coordinating hip flexors and extensors in the back.

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Creativity, Memory, and Staying Young
Creativity, Memory, and Staying Young

How forgetting helps us move better.

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Help for Anxiety: Your bones will hold you up
Help for Anxiety: Your bones will hold you up

Physical support from your bones is basic to emotional security.

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Help for Sciatica
Help for Sciatica

Learn how moving in the hip and low back helps unravel sciatica.

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Keep Your Spine Flexible
Keep Your Spine Flexible

Simple moves to prevent stiffness. 

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How I help my clients: Reduce pain, life life.
How I help my clients: Reduce pain, life life.

People usually come to me with a seemingly immutable experience of stress and tension after they have tried everything else and feel desperate and in need of hope.

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CTRL-ALT-DELETE  for the nervous system
CTRL-ALT-DELETE  for the nervous system

You can have perfect biomechanics and still move with pain and inefficiency. So what helps?

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Help! There's No Meaning in This!
Help! There's No Meaning in This!

The Feldenkrais Method creates a blank slate, a neutral ground, from which we can reinvent ourselves again and again. I know this is what helped me get through difficult times.

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How to Find Easy Movement
How to Find Easy Movement

Learn to feel quality movement with these easy reference points.

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Best Mental States for Improving Comfort
Best Mental States for Improving Comfort

Tips for changing your world with five simple state shifts: Clear values, more kindness, directed attention, more play, learning to trust.

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Synapses and Sea Slugs
Synapses and Sea Slugs

How to really learn instead of just absorb information.

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The Power of Inquiry
The Power of Inquiry

For me, inquiry is at the heart of what it means to be human. As Moshe says, "One has to set about learning to learn as is befitting for the most important business in human life.”

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How to think for yourself
How to think for yourself

When you're in pain, injured, or limited for some reason, the thing you knew how to do without thinking becomes an impenetrable conundrum. What to do?

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Brain plasticity before it was cool
Brain plasticity before it was cool

To improve brain plasticity, challenge visual and spatial memory and stimulate the senses.

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Why don't you just tell me how to move?
Why don't you just tell me how to move?

If there is a right way to move, why don’t you just say so? It’s so irritating to have to figure it out for myself.

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Edward Bear goes bump
Edward Bear goes bump

Edward Bear had it right: it's not about improving how well you bump down the stairs, it's about going down the stairs in a whole new way. 

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The Point of It: Big Questions
The Point of It: Big Questions

Feldenkrais found the one tangled thread that tugged on the center of my being and started to unravel it.

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The Invasion of Back Pain
The Invasion of Back Pain

Persistent back pain gets "Maybe some physical therapy and ibuprofren.” What do do next?

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