Perspective is Everything

More movement and more choice always exists, unless you're dead which, if you're reading this, you are not.

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Three Simple Ways to Mobilize the Spine with Free Audio

Who doesn't struggle with an achy back? No matter how you struggle or what you do, try this.

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There's Knowing and There's Knowing

An intellectual understanding of mechanics does not improve movement.

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Does Creativity Decline with Age?

Creativity doesn't have to slow as we age.

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Where's Your Inner Compass?

How physical support is basic to emotional security.

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How to improve movement by sensing, testing, and sensing again

How we live each day is how we live our lives.

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Five ways to lengthen the hamstrings

Hamstrings are tricky, mostly because we don't understand how interdependent they are with the back and hips.

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From Body-oriented Psychotherapies to Feldenkrais

by Yvan Joly, psychotherapist and Feldenkrais trainer®
How Feldenkrais helps us evolve into secure beings and resolve conflict.

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Changing focus

Nicolaus Copernicus presented a new way of seeing by putting the sun at the center of the solar system.

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Reclaiming your inner authority

One of my favorite words is autodidact: a self-taught person. It means one is curious, interested, and alive.

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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 1970 Nobel Lecture

But all the irrationality of art, its dazzling turns, its unpredictable discoveries, its shattering influence on human beings – they are too full of magic to be exhausted by this artist’s vision of the world.

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Richard Feynman: What is science?

Under these circumstances of the difficulty of the subject, and my dislike of philosophical exposition, I will present it in a very unusual way. I am just going to tell you how I learned what science is.

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Four steps to transform habits

In neurobiology, learning involves changing the brain, but lasting transformation depends on how well we treat ourselves.

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I didn't know I could do that!

I never thought I could do a judo roll, a back flip, a head stand, or even swing my legs overhead. Not me, I could barely move!

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Personal Change Does Not Come Easily

I procrastinate, putter around the house, water plants, respond to emails, make another cup of coffee.

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Basic Jaw Release

Relax and soften the jaw and face.

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Yield to the floor and soften the back

I love the weight-shift lessons, but I didn't used to as I tried to muscle through a stiff back. Over time, I realized that it's only by softening first that we get stronger.

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