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Medical Mis-Adventures
Living with PD has made me understand that no matter how well you’ve managed health with good nutrition, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, homeopathy, or other wellness alternatives, you may one day require the assistance of mainstream medicine.
Support for Heart Opening
Your own experience tells you that opening can be sustained only in the presence of support. Balancing your alignment with gravity with awareness of normal joint function affords strength without effort, openness without defense, support without closure. Within your mountain is a beating, breathing heart.
Aging gracefully, or else...
Once you understand what the dysfunctional habit is trying to accomplish, then you can begin replacing it with a better habit that will serve the same purpose,
Patellafemoral Syndrome
Best of all, I’ve had fleeting moments of sensing something new and important about my stance in the world.
Notes on Coaching Movement, Part Two
For this journey you need a theory, a map that tells you where you are with the client and keeps you from getting lost. And you need a portmanteau of techniques—exercises, meditations, experiments, explorations—ways to help your client become at ease with unfamiliar terrain of herself. In this post I’m sharing my map.
Notes on Coaching Movement, Part 1
A deeper level of somatic education can lead to lasting change in the way someone inhabits their body. This approach invites the client to become aware of their habitual movements and to explore sensations that stimulate new movement behaviors.
Posture and Your Pelvis
The highly mobile hip joints combined with plasticity between sacrum and ilia, offer the body a dynamic relationship between the spine and the ground.
Touching into Presence Podcast
Wide-ranging conversation about tensegrity, Rolf Movement®, and the principles of Rolfing Structural Integration.
Somatic Gratitude
It’s easy to distinguish the feeling of gratitude from that of disappointment. But how do the sensations of gratitude differ from those of happiness, love, or relief? Could I find a way to more fully embody my thanksgiving?
Tensegrity in Daily Life
Your “perceptual tensegrity” can improve your balance when you practice yoga. It can activate your core in Pilates. It can keep you from tripping when you walk down the street. Because awareness of space outside the body creates more space inside the body. One result is that your muscles are then arrayed to best advantage for efficient coordination.
Mandible, Maxillae, Molars and Movement
Jaw tension can be an unrecognized source of upper neck stiffness and pain. This post suggests a way to release your jaw by meditating on your molars.
SOMATIC DOLDRUMS
No two people with Parkinson’s Disease experience the same array of symptoms, but I think I can safely generalize that it’s no longer possible for any of us to take movement for granted.
Standing Up with PD
An online presentation to my local Parkinson’s Disease support group. There’s information in it that’s useful for anyone, not just people living with PD.
Music and Motor Sequencing
I had stumbled upon the basis for music therapy. The AirPods give me the experience of being inside the music which is different from just listening to it —although that’s helpful too