Helen is a young woman who has a sedentary job and loves horse riding. Years ago, her riding instructor recommended Helen come to a Feldenkrais® class because it complements and informs the horse-riding practice so well. But it was not until Helen had a serious knee injury (torn cartilage that ultimately required surgery) that she started working with a Feldenkrais® practitioner individually and in a class.
Read MoreMarch is Endometriosis Awareness Month. And it is nearly a year that I’ve been supporting women living with endo and trying to get the best information I can.
This is the list of my favourite resources at the moment – something I watched, listened to or read myself and selected as "recommended" without a doubt.
Read MoreTere sat in my room and I was hearing the words “insomnia”, “fibromyalgia” and “chronic fatigue syndrome”. But the most frequent word was “PAIN”. The pain was dominating her and governing about 60% of her life. She was taken care of by her doctors and taking a handful of medications that she didn’t always appreciate the side effects of.
Read MoreEvery time I tend to my garden, I think about how gardening can be made easier, and how the principles of the Feldenkrais Method® can be applied to this. So, I thought I’d share.
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, I saw J. who had complaints of pelvic pain: her pain originally started on the right side, but now is affecting both sides, and on the left, it even goes down her leg.
Read MoreI must confess I used to think of “endo” as a condition where the pain that comes from the tissues and therefore not too much could be done about it, except for, perhaps, some relaxation techniques for the pelvic area.
I was so, so wrong!
Read MoreDo you know borsch? The beetroot, cabbage and tomato soup from Ukraine and Russia?
Pain is like a borsch: real, complex and very personal.
Read MoreI had beautiful midwives and my mum was around to help with no. 2 and no. 3, but it took me a few more years, a Feldenkrais® professional training program and putting together and teaching a few Pelvic Floor workshops and courses to figure out how my postpartum care was supposed to be in the ideal world ….
Read MoreThis is the worldwide Continence Awareness Week, and here I speak about how no any leak is normal, how sport activities impact teenage girls’ pelvic health, and how we need start thinking beyond “kegels”.
Read MoreSince I remember myself I’ve been fascinated by the ways we use our language(s) and how our personality and culture transpire through but also are influenced by those ways. …
Read MoreThis week I faced an opinion that the Feldenkrais® lessons are for old people, like some kind of geriatric gymnastics. Is it true?
Surely, the ex-Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion was in his 60s when Moshe Feldenkrais taught him to stand on his (Ben-Gurion's) head.
But does it mean we have to wait for that long or to become a Prime Minister before we start taking care of ourselves?
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