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Stella – I am so pleased that you introduced and shared some of yourself. And that you are making this a priority!
Hi everyone. I think I tried to do this before but couldn’t figure out how to add a photo. It took me days to get a photo onto my profile and I don’t understand why we can’t just use that for all purposes on the site, but I am clearly not a techie. I missed the second and third sessions and will miss tomorrow as well, which I am sorry about, but this is a busy time, both because of the holidays and because I am having a lot of doctors appointments. Ugh!
I am retired and live in Reston, VA, a suburb of Washington, DC. My husband passed away 30 years ago so I’ve had a lot of time living on my own. Thank goodness for my women friends! I have been taking a weekly Feldendrais class locally for about a year and am hoping through this course to get a daily practice going. I am in two book clubs and enjoy movies and our local theater scene (from a seat in the audience, not on the stage!). Volunteer activities include serving as a member of my HOA Board of Directors and helping out with library sales. Look forward to this experience.
Sorry for your frustration Jean. We have tutorials being issued today. But your picture looks marvelous darling, marvelous! Glad to hear of your friends and full life.
My name is Kristen Barker. I’m from Cincinnati and I am super happy to be a part of this group. I’m a 42-year-old mother of a resilient child with special needs. I’m an executive director of a local non-profit. I’m passionate about what I do. And I am very grateful for my life. At the same time, I have a long-term habit of filling my life to the brim, putting others needs before my own, and working my self to the bone. I have an unfortunate habit of ignoring my body until it makes itself really known through significant pain, atrial fibrillation, acute illness, etc. I want to learn how to pay attention to my body, my needs, my whole self in a daily way and integrate habits of conscious movement. I don’t what my body to have to resort to such lengths to get my attention. My otter power is joy and laughter 🙂
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Sorry! It took me a while to update my profile and introduce myself. I am not new to the Feldenkrais Method, I have been doing it for a number of years but there is SO MUCH to learn. I am new to YLB and want to start from the beginning and move forward. It will be hard for me to join the group during the live sessions because I work full time but I plan to do the lessons when they are uploaded. I live in Maryland, very near Washington DC
Thanks Natalie for the introduction. Glad to have you with your Feldenkrais experience! The live replays can be found by clicking on the Live Events icon on the main dashboard.
@Kristen Barker. So nice to have you hear. And what a great place to learn to take of yourself instead of waiting until your body says enough. And otter power of joy and laughter! We all need that.
Hi everyone,
I live in rural France and am a shiatsu practitioner, I am also a qigong teacher, but I really like add as much movement awareness as possible to the classes, so that the participants really learn to listen to their bodies and learn from their bodies.
I came across feldenkrais through shiatsu classes, and then a couple of years ago, looking for material for my classes. I love it so much and I feel so enriched myself through this practice. I really hope to continue connecting the three practices through the somatic intelligence aspects of them all, which is so much what feldenkrais is about.
I have also lived through much trauma in my youth, which has been the biggest impulse in just about every choice I have made. Thankfully I am really getting to a place where I can look at the trauma, and the disastrous choices that the original trauma led me to make, from the outside. And I am now in a position to be helping others.
So happy to be on this forum. So happy to have the opportunity to check out your teachings in greater depth Cynthia.
My super otter power is a deep inner joy in the face of it all.
Hi, I’m Sherren. I live on the coast right at the bottom tip of Africa, so that’s about a 7 hour time difference.
I came across Feldenkrais within the last year – it resonated strongly to something within me. I signed up for the Feldenkrais summit and I am delighted to join you here. My career as an offsite support accountant to companies leads to long hours of sitting at my computer. I need to improve in grace of movement and reclaim good posture, not to mention undoing the rust of the aches and pains of long years of neglect, due to living in the mind rather than attending to the body. Superpower ? Not sure, but I bring curiosity, enthusiasm, tenacity.
How great to have you @Sherren Ceaythorne! Long computer hours are a hard on a being. Living in the body we can do. And curiosity, enthusiasm and tenacity are good superpowers.
@Janie Corbett from France. Thanks for sharing your journey from trauma and through shiatsu and more. You are in a good place. And we can use your deep inner joy in the face of it all–a great super otter power.
My name is Sue and I live in Montgomery, OH, just outside Cincinnati. I have been in classes for Balance, Posture, and Power for 65+ with Cynthia for several years. The work that we do in class is essential to the well-being of my back, posture, and confidence, and a continuing challenge. I am new to YLB and hope to incorporate lessons into my at-home life so that I can continue to improve my ability to function without pain.
@Susan Windgassen – Good to have you here Sue! Thanks for introducing yourself.
Greetings, all! I’m a bit late to the introduction party, but here goes… I’m typing in from a cold and wet Massachusetts, where I spend my time working/playing as a classical musician and playing as a rock climber. My Feldenkrais journey began two years ago, when a yoga teacher suggested I try Feldenkrais to deal with tingling and numbness I was experiencing in my right arm – a scary thing for a pianist. I lucked out with an outstanding teacher and had some FIs that changed my life. I found one of Cynthia’s videos on YouTube after an early FI, and recognized a teacher from whom I had much to learn.
Though I consider my healing journey well under way, I’m getting the sense that it’s a lifelong quest. I have much more freedom of movement and life choice than I did two years ago, but I still have moments where pain can shut me down. I can go from feeling like a yoga master on the rock to feeling like an old arthritic man in the span of a day. Trauma sucks, and I’ve found the path of healing to be jagged, but upward. My hope with this community is to build a regular home practice of ATM so I can stay rooted in the playful version of me. Happy to be growing with all of you!
@Brett Maguire – No time like the present to join in! Thanks for the detailed introduction. It is amazing how we can go from as you say “a yoga master on the rock to feeling like an old arthritic man in the span of a day.” But a path upward, even if jagged is the right direction. Let us know how you do and what you need to build that home practice.
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