Get the kinks out, feel more ready for life! The Tuesday evening class resumes April 3. We will find ways to increase comfort in joints - ankles, wrists, elbows, the jaw...

This continues the themes from earlier this year. Whether you have cranky hips, stiff low back, grumbling shoulders, complaining jaws, touchy toes, you will find something in each class that eases your discomfort. 
Tuesday evenings, 7pm. starting April 3, at the Calgary Jewish Centre.

The inspiration for Crooked emerged from the personal experience of Cathryn Jakobson Ramin. She writes, "I’d struggled with backache and sciatica for years. Like millions of other back pain sufferers, I was overwhelmed with ill-defined options for treatment. Which would work?"

What is great is she gives the Feldenkrais Method a thumbs up! Read the summary in the New York Times.

"Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” – James Joyce
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Marsha Novak writes, "What I typically do, especially in individual sessions, is help folks of all ages and abilities with movement related problems. The key – and this brings us back to Mr. Duffy – is to help people truly live in their bodies.
How does Marsha do this? Click to read further.

An octogenarian with thirty-nine year of military service, Max walked daily for one to two hours with Gael, his standard poodle. Post-retirement, he'd taken up golf, playing at a local course in a senior’s league where the minimum age was sixty.
Max suggested to his Feldenkrais practitioner to run a class for golfers from Jack Heggie’s CD set, Total Body Golf. He posted a few flyers with the silhouette of a man swinging a golf club beneath the title, "New Country for Old Men…Movement Lessons for Men over Fifty." Max showed up with a golf club in hand for the inaugural class. Two weeks later..
[Click to read how this Golf class became so much more]

Low Back Ease, Increase Your Balance, and more

I recorded a new free lesson for finding low back ease which I call "The Stork". It is available on my website.

Stand at your counter, workbench, or table and find ways for your discomfort to melt away. 
Although the initial recording is 25 minutes, you will quickly find ways to do mini-versions during the day. For example, while chopping vegetables, if you find you back is getting stiff, you can stop for just a moment and do a small part of it. 
Or, after an intense hour on the computer, you may find your neck becoming stiff -- you can stand beside your computer desk (or better yet, someplace even more pleasant), and do a few of the movements.

Follow this link to listen to the lesson

Carole Bucher of Reno Nevada writes, 'When you are more balanced skeletally and muscularly, all movement is easier and more pleasurable, including sex with your partner."
She hints that Feldenkrais would help your love life: read more!