Do you use read blogs, stay up with the news , youtube podcasts ? (I know you listen to at least one podcast and thank you for being here 😄)  I know you're learning something valuable, right? Yes, you're 'learning' and is there a little compulsion in there too? IIn the previous episode,  I discussed the importance of sharing what you learn with others. Doing so is a creative act and helps deepen our learning. In this episode, we look at the another angle, learning as intellectual stimulation to deal with insecurity. I tell a bit of my story. I wonder if it's true for you too... do you seek out knowledge as a way of self-soothing?Hi, I’m Jeffrey. As a Feldenkrais and somatic movement practitioner I help you get in touch with your body so you can unravel old sticky patterns and make way for greater creativity, power and joyful play.Want to put the ideas in this podcast to work?You can book a free 20 minute consult call to find out if we’re a good fit for 1:1 coaching. Learn more here.Join the newsletterto be the first to hear about future opportunities to work with me.Download my free lesson: Effortless Freedom in MovingDownload my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodGet Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer. Follow me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.comStay connected and subscribe to the podcast.

If you've been listening to this show for a while you will notice that at the end of each episode I encourage you to share the ideas you hear here with a friend. I say that doing so helps us deepen our learning. In this episode I will give more of an explanation of why.I draw on Moshe Feldenkrais' teachings from his training program in Amherst Massachusetts. He encouraged his students to not focus on writing down movement directions about to be curious and invested in their own experience. Taking notes would distract them from the richness of their experience. Then, after class, go and share your experience with another person. Doing so helps you make new connections. Conversations are a creative act.Don't be a passive learner. Share your learning so you can learn more.Hi, I’m Jeffrey. As a Feldenkrais and somatic movement practitioner I help you get in touch with your body so you can unravel old sticky patterns and make way for greater creativity, power and joyful play.Want to put the ideas in this podcast to work?You can book a free 30 minute consult call to find out if we’re a good fit for 1:1 coaching. Learn more here.Join the newsletter to be the first to hear about future opportunities to work with me.Download my free lesson: Effortless Freedom in MovingDownload my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodGet Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer. Follow me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.comStay connected and subscribe to the podcast.

You can hear the gym teacher yelling:Feel the stretch! Feel the burn! Work it! work it! Strain, working hard, efforting, stretching... that's all necessary to make gains, right? Right?Ok, really, how much strain is necessary for improvement?Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to tell you to not use your muscles and your power and develop strength (you're free to do as you choose, of course!) What I would like to do is guide you to freer movement without using these old ways of exercising.We will make gains not by working harder, but by working smarter.It's possible for you in your body, right here, right now. This episode features a simple Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement lessons that you can experience a new world of less effort and more freedom.You can access the longer lesson here.Hi, I’m Jeffrey. As a Feldenkrais and somatic movement practitioner I help you get in touch with your body so you can unravel old sticky patterns and make way for greater creativity, power and joyful play.Want to put the ideas in this podcast to work?You can book a free 20 minute consult call to find out if we’re a good fit for 1:1 coaching. Learn more here.Join the newsletter to be the first to hear about future opportunities.Download my free lesson: Freedom in Turning Without EffortDownload my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodGet Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer. Follow me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.comStay connected and subscribe to the podcast.

Your Insecurity is predictable. Insecure thinking isn't unique to you and so I think you should question it.On this episode, we explore how insecurity plays out in our thinking. Have you had these thoughts?They are so amazing. Why would they want to be with me anyway?I'll be better off on my own.Ugh, they are so needy! It's pathetic.I've ruined everything.If you said yes to any of the above,  listen to this episode it's got some important ideas here for you.On this episode I introduce ideas from Attachment Theory. Attachment theory refers to how people give and receive love and support, how they act when they are emotionally close, or not, with others. I describe the 3 primary styles or strategies in attachment and give examples of how insecure people think based on the book Attached. by Amir Levine.When I read the common thoughts offered by the book, I knew I could question every single one of them. I didn't need to believe them anymore.These insecure thoughts are not true to who you really are. I believe it's your responsibility to become aware of insecure thinking and behavior, and to question them.The Feldenkrais Method®'s Awareness through Movement lessons help you become a highly tuned insecurity detector by reducing tension and cultivating efficient movement. Attachment Theory ResourcesAttached. by Amir LevineWired for Love by Stan TatkinAdam Lane Smith's extensive YouTube library+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. As a Feldenkrais and somatic movement practitioner I help you get in touch with your body so you can unravel old sticky patterns and make way for greater creativity, power and joyful play.Want to put the ideas in this podcast to work?You can book a free 20 minute consult call to find out if we’re a good fit for 1:1 coaching. Learn more here.Join the newsletter to be the first to hear about future opportunities.Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodGet Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer. Follow me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.comStay connected and subscribe to the podcast.

We are going back to the Awareness Through Movement book for another look at Why Movement? Why movement as a way toward personal development and transformation?  Moshe Feldenkrais offers 9 reasons why movement. We explore reason number 6: Through movement, you can understand what's going on in the nervous system.Awareness Through Movement is brain work. It's nervous system work. We're not interested in building muscles, we're interested in creating new connections in the brain that lead to better quality movement, and more choice in what we do.Working with the brain changes the body. You could say we're working with the mind to move the body to change the brain to change the body... 🤣Or we can drop the the distinction. We're working with ourselves in away that gets down into the deep fabric of who we are, where we can add a little bit more space and a little bit more grace.The quote from the book:Movements Reflect the State of the Nervous SystemThe muscles contract as a result of an unending series of impulses from the nervous system; for this reason the muscular pattern of the upright position, facial expression, and voice reflect the condition of the nervous system. Obviously, neither position, expression, nor voice can be changed with out a change in the nervous system that mobilizes the outward as visible changes.Them, when we refer to muscular movement, we mean, in fact the impulses of the nervous system that activate the muscles, which cannot function without the impulses to direct them.Thought the heart muscles of the embryo begins to contract even before the nerves that will control it have developed, it does not work in the way familiar to us until ts own nervous system can regulate its action.From this we may derive a conclusion that seems paradoxical at first sight: improvement in action and movement will appear only after a prior change in the brain and the nervous system has occured. That is, an improvement in body action reflects the change in the central control, which is the exclusive authority. The change in the center control is a change in the nervous system.__________Hi, I’m Jeffrey. As a Feldenkrais and somatic movement practitioner I help you get in touch with your body so you can unravel old sticky patterns and make way for greater creativity, power and joyful play.Want to get moving and put the ideas in this podcast to work?You can book a free 20 minute consult call to find out if we’re a good fit for 1:1 coaching. Learn more here.Join the newsletter to be the first to hear about new courses and opportunities.Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodGet Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer. Follow me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.comStay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋

In the previous episode I talked about how our time in school has a lasting impact on our experience. For many It shapes us to do well, that we must get good grades and to avoid punishment due to mistakes and errors. Many learn that they must put in excess effort and to make it perfect, and to focus what we make on other people's standards,On this episode I'll share some advice I received about recalibrating what is my Good Enough and aim for B+ work. Special thanks to my coaches Autumn Kessler and Sandy Connery for the idea and encouragement. You can find their work at andshe.co.Expect to hear my strategy for beating perfection by mapping out exactly is a B+ for what you're doing. It's so important to finish and move on to the next project so your skills improve.I tie this in to how Awareness Through Movement can help us develop our own kind standard for ourself.Hi, I’m Jeffrey. As a Somatic Movement practitioner I help you get in touch with your body so you can unravel old sticky patterns and make way for greater creativity, power and joyful play.Want to put the ideas in this podcast to work?Join the newsletter to learn about my online offerings including 1:1 sessions and courses.Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodGet Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer. New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.comFollow me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.comStay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋

A common challenge for students in Awareness Through Movement classes is that they try much harder than they need to. For a good reason too, they want to do a good job in class. They want to do it right.I don't blame them. It's not their fault. I think we can point to our school system for why many of us have had the habits of working hard with excess effort, the need to get good grades and avoid mistakes. Our education and our response to our educators shapes our experience.How has education shaped you?On this episode you will hear...- How humans are distinct from other creatures,- My experience in education- How Awareness Through Movement challenges our old habits in profound ways. What works in school won't work here.- How Feldenkrais helps you steward your own self-education.- an encouragement to try flunking... 😁I hope you enjoy the episode.+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋Would you do me a favor and rate the podcast? A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  review would go a long way! Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodThis will put on my mailing list so you can hear about opportunities to work with me. Get Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast. I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com Follow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

In this episode we discuss  a topic I love: how the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons can influence your dream life. It's one of my favorite aspects of the Feldenkrais Method but barely anyone talks about it. It's really cool.  I don't remember my dreams often but some nights they come through more vividly and I can recall them when I wake up. I can tell that what I am learning and exploring through my movement practice helps me open up new possibilities in the stories of my dreams. Dreams can offer us a lot of information and clarity so let's pay attention them.In this episode you will hear me talk aboutmy experience of dreams.what I think dreams are and how the Feldenkrais Method has an effect on them.my recommendations for what to do in the morning after a night of vivid dreams.Do you have dreams like this because of Feldenkrais? What's your relationship to dreams? I'd love to hear from you. Reach out to my at Jeffrey@ExpandYourAbility.com+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋 Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method Get Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast. I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet? I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.com Follow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

In this episode I answer your questions. The three questions are:Are there Feldenkrais lessons that isolate the mind and body from each other?After cowering as a child, how can I stand up straight and be a warrior?During Feldenkrais lessons, I feel like I could cry. Why does this happen?There is something useful for everyone in this Q+A. Get Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋 Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.com Follow Me on Instagram: @expandyourability Had an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

Do you feel lost, directionless, overwhelmed by choice, or feeling powerless to make lasting change in your life?If so, this episode has something for you.In this episode I will talk about creating a life plan -- a document that represents the vision of your live going forward that can continue to guide your future decisions.I will talk about why I needed it, the process I followed and my experience enacting it.You will hear...about the book that Living Forward by Hyatt and and harkavy that gave me a process to make the life plan. life plan process and how helpful it is to read it out loud.I described my planning problems that had me stuck and how they began to change with doing the life plan reading.I share some journal entries from my 90 days of reading.I recommend having accountability partner to share your progress with.I encourage you to consider making a plan like the one suggested in this episode. If you want to learn more about the book, check out their website: Living Forward (by Hyatt and Harkavy)+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋 Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method Get Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast. I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.com Follow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

A old woman is walking down a busy sidewalk in the city when she is firmly bumped aside as a man runs past her. Wait a second... that man stole her purse! Fortunately a police officer heard the cries and chases the man through alleyway, over fences, and past cooks in the hot frantic kitchen of a restaurant. The he turns the corner and it's a dead end. The thief is trapped. The police man aims his gun, and commands: Don't move. Here is the question. Can the criminal really stop moving?Can anyone stop moving if they are alive?We explore this question and Feldenkrais' 5th of 9 reasons for Why Movement as a means for self-improvement.You will hear the except get broken down sentence by sentence. We talk about how movement reflects our state of mind, how movement is inherent in every moment of living, all muscular activity is movement. I describe how I observe movement when I teach Feldenkrais® lessons. I offer a few descriptions of people's movement and how that evokes something about their state of mind.It's a long excerpt this time so here it is for you to read.All muscular activity is movement.Every action originates in muscular activity. Seeing, talking, and even hearing require muscular action. (In hearing, the muscle regulates the tension of the eardrum in accordance with the loudness of the sound perceived)Not only are mechanical coordination and temporal and spatial accuracy important in every movement, its intensity is also important. Permanent relaxation of muscles causes action to be slow and feeble, and permanent excessive tension causes jerky and angular movements; both makes states of mind apparent and linked with the motive of the actions. Thus, in mental patients, nervous persons, and those with an unstable self-image, it is possible to discern disturbances in the muscular tonus in accordance with the deficiency. At the same time, other attributes of action, such as rhythm, and adjustment in time and space, may be more satisfactory. It is possible to discern trouble in the regulation of intensity in movements and in the facial expression of a person on the street, even for an unskilled observer who does not know exactly what is wrong.+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋 Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method Get Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast. I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.com Follow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

Lavinia Plonka, veteran teacher of the Feldenkrais Method is my guest this week. Her background stretches from playing the according, to theatre and mime, to yoga and the martial arts. She brings her rich history of learning and exploration in so many fields to this conversation.  We talk about how she got into the Feldenkrais Method, pursuing mastery and her thoughts on daily practice.In this episode you will hear...The surprising story of how Lavinia became a mime.Lavinia's approach to relinquishing control and being open to life. "Let the universe take care of you".How Lavinia first came to the Feldenkrais Method and how she ran out the door when she saw that you worked with people using touch.The Feldenkrais work invites us to attend the places in ourselves that physically locked or inhibited from their full possibility.Her father's wisdom "There is no such thing as perfection. Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes a master."How Lavinia practices daily and her recommendations to people just starting. "You have to make an appointment with yourself everyday."Feldenkrais Trainer Mark Reese's answer to Lavinia's question, "how can I pursue my dream of being a writer."About Lavinia PlonkaBody language expert Lavinia Plonka has helped people improve their movement, behavior, relationships and careers for over 3 decades. Her unique expertise connects the dots among posture/movement, emotions and the mind. Lavinia’s training and professional career have included theater, dance, yoga and the martial arts. She has taught The Feldenkrais Method® for 35+ years and is also an Assistant Trainer.Lavinia is a level CL4 teacher of the Alba Method and an Emotional Body Instructor. She was an artist in residence for the Guggenheim Museum and movement consultant for theater and television companies around the world, from the Irish National Folk Theater to Nickelodeon. A faculty member of the Shift Network, Lavinia’s popular workshops explore the intersection between movement, emotions and the mind. She is currently the director of Asheville Movement Center in Asheville, NC. Lavinia’s writing includes several books and audio programs.Lavinia's Website: https://laviniaplonka.com/Lavinia's lessons and books: https://laviniaplonka.com/new-products-page/++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋 Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method Get Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions about the Feldenkrais Method! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast. I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com Follow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

Do you have a memory of a time when you were a kid and you ran away and hid? There was something so bad and you felt so terrible that  you had to get away.Does that memory linger with you? Does it arises from time to time and you think, "that was a really rough moment." You can still taste the feeling and sensation. You may even sense how the memory contorts your body. Our responses to difficult moments in our childhood can continue to stay with us, shaping our bodies and our decisions. That's what we're talking about today.In this episode, I will share two true stories. A story about living with giants and a story about a small boy. Then we will talk about how this is relevant for us.In this episode you will hearJeff Haller's definition of trauma:  "An experience where one doesn't have the resources to meet the moment. If you have the resources, then there's no trauma. But it's not only that you don't have the resources to meet it, it also changes your brain."The trauma of growing up in a culture, education system, a familyHow intense emotion and movement associate together.How the world looks to children.How we are shaped by the world.How the Feldenkrais Method helps us shape our future.+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method Get Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast. I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.com Follow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

We deal here with health and not with disease. This is what Moshe Feldenkrais told the students of his training program back in 1980. Feldenkrais offers a two part definition of health and I think it's a big reason the Feldenkrais Method is so compelling for practitioners and long time students of the work.So what is health? Is it simply the freedom from disease or illness, or is it something more...In this episode you will hear:- some inadequate definitions of health- health is your ability to recover from shocks- how shocks and traumas relate- health is the ability to pursue the dream that's within you- reflection questions+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method Get Your Questions Answered!Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast. I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.com Follow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

On this episode I want to talk about this framework: the 3 goals of the Feldenkrais Method. These are interrelated goals. Each one makes the others possible. I hope by breaking this down into these three categories, we can illuminate some new and less obvious spaces between ideas.  Spoiler Alert, its more than about moving better.  The three goals of the Feldenkrais Method I will explore are Outer Work, Inner Work and Life WorkExpect to hear in this episode:Our muscular activity interferes with our expression.Practicing non-reactivity, compassion and curiosity.Recognizing our compulsive patterns around learning (do we whip ourselves like a mule)Dad's wisdom: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same result.  Inhibiting your past to make new choices.By the way! A five star review would be so helpful. If you have a moment, please consider submitting one in your podcast app. +++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodI'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.comNew Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.comFollow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

This episode presents my interview with Kelly Cordes of Central Minnesota's WJON radio station. I talk to with her about what is the Feldenkrais Method, it's benefits and what does taking a class look like.I was connected with Kelly because I have been teaching at the Whitney Senior Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Seniors are in a particularly open to the Feldenkrais Method because it is so accessible for people -- it doesn't require beginners to be strong, agile, or flexible. The Feldenkrais process helps everyone improve regardless of their starting point. As we age, the poor habits of moving and thinking catch up with us and lead to wear and tear and aches and pains. Life doesn't have to be a downward slope. We can learn at any age to have more effective and efficient movement which means we can become more graceful, creative and strong. You will be surprised by what you can do! In this episode you will hear:The Feldenkrais's emphasis on questions over force (we don't try to fix ourselves).The phrase you can't teach an old dog new tricks is incorrect!Listen to your body while it's quiet, before it yells at you with aches and pains.How we wall off our potential growth through our negative beliefs.What is an Awareness through Method® group class like?Jeffrey's recommendation to give this work a fair trial (try 6-10 lessons to see if it works for you).Jeffrey's personal story and questions that led him to the Feldenkrais Method.About the interviewer Kelly CordesWJON WebsiteHi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodI'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.comNew Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.comFollow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

The Feldenkrais Method is a way to improve your own sense of self-value in your. The way in which you value yourself by your own standards, and less and less by the standards of others.How good is that? Would that be worthwhile for you?On this episode we explore the 4th of nine reasons for Moshe Feldenkrais advises for movement as a tool for self-improvement and growth. The ability to move is important to self-value. On this episode you will hear:- the passage Feldenkrais write on this- how our perceived imperfections affect out behavior- my story of how my voice- the downsides of constant conscious efforts- how our desire to protect ourself limits our natural expression- how the Feldenkrais® Method helps a person increase their self-value by their own standards+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋Had an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.comDownload my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodFollow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityNew Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.comWatch the Feldenkrais Documentary Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com

When Jenny Frank-Doggett incorporates Feldenkrais® into her therapy sessions, she finds it helps her clients to feel better. She means 'feel better' in two meanings. They feel better in their body and mind and they can feel more. They can become more attuned with their experience.Language is tough. I agree that it's important that we connect Mind and Body. Our culture in the West has had such an emphasis on the intellect and a general disregard for the body (thankfully that's changing), so it makes sense to encourage people to reconnect Mind and Body. But, as my guest points out, Mind and Body were never truly separated - they are one. We can use somatic (body-based) tools to help a person with their mental health because the mind is body and the body is mind.What you will hear in this episode:Jenny's background into Jungian therapy and hypnotherapy."We can have physical symptoms and not realize it's related to a traumatic event".Our brain and nervous system are designed to keep us alive.Examples of sympathetic and parasympathetic activation."Through touch we can co-regulate", Co-regulation is where two people's nervous systems become alike. Jenny's preference to work with client's feet to help them 'ground'.'Kindling in the brain', a metaphor for how negative thought patterns strengthen through repetition .What life looks like if you're not stuck in parasympathetic or sympathetic activation.About the GuestJenny Frank-Doggett is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, and a Guild Certified Practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method®. She is based in Redmond, Washington. She has been a student and teacher of psychology, yoga, and other esoteric and transpersonal practices for over 25 years. Jenny’s current work, consists of individual and relationship therapy as well as facilitating classes, groups, and intensive transformational retreats. Somatic body work and education using the Feldenkrais Method ® is integrated into Jenny’s counseling practice as physical wellbeing and attention practices directly impact mental and emotional health. Jenny facilitates transformational therapeutic groups with Tom - her life partner of 26 years and they have two adult daughters and many dogs.Email her: jenny@tigermountaincounseling.comJenny's website: https://www.tigermountaincounseling.com+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.comDownload my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodWatch the Feldenkrais Documentary Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.comFollow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com

I've used the term story many times on this podcast. Stories are what we've learned about ourselves, beliefs about how we should act. Stories are the way our past continues to shape our actions.Some common stories that live out in people's experiences are I'm not good enough, I'm not lovable, its better for me to not feel, I need to push hard to get results.  (Do these resonate with you?)On this episode I share a student's experience of discovering a story he had that he wasn't aware of before. He had internalized the story that he shouldn't touch his face. We take a closer look and break down the elements of the story so we can learn how other stories work.In this episode you will hear:Stories emerge out of sense of finding security (to fit in, to be accepted)How a feeling of aversion is an indication of storyStories can be tangled togetherHow this student's story lead to a clever work aroundAwareness is the first step to changing a storyWhat to do we aim at if we're not aiming at the right answer??How the Awareness Through Movement process helps us discover our hidden stories (and habits)Examples of other stories+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. (If you would leave a review, I'd appreciate it too 👋😄)New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.comDownload my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodWatch the Feldenkrais Documentary Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.comFollow Me on Instagram: @expandyourability

As a curious child, Sarah Baumert, experimented with the yoga postures she found in a book. She found joy in how the postures stimulated intense energy or offered calm. She was far more comfortable with expressing with her body than her words and became a professional dancer. When she became a yoga teacher she learned to put her profound experience into words so she could guide students to find that for themselves.  She later realized how her dance training had an oppressive quality that was instilled in her.  This deeply affected her movement and how she related to herself. It wasn't until her Feldenkrais training, Sarah learned how to move to the music of her internal senses as a way to work through chronic dance injuries and to find freedom in her body. In this episode you'll hearThe power of postures to change our experiencesSarah's childhood experimentation with movement"There is a deep intelligence that can come from knowing the body from a movement practice" Differences and similarities between Yoga and FeldenkraisFinding a sense of expansiveness while using effortHow Sarah incorporated Feldenkrais lessons into her teaching practicesFeldenkrais is not lazy yoga (😆)Feeling free in your bodyFeldenkrais as a way to unlearn external authorityAbout the GuestSarah Baumert is a freelance dance artist and somatic educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an authorized Awareness Through Movement® Teacher, certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, and Yoga teacher. She has held teaching positions at the Harvard Center for Wellness, MIT, the University of Minnesota and the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. She runs her own podcast, Sarah B. Yoga + Feldenkrais®.WebsiteInstagramSubscribe to Newsletter+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. 👋New Course Coming! (Would you do me a favor?)Do you feel stuck lately? Is there something that you want to do, but you just can't do it yet?I am doing research conversations with people like you in order to build an online course using the Feldenkrais Method. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? I'd love to hear your story! Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.comDownload my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais MethodWatch the Feldenkrais Documentary Teaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.comFollow Me on Instagram: @expandyourabilityHad an Aha? Let me know: jeffrey@expandyourability.com