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This blog offers reflections on movement, awareness, communication, and the everyday patterns that shape how we live and relate. Each piece is an invitation to pause, notice, and explore what feels meaningful in your own experience.

Letting Go

A major principle when doing Awareness Through Movement® lessons is to “do less”. Interestingly, it isn’t so easy.With each lesson, participants are instructed to move easily, only do what is comfortable, and make the movements simple.

Ground, Center, Breathe

Tough times ask for tough measures. I am upping my game – taking action. Digging into my power.

Transitions

“Transitions”, the last Awareness Through Movement series I taught, shared a perspective that included agency. The idea for the theme came to me because I was going through a significant transition. And it would be interesting to teach what I want

One Step Towards Better Breathing

One way to make significant changes in how we feel and how we move is to eliminate that which is not needed. We can start by eliminating the over efforting that we don’t even know that we are doing when we breathe.

A Bit of Anatomy

Here are a few descriptions of those receptors and how we know what they are telling us and how best to use that information. You may have heard of them in your classes or books or through your friends or practitioners, even in the news.

More To Say About Breathing

There can never be too much to say about breathing. Especially since it takes practice and attention to not leave it behind when we are doing the most mundane things.

Flexible Feet & Ankles

Many people take notice of their bodies when in pain, taking them for granted unless something doesn’t work quite right. It’s unfortunate, but true. And it is understandable. We aren’t taught how to live in our bodies.

Love Your Shoulders

My finger slides across his shoulder... lightly… just enough to let him know that I am there and just before he turns and reaches up, me following; each of us dancing to the music in response to each other.

Hip Joints... Keep Us Moving

The problem is that in the fitness and rehab worlds, you would think that the only muscles of the hips are the hip flexors (psoas), the ITB and the piriformis. Those are the ones that are most written about, stretched, rolled and massaged. In the old

A Refuge From the Aggression of Life

Conflict. Some people thrive on it, others run from it. What’s hard is to sit with it or even know what to do with it. Competing interests create conflict, tripping us up, holding us back, basically making a mess of things.

Balancing the Head on the Spine

We don’t think too much about our necks unless we are in pain. But before we talk about pain, lets talk about the head and spine.Take a moment to think about how the head balances on the spine. The size of the two joints that form the head/spine conn

A Crowded Restaurant

Standing shoulder to shoulder in a crowded restaurant for an hour waiting for an open table takes its toll. (Four years previous to Covid when doing so was not such a threat.) There were five of us celebrating Matt, my middle son’s 21st birthday.

Waking Up to Breath

Breathing–swallowing coordination is our first learned motor skill. Infants take about 30 breaths per minute in their first 6 months—totaling nearly 8 million breaths by half a year.

Taking a Stance

Sitting on the steps outside my house, I feel the October sun warming me just enough to feel the pleasure of having to do less work to stay warm. Taking a break. Rest, recover, sleep, the golden nuggets of balance in a busy life.

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