lab, acturally
Blog URL http://acturelab.wordpress.com
Located Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Tags Feldenkrais, tango, human movement, culture
Successive approximations of a Melbourne Feldenkrais practitioner. Movement, cake, tango and occasional English language observations.
Latest Blog Posts
- sticks and stones…
...may break your bones, but WORDS will never hurt you. I beg to differ. Many of my Feldenkrais students also learn tango. And tango teachers, like me, use words to describe movement. But I use very different words to those tango teachers commonly...
- loose change
Last week I gave a presentation on the Feldenkrais Method to a group of massage therapists. They were a great bunch: genuinely caring and actively seeking injury prevention methods for their clients. Massage therapists are pretty much on the front li...
- Reversibility
A colleague recently reminded me of the Feldenkrais concept of reversibility (thanks N., it made my day). In a Feldenkrais context, reversibility is the basis of agility: Agility is the ability to change the body's position efficiently, and requires...
- Head over Heels
One-and-a-half new workshops this month: Walking in High Heels. There are many *interesting* websites concerning high heels, plenty that thunder on about the anatomical evils of wearing said items, and plenty that offer "how-to" instructions. Of the...
- Cake is good for the soul…
Consider the bliss induced by one of these: A baby chocolate kooglhouph from Monarch Cakes. After eating, burn those calories off by dancing! It makes you smarter, you know...
- White coat or tie-dye?
Yesterday, 4.00 pm: "Feldenkrais? That's a kind of..." (circles hands in front of chest while alternately lengthening and contracting fingers and wrinkling forehead) "...healing thing, isn't it?" Ummm, yeee-no. Or as young funky things declare thes...
- the *real* paris end of melbourne
Anyone know where I can lay my hands on a raclette grill? I'm still revelling in last night's heart-attack-on-a-plate (aka raclette, pomme de terre, jambon, saucisson, plus de raclette, plus chacuterie) served up by one of my past English language st...
