No. 21, May 2021 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna SimmonsFeldenkrais ® Practitioner A supermoon is a full moon…that nearly coincides with perigee – the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit – resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from earth. […]
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No. 19, September 2020 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna SimmonsFeldenkrais ® Practitioner Dear Colleagues, Clients and Friends, I hope this message finds you well in these challenging times… As some of you may know, current state protocols with regard to Covid-19 prevent me from conducting sessions in my office at 333 Miller. […]
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No. 18, February 2020 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons Feldenkrais ® Practitioner “Reflections (on Feldenkrais): I am more and more aware of physical sensations in daily life. If I notice I am efforting, I relax. Sometimes I adjust my shoulders. Other times I intuitively make a change which “causes” me to […]
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No. 17, April, 2019 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons, Feldenkrais ® Practitioner The Feldenkrais® Method has two unique modalities. One is called Functional Integration® (FI®), a private hands-on session where the practitioner guides the client. This is what I do in my office. The second approach developed by Moshé Feldenkrais is […]
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No. 14, December 26, 2017 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons, Feldenkrais ® Practitioner Weber’s law, also called Weber-Fechner law, is a historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus. The law states that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant […]
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Ms. Brody explores treating chronic pain through movement by using the Feldenkrais Method.
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…I must at times remind myself that it is during times of chaos that opportunities arise. In the Feldenkrais® Method confusion often leads to an opportunity to learn something new.
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No.12, December 31, 2016 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons, Feldenkrais ® Practitioner SENDING WISHES FOR ABUNDANT HEALTH, PEACE, HAPPINESS, LOVE AND LAUGHTER IN THE NEW YEAR. MAY 2017 BE KIND AND GENTLE TO US ALL. NAMASTE, DONNA As 2016 (2559 B.E.) comes to a close I invite you to reflect on […]
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No.8, September 28, 2015 – Henry Marsh, the British neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm*, reflects on his mother’s death (from metastatic cancer) and muses on the nature of consciousness. He refers to ‘the binding problem’ in neuroscience, “…the extraordinary fact, that nobody can even begin to explain, that mere brute matter can give rise to consciousness and sensation.” Read More>>
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No.4, May 21, 2014 – I am often asked what actually happens in a Feldenkrais session. While I am a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method®, I also integrate other modalities, depending on your needs. In fact my sessions are usually tailored to the requirements of the individual at the moment in time that they present themselves in my office, regardless of what we had been working on in a previous session, what my session notes may indicate, etc. A “typical” session does not exist. Nevertheless, what follows is a representative description of how my practice works for new clients. Read More>>
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