Moon phases and rare lunar events

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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change, change, change

No. 20, April 2021 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna SimmonsFeldenkrais ® Practitioner Life goes on within you and without you. – G. Harrison Dear Friends and Clients, Spring is in the air! The sky is bright, the days are longer and, without any help from us, nature keeps on growing and expanding. […]

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Mutatis Mutandis…

In this space, I have noted the relative attention we pay to our machines (car, smartphone, etc.), sparing no effort to keep them in working order, while we neglect the most important machine – our physical selves. In lieu of putting in the useful attention and exploration, some of us spend time (and money) consuming pharmaceuticals to deal with fundamental structural problems – I liken this to dumping STP®into the gas tank of a car suffering from a blown head gasket. It’s relatively inexpensive, takes no time, and has no chance to fix the problem.

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Be Here Now

No. 15, May 17, 2018 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons, Feldenkrais ® Practitioner When was the last time you did something for the first time? Be here now. When Ram Dass (aka Richard Alpert) first issued his dictum for a full life in 1971, I was skeptical. That’s it? Be here […]

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Are We What We Think?

…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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Honoring Closure

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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Fads, Passing Fancies and Other Societal Ephemera

No.11, November 22, 2016 THE WELLNESS SALON Living in an age of temporal contraction Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons, Feldenkrais ® Practitioner We seem to be living in an age of temporal contraction1. Whether this is a symptom of obsessive interconnectedness, or whether the obsession springs from the dislocation of time that accompanies binge-watching, […]

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Equilibrium and Balance

No.10, July 3, 2016 – Equilibrium and balance: how do we get there? The words equilibrium and balance are often conflated to mean the same thing. A typical definition for equilibrium includes the word balance…Read More>>

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Gratitude

No.9, November 29, 2015 – “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh is a magical tale that many of us have either read or, more likely, had read to us. Read More>>

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Are we our bodies?

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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