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New
Book! Playing in the Kitchen
by Lavina Plonka
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Friends,
We
are pleased to announce a fun, new book by Lavina
Plonka,
Playing in the Kitchen
Also,
check out her latest CD,
The Power of the Pelvis
Listen to samples below.
Plus,
Feldenkrais Method
in the News, Practitioners Lavinia Plonka,
Erin Ferguson and Darragh Lambert are featured in
their local papers.
You
will also find some selections from our Advanced
Programs and our Popular
Books and CDs.
Use
Coupon AE-208290 to receive 10% off your entire purchase!
Wishing
You Health & Awareness,
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Playing
in the Kitchen: Recipes, Stories and Explorations
to Feed the Whole Self
by Lavinia Plonka
Lavinia Plonka offers a delightful smorgasbord
of opportunities for culinary delight, going beyond
standard cookbook fare to provide a feast that
transcends the five senses. Your sense of taste
will be tempted by the delicious recipes. In order
to take the stress out of cooking, each recipe
contains a Playing With Your Food Section. This
provides substitution tips, how to avoid kitchen
disasters, ways to rescue mistakes and much more.
For your sense of humor, Plonka has included stories;
both traditional folk tales as well as humorous
essays that explore subjects like cooking with
a significant other, fear of an empty refrigerator,
and the universe as a cosmic soup. But what makes
Playing in the Kitchen completely unique are the
movement explorations designed to make everything
from chopping to washing the dishes a pleasurable
and ergonomic adventure. Lavinia Plonka is an
expert teacher of the Feldenkrais Method,
and has created innovative sequences based on
Feldenkrais’ teaching that awaken
your kinesthetic sense. You’ll never cook
the same way again!
Click
here to read the introduction.
Listen to the web-only Audio Companions
for Playing in the Kitchen:
• Finding
Your Center 
• Zen
and the Art of Slicing and Dicing 
• What’s
for Dinner? 
• Standing
On Your Own Two Feet 
• The
Alchemy of the Self 
• Attitude
Adjustment 
Paperback,
137 pages, $14.95, Your
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The
Power of the Pelvis - CD or Download
by Lavinia Plonka
The Power of the Pelvis is a Workshop designed
to activate and enliven your vital center. The
pelvis can be a source of spontaneity and joy,
or the seat of challenge for anyone who has had
an injury, illness or trauma that has compromised
pelvic mobility. Athletes, martial artists and
performing artists rely on its power for peak
performance.
These two CDs contain four lessons and an introduction.
A great Christmas gift for you or a loved one,
and a nice introduction to The Feldenkrais
Method®.
Disc One
1.
Introduction
- Sample 
2. The
Center of Everything - Sample 
3. Spinal
Chain - Sample 
Disc
Two
1.
Activating
Your Pelvic Floor - Sample 
2. Freedom
to Move - Sample 
2
CDs in a Jewel Case or Download (82MB). List Price:
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More
Books, CDs and Downloads by Lavinia Plonka |
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Have
a Comfortable Flight: Simple Exercises to Stay Flexible
While in an Airplane Seat - CD or Download
by Lavinia Plonka
Designed to be played while you're sitting in your
airplane seat, simple, tiny movements can prevent
and alleviate stiffness, increase comfort and keep
circulation moving, even on a long flight. The lessons
can be done by anyone, even with a seat belt on.
An invaluable travel companion. Based on the work
of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais.
Listen
to the Introduction Now! 
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CD or Download, 6 lessons, 58 minutes, List Price:
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Unstress
Through Movement - CD or Download
by Lavinia Plonka
Anyone can follow the easy instructions on this
wonderful introduction to the Feldenkrais Method.
Three 25 minute lessons: Free Your Back, The Shoulder
/ Hip Connection and The Flexible Spine.
Listen
to samples from Unstress Through Movement:
Listen
to a sample of Track 2
Listen
to a sample of Track 3
Listen
to a sample of Track 4
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CD, 3 lessons, 75 minutes, List Price: $15.99,
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What
are you Afraid of?
by: Lavinia Plonka
Lavinia
discusses how we hold and generate fear through
the habits and postures of our body. By teaching
the body new habits, the cycle of fear can be broken.
It's subtitle: "A Body/Mind Guide to Courageous
Living" says it all. A very honestly written,
solution-oriented book on a complex and challenging
subject. Paperback,
192 pages, $14.95, Your
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Walking
Your Talk - Changing your Life through the Magic
of Body Language
by
Lavinia Plonka
Drawing
from her years of experience as a Feldenkrais
Method® instructor, Lavinia
provides simple exercises, thought-provoking lessons,
and real-life examples that help you grasp the relationship
between your movement patterns and your emotional
state. Paperback, 208 pages, List
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The
Feldenkrais Method in the News |
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Feldenkrais
Method
helps relieve holiday stress
Nanci Bompy, Citizen-Times, December 16, 2008
WEST ASHEVILLE - On first glance, the people lying
on their backs at the Asheville Movement Center appear
to be sleeping. But, very slowly, they begin to move
their right legs as the instructor in the front of
the room gives them directions, telling them to feel
what happens as they bend their knees and drag their
heels along the floor. Click
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Workout
of the week: Feldenkrais
Aimee Heckel, Boulder Daily Camera, January 12, 2009
BOULDER - Instructor: Erin Ferguson, of Boulder. Ferguson
started Feldenkrais to deal with her own
muscular pain in 1996, and she started the four-year
training to get certified in 1998. She founded a center
in New York and worked there for several years, before
practicing in London. She moved to Boulder County
in 2007 and has been offering classes here since.
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Burlington
woman helps clients get in touch
Gail Callahan, Burlington Free Press • January
7, 2009
BURLINGTON - Darragh Lambert has more than 12 years
experience helping people in need. Lambert, 44, of
Burlington is a Feldenkrais Method practitioner.
The Feldenkrais Method educates people to
use movement to improve health and awareness. Lambert
works with clients who have a variety of physical
problems. Her goal is for clients to listen to their
bodies. At times, the sessions involve Lambert using
vocal instructions rather than hands-on work to guide
clients. Click
here to continue reading . . . |
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The
Primary Image
by Cliff Smyth & Deborah Bowes
The Primary Image explores a concise
image of the body, clarifying key points of articulation
to help you move with less effort and more fluidity.
You will find ways to organize your center - the
spine, abdomen and chest - to enhance the movement
of your limbs. Those with some experience of Feldenkrais,
yoga, pilates, or dance will discover new tools
for learning movement. 4 Lessons on 2 CDs in a jewel
case. List Price: $27.95,
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Knees
on Floor, Torso on Table
- Now on 5 CDs or
Download
by Jerry Karzen
Originally developed by Jerry Karzan to inspire
the students in his Feldenkrais®
Professional Training Programs to design their
own Functional Integration® lessons,
this six-lesson program is ideal for Feldenkrais
Practitioners and Trainees, as well as those involved
in dance, pilates, yoga, martial arts and athletics.
These Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®
lessons gradually increase flexibility and self
organization in your feet, knees, hip joints,
spine, ribs and neck. Beginning with basic sequences,
the movements increase in complexity, leading
you to experience a more complete 'body' integration
and sense of self.
Listen
to the Introduction 
5
CDs in a binder or Download, 6 35-50 Minute Lessons.
Download = 250MB. List Price: $59.95 for the CDs
or $49.95 for the Download.
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Corollary
Discharge, The Forgotten Link - Remarks on the
Body-Mind Problem
by Yochanan Rywerant
Once
an intention of action is formed, communication
is sent from the motor system to the sensory systems
to prepare the body for the intended movement.
This communication is called corollary discharge,
a little-understood aspect of our neuromuscular
functioning. Learned through repetition that is
performed with sensory awareness, the corollary
discharge is highly developed in people of skill
(musicians, athletes, surgeons...) and becomes
an integral part of their self image, allowing
them to have ease, fluidity and congruence in
their movements.
Yochanan Rywerant brings this subliminal aspect
of our selves to conscious awareness, both for
the appreciation of the function and so that we
may become more able to deeply sense and enhance
our motor functioning. Through his mastery of
mind-body education, he teaches us how to utilize
corollary discharge to resolve conflicting patterns
and open the channels of communication between
our motor and sensory systems. Monograph, 35 pages,
list price: $18.00, Your
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Acquiring
the Feldenkrais Profession
by: Yochanan Rywerant
While only 63 pages, this book is packed with concepts
and ideas to enrich every practitioner's study of
the Feldenkrais Method.
Paperback, 63 pages, $20.00, Your
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Selections
from Popular CDs and Books |
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Flexibility
& Coordination - The FeldenkraisWay
- CD or Download
by
Donna Ray, M.A., M.F.T.
Have you injured yourself in a way that has compromised
your lifestyle? These lessons are specifically designed
to improve flexibility and coordination for walking,
running, even driving and other activities. Spend
less than an hour a day with these movements and
watch the quality of your life improve. 3
CDs in a binder or Download, Download = 180MB. List
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Vocal
Integration with the Feldenkrais Method
by Richard Corbeil
If
you want to develop your speaking or singing voice,
this audio program is a must-have! Improve speaking
and singing by emulating the kind of movements
and sounds that infants use to develop their voices.
Enhance your voice by reprogramming the neuromuscular
patterns that are the building blocks of vocal
functioning.
Listen
to the Introduction Now! 09:20

4
CDs in a binder, list price: $69.95,
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Meditation
- The FeldenkraisWay - CD or Download
by
Donna Ray, M.A., M.F.T.
How comfortable is your zafu pillow? These easy
movements will improve your ability to sustain
sits while clearing your mind for the practice
of your choice. You'll find your concentration
improves as you drop into meditation postures
more easily.
3
CDs in a binder or Download, Download = 163MB.
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Improving
Your Game through Eye-Hand Coordination - The
FeldenkraisWay - CD or Download
by
Donna Ray, M.A., M.F.T.
Improving Your Game through Eye-Hand Coordination
If your sport of choice involves your eyes and
your hands, these Awareness through Movement lessons
are for you. Keep your eye on the ball and watch
your game improve as you break up old habits to
create new patterns of movement.
3 CDs in a binder or Download, Download = 122MB.
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Walking:
Nature’s Perfect Exercise - Paperback or eBook
by Pamela Kihm Walking
doesn’t have to be an uphill struggle! Within
the pages of Walking: Nature’s Perfect
Exercise you will find guidance and exercises
to help you walk more efficiently - whether you
are crossing the street, going up and down
stairs, or hiking on trails.
- Achieve
greater comfort and ease in walking by making
simple postural changes
- Work
with gravity instead of struggling against
it.
- Invite
your muscles to participate naturally by following
your "skeletal blueprint."
- Discover
how the dynamics of walking apply to various
terrains and surfaces.
Each
"Step" of this book teaches you to walk
with greater comfort and power.
Download = 3.9MB. Paper, 117 pages, illustrated,
$24.00, Your Price:
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