New Book! Playing in the Kitchen
by Lavina Plonka

Dear 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.

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Wishing You Health & Awareness,
Al Wadleigh, GCFP

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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 Price: $13.46 w/coupon.


 

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: $26.00, Your Price: $23.40 w/coupon.


More Books, CDs and Downloads by Lavinia Plonka

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!

1 CD or Download, 6 lessons, 58 minutes, List Price: $15.99, Your Price: $14.40 w/coupon.


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

1 CD, 3 lessons, 75 minutes, List Price: $15.99, Your Price: $14.40 w/coupon.


 

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 Price: $13.46 w/coupon.


 

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 Price: $18.95, Your Price: $17.06 w/coupon.


The Feldenkrais Method in the News

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 here to continue reading . . .
 
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. Click here to continue reading . . .
 
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 . . .

Advanced Material

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, Your Price: $25.16 w/coupon.

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. Your Price 53.96 for the CDs or $44.96 for the Download w/Coupon.


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 Price: 16.20 w/coupon.


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 Price: $18.00 w/coupon.

Selections from Popular CDs and Books

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 Price: $44.95, Your Price: $40.46 w/coupon.

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, Your Price w/coupon: $62.96.


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. List Price: $44.95, Your Price: $40.46 w/coupon.


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. List Price: $44.95, Your Price: $40.46 w/coupon.


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: $21.60 w/coupon.


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