“Heads shoulders, Knees and Toes” Part of a song we learn as children. Connecting all the parts of our skeleton with action. We spend the first months, years, learning to connect and own different parts of ourselves. In order to make complex movements such as crawling, walking or talking. As we socialise, and move towards … More Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes…
Habits are in everything we do. Whether we know it or not, we all have habits of how we do, think and sense everything. Alongside habits of emotions too. When we’re born we come out with 6-8 basic emotions imprinted in the system. Ready out of the box, if you like. (The differing numbers depends … More Enjoying the Festive Season
The festive time will be upon us very soon! For some of us, it is an only joyful period, spending time with friends and family. For others, the closeness to family might bring up less positive emotions. We can feel pulled into old patterns of thinking and behaviour. Ones we thought we’d left behind in … More Centering, for easier connections with others
Life is sometimes stressful. Nobody, no matter how successful, lives in a vacuum of pure happiness, where nothing bad happens. That idea just doesn’t exist in reality. It’s a myth, of happiness, that we should sail through life without downs as well as ups. … More The happiness myth
Today is Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of Atonement. It’s a day on which we fast and and repent, and symbolically hope we behaved well enough to be inscribed in the Book of Life this year. Actually, the first service of Yom Kippur starts the evening before, and ends just before sunset, called Kol Nidrei. It’s … More Habits of Gratitude
the Feldenkrais Method with Emma Alter 