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The Sensual Sessions#108 How To Overcome Insecurity And Be Sensual — Jeffrey SchwinghammerToo shy to love? Overcome insecurity and embrace your sensual self by paying attention to your bodily sensitivity with the tips in this episode.
How Can Insecurities Act As Barriers To Sensual Pleasure
Insecurities often prevent us from fully embracing and enjoying moments of joy and contentment. By recognizing the power of positive experiences to loosen the grip of insecurities, we can start to challenge this pervasive feeling. Embracing joy serves as a counterforce, suggesting that the act of enjoyment can itself be transformative.
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Integrated WellbeingFeldenkrais Method for Healing Grief with Jeffrey SchwinghammerWelcome to Integrated Wellbeing podcast for people in grief and the professionals who serve them. Please subscribe 🙏
We are here to provide education, inspiration, and practical tools for our audience by interviewing those bereaved by loss, mental health professionals, and grief specialists. Our mission at the Integrated Wellbeing Institute is to awaken the griever to their Inner Peace through the guidance of their body.
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Expand Your AbilityAwareness, Choice and LeadershipOn today's episode, we are examining the big picture, specifically focusing on awareness and choice, and how both are crucial for leadership. We inherit our physical bodies and patterns from our families and culture at large, as well as from our direct experiences. Until we become aware of our patterns, they simply appear familiar and normal to us. It is only when we develop awareness and begin to question them that we can initiate change. Until we question them, our lives remain a reflection of our past experiences. Becoming fully aware and understanding the impact w...2024-03-2333 minExpand Your AbilityBig Work Requires Big SupportToday's episode is for you if you think you can do it alone, if you think you don't support, or you think being supported is a weakness. As my mentor Jesse Koren says, big work requires big support. By big work, we're talking starting a business, fixing your relationship, and healing from old wounds just to name a few examples. We can't do it alone. This is one of those universal truths but our habits and unhealthy beliefs can blind us to this truth. The Feldenkrais Method of Awareness Through Movement is a...2024-03-1328 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? Your Habits Hinge on MovementOn today's episode, we're exploring why movement is such a big deal according to Moshe Feldenkrais. We dive into his book, "Awareness Through Movement," and explore the ninth and final reason why movement is at the core of personal growth and self-awareness. (You can find the previous 8 reasons in previous episodes.) The Feldenkrais Method is about becoming aware of your habitual patterns in order to open up new possibilities. Movement, according to Feldenkrais, lies at the heart of this process. He says that the habit patterns of thinking, feeling and sensing all hinge on m...2024-03-0526 minExpand Your AbilityLaura Bond - Exploring the Emotional Body"We are all emotional beings." I'm going to be a vulnerable here...even though I am feeling better overall than I have ever felt before, I have had a difficult history with my emotions. My frame before was that emotions happen to me. They drove the bus. What I have learned since is two primary things, 1) that emotions are information (not truth) and 2) we can influence our emotions through movement. Thankfully, I have a lot more say over my emotions today thanks to working with Laura Bond and her approach. We can choose how we feel to a...2024-02-2652 minExpand Your AbilityEmbodying the VoiceFeldenkrais Practitioner, musician and storyteller David Kaetz says that many of us get disembodied from our voice from a young age. It's common and normal for kids to make sounds as they explore and play, until they get the message that they should be quiet. Is this a message you've internalized? How playful with your voice are you One of my main motivators in exploring Feldenkrais and the bodymind connection comes from my own pain and tension surrounding my voice. I could tell it was related to self-use and anxiety and it was clearly manifesting...2024-02-1920 minExpand Your AbilityRespect Your Body Like Your MindOn today's episode, I take a question from a long time listener and student. She asks, Is it possible to have as much respect and concern for my body as I do for my mind? This is a great question. Does it resonate with you? Are you intellectually gifted or cognitively centered? It's hard not to have an emphasis on the mind over the body in our culture. Is your body a second class citizen in your thinking? Here's the thing, your body is the basis for your mind. A truly strong and sensitive body is a...2024-02-1225 minExpand Your AbilityThe Importance of RestWhen do you rest? Do you save rest for the end of the day? What does quality rest look like? Many of us are conditioned to work for hours on end with little rest. Rests are often seen as unproductive or a waste of time. Time is money as the adage goes. We're on the clock. Even if we don't believe these statements to be true ourselves, it's certainly easy to feel where our culture pressures us to disregard our needs. In the Feldenkrais work as well as the other somatic...2024-02-0626 minExpand Your AbilityCaroline Ritter - Knowledge Generation, Changing Habits and Animal TrainingWe are deeply formed by our experiences and those experiences create the lens in which we view the world. How well do we really know ourselves? My guest Caroline Ritter talks with me today about how can gather useful and practical knowledge about ourselves. How we can be like scientists studying ourselves. She emphasizes that we need to be curious and to cultivate a relationship with our selves and our knowledge. What we tend to and maintain can continue to grow. Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement offers a unique opportunity for us to learn about ou...2024-01-2956 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? Your Breath is Movement We breathe every every minute. Breath is essential to life. How you breathe, whether through your nose or through your mouth, the volume of air that you take in, the shape of your breath in your body, where you breathe in your body the air goes, the temp and rhythm, reflects you. Your breath reflects how you think, how you feel, what's going on beneath the hood. And how you choose to breathe can feed back into your system, changing your mood and your thoughts. Your breath is you...2024-01-2323 minExpand Your AbilityCandia Raquel - Choosing Pleasure: Maturity, Boundaries, and SensualitySensuality is our birthright, says my guest Candia Raquel. Sensuality is pleasure derived from our sensation, free from inhibition and full of self-expression. To be with the sensuous is to be connected to the present. Our modern culture numbs us from our bodies. Pleasure is sold as a product (go get something nice at Starbucks). We're encouraged to hustle, work hard, and sacrifice. and defer the pleasures of life till retiring on the beach. Being numb is a big problem, because it disconnects us from what makes us really us. Instead of choosing wh...2024-01-151h 00Expand Your Ability(Re)Introducing Jeffrey and the PodcastWelcome to the Expand Your Ability podcast! This show is about how we can empower ourselves through movement, curiosity, play and awareness. I've done a lot of continued study in the past year and so I thought I would (re)introduce myself. If you're new here, welcome! We will get you caught up to speed on what this show is about. If you've been a long time listener, this episode will tie some threads together and introduce some new ones. On this episode, you can expect to hear: - a b...2024-01-1325 minExpand Your AbilitySomatic Visioning for 2024Welcome to 2024! 🎉 On this episode, we will be looking at what value you want to cultivate and embody this year through a somatic movement proces. By value, what do I mean? Could be courage, humility, honesty, whatever you choose. By doing this through a somatic movement process, we access the rich world on sensation and non-verbal thinking with in us. From there we can find new creativity. It is in our body(the Soma in Somatic) that we can move in to wholeness. (If you feel like you need to know whic...2024-01-0147 minExpand Your AbilitySomatic Reflecting on 2023This is the last episode of 2023 so let's reflect! We will look back on the events of this past year, including our relationships, our challenges and what we've learned. We will do this in embodied way, with movement to help us ease into the process and open the doors to insight. That means this episode includes audience participation! Thats right, you! So please take a listen to this episode when you have some quiet undistracted time. Get a journal and pen, find some floor space, and let's get started.2023-12-2537 minExpand Your AbilityMarlene Finds Her Power AgainMarlene came to class with a big celebration. She reported that after our previous Feldenkrais class, she found a sense of embodied empowerment she hadn't felt since she was a vibrant cheerleader at the age of 19 - six decades ago! She described rediscovering this power as akin to finding the life restoration of Lazerous. At 19, she had surgery for appendicitis that wasn't incorrectly completed. The surgeon incorrectly sowed parts of her abdomen to her diaphragm. Bad news. Even after a corrective surgery in her 30's to fix the problems from the first surgery...2023-12-1828 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? Movement is the basis of awarenessWe go back to the book, Awareness Through Movement, to continue this series on Why Movement? Why did Feldenkrais choose movement to focus his method around? Awareness Through Movement was written in 1972 by Moshe Feldenkrais. The first half of the book is a great introduction his thinking on society, the human being, the nature of habits and compulsion and what we can do about it. We first explore the importance of awareness. Why are we so interested in awareness? Feldenkrais did name the group classes and his book Awareness Through Movement. Becoming aware of ourselves i...2023-12-1123 minExpand Your AbilityAdam Lane Smith - What Do Secure Relationships Look Like?If you have lived with insecurity, it can be challenge to imagine what a good relationship could be like. A good relationship can be so foreign, you might even reject it. It's so important to understand what secure bonds look and feel because that can give us the perspective to turn around what's not working and to strengthen what is working. That's the topic of my conversation with relationship expert Adam Lane Smith: What does secure behavior look like? What behavior leads to mutually fulfilling relationships that are sustainable, and enjoyable? 2023-12-0452 minExpand Your AbilityAre You Learning Or Coping?Do you use read blogs, stay up with the news , youtube podcasts ? (I know you listen to at least one podcast and thank you for being here 😄) I know you're learning something valuable, right? Yes, you're 'learning' and is there a little compulsion in there too? I In the previous episode, I discussed the importance of sharing what you learn with others. Doing so is a creative act and helps deepen our learning. In this episode, we look at the another angle, learning as intellectual stimulation to deal with insecurity. I tell a bit of my sto...2023-11-2712 minExpand Your AbilityShare Your Learning To Learn MoreIf you've been listening to this show for a while you will notice that at the end of each episode I encourage you to share the ideas you hear here with a friend. I say that doing so helps us deepen our learning. In this episode I will give more of an explanation of why. I draw on Moshe Feldenkrais' teachings from his training program in Amherst Massachusetts. He encouraged his students to not focus on writing down movement directions about to be curious and invested in their own experience. Taking notes would distract them from the...2023-11-2008 minExpand Your AbilityNo Strain... and Yet Gain?? (Includes a Exploratory Movement Lesson)You can hear the gym teacher yelling: Feel the stretch! Feel the burn! Work it! work it! Strain, working hard, efforting, stretching... that's all necessary to make gains, right? Right? Ok, really, how much strain is necessary for improvement? Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to tell you to not use your muscles and your power and develop strength (you're free to do as you choose, of course!) What I would like to do is guide you to freer movement without using these old ways of e...2023-11-1319 minExpand Your AbilityYour Insecurities Are Predictable, So Question ThemYour Insecurity is predictable. Insecure thinking isn't unique to you and so I think you should question it. On this episode, we explore how insecurity plays out in our thinking. Have you had these thoughts? They are so amazing. Why would they want to be with me anyway? I'll be better off on my own. Ugh, they are so needy! It's pathetic. I've ruined everything. If you said yes to any of the above, listen to this episode it's got some important ideas here for you. On this episode I i...2023-11-0616 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? Movement is a Window into Your Nervous SystemWe are going back to the Awareness Through Movement book for another look at Why Movement? Why movement as a way toward personal development and transformation? Moshe Feldenkrais offers 9 reasons why movement. We explore reason number 6: Through movement, you can understand what's going on in the nervous system. Awareness Through Movement is brain work. It's nervous system work. We're not interested in building muscles, we're interested in creating new connections in the brain that lead to better quality movement, and more choice in what we do. Working with the brain changes t...2023-10-3014 minExpand Your AbilityBeat Perfection and Aim for a B+In the previous episode I talked about how our time in school has a lasting impact on our experience. For many It shapes us to do well, that we must get good grades and to avoid punishment due to mistakes and errors. Many learn that they must put in excess effort and to make it perfect, and to focus what we make on other people's standards, On this episode I'll share some advice I received about recalibrating what is my Good Enough and aim for B+ work. Special thanks to my coaches Autumn Kessler and...2023-10-2312 minExpand Your AbilityOn Getting Good Grades and FlunkingA common challenge for students in Awareness Through Movement classes is that they try much harder than they need to. For a good reason too, they want to do a good job in class. They want to do it right. I don't blame them. It's not their fault. I think we can point to our school system for why many of us have had the habits of working hard with excess effort, the need to get good grades and avoid mistakes. Our education and our response to our educators shapes our experience. How h...2023-10-1615 minExpand Your AbilityFeldenkrais Shakes Up Your Dream LifeIn this episode we discuss a topic I love: how the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons can influence your dream life. It's one of my favorite aspects of the Feldenkrais Method but barely anyone talks about it. It's really cool. I don't remember my dreams often but some nights they come through more vividly and I can recall them when I wake up. I can tell that what I am learning and exploring through my movement practice helps me open up new possibilities in the stories of my dreams. Dreams can offer us a...2023-10-0917 min
Brain ShamanJeffrey Schwinghammer (Part 2): Feldenkrais Lesson #2 — MORE Awareness Through Movement | Episode 44This is a Feldenkrais lesson with Jeffrey Schwinghammer, followed by a quick post-lesson reflection. ** - Jeffrey's podcast - Expand Your Ability- Website: www.expandyourability.com** MORE RESOURCES - Feldenkrais Method official website: feldenkrais.com - Awareness Through Movement (book)And if you still can't get enough Feldenkrais, feel free to rewind to episodes 42 and 43 with Paul Pui Wo Lee. 2023-10-0459 minExpand Your AbilityQ&A #1: Isolating Mind from Body, Becoming a Warrior and Sadness during LessonsIn this episode I answer your questions. The three questions are: Are there Feldenkrais lessons that isolate the mind and body from each other? After cowering as a child, how can I stand up straight and be a warrior? During Feldenkrais lessons, I feel like I could cry. Why does this happen? There is something useful for everyone in this Q+A. Get Your Questions Answered! Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast. +++++ Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a...2023-10-0222 minBrain ShamanJeffrey Schwinghammer (Part 1): Expand Your Habits, Abilities, Self-Image, and Consciousness through Feldenkrais | Episode 43This is an interview with Jeffrey Schwinghammer. He is a filmmaker, podcaster, and Feldenkrais teacher. We discuss how to use movement to change the way we sense, think, and feel about ourselves, our possibilities, and the world. It is never too late to learn, grow, or overcome old habits and patterns. This is an episode about self-improvement, learning, self-awareness, and growth, using movement as our primary tool. Some topics we discuss include: changing your self-image, increasing awareness of how you do things, moving with greater ease and efficiency, leveraging the power of your skeleton, utilizing your muscles...2023-09-271h 17Expand Your AbilityStop Drifting and Make a Life PlanDo you feel lost, directionless, overwhelmed by choice, or feeling powerless to make lasting change in your life? If so, this episode has something for you. In this episode I will talk about creating a life plan -- a document that represents the vision of your live going forward that can continue to guide your future decisions. I will talk about why I needed it, the process I followed and my experience enacting it. You will hear... about the book that Living Forward by Hyatt and and harkavy that gave me...2023-09-2520 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? Your Movement Reveals Something About YouA old woman is walking down a busy sidewalk in the city when she is firmly bumped aside as a man runs past her. Wait a second... that man stole her purse! Fortunately a police officer heard the cries and chases the man through alleyway, over fences, and past cooks in the hot frantic kitchen of a restaurant. The he turns the corner and it's a dead end. The thief is trapped. The police man aims his gun, and commands: Don't move. Here is the question. Can the criminal really stop moving? Can anyone stop moving if...2023-09-1818 minExpand Your AbilityLavinia Plonka - Practice makes a MasterLavinia Plonka, veteran teacher of the Feldenkrais Method is my guest this week. Her background stretches from playing the according, to theatre and mime, to yoga and the martial arts. She brings her rich history of learning and exploration in so many fields to this conversation. We talk about how she got into the Feldenkrais Method, pursuing mastery and her thoughts on daily practice. In this episode you will hear... The surprising story of how Lavinia became a mime. Lavinia's approach to relinquishing control and being open to life. "Let the universe take care o...2023-09-1149 minExpand Your AbilityThe Land of Giants - The Troubles of ChildhoodDo you have a memory of a time when you were a kid and you ran away and hid? There was something so bad and you felt so terrible that you had to get away. Does that memory linger with you? Does it arises from time to time and you think, "that was a really rough moment." You can still taste the feeling and sensation. You may even sense how the memory contorts your body. Our responses to difficult moments in our childhood can continue to stay with us, shaping our bodies and our decisions. Th...2023-09-0412 minExpand Your AbilityWhat is Health?We deal here with health and not with disease. This is what Moshe Feldenkrais told the students of his training program back in 1980. Feldenkrais offers a two part definition of health and I think it's a big reason the Feldenkrais Method is so compelling for practitioners and long time students of the work. So what is health? Is it simply the freedom from disease or illness, or is it something more... In this episode you will hear: - some inadequate definitions of health - health is your ability to recover from shocks...2023-08-2812 minExpand Your Ability3 Goals of the Feldenkrais MethodOn this episode I want to talk about this framework: the 3 goals of the Feldenkrais Method. These are interrelated goals. Each one makes the others possible. I hope by breaking this down into these three categories, we can illuminate some new and less obvious spaces between ideas. Spoiler Alert, its more than about moving better. The three goals of the Feldenkrais Method I will explore are Outer Work, Inner Work and Life Work Expect to hear in this episode: Our muscular activity interferes with our expression. Practicing non-reactivity, compassion and curiosity. Recognizing ou...2023-08-2114 minExpand Your AbilityHow does the Exploratory Movement Helps Seniors - Radio Interview on WJONThis episode presents my interview with Kelly Cordes of Central Minnesota's WJON radio station. I talk to with her about what is the Feldenkrais Method, it's benefits and what does taking a class look like. I was connected with Kelly because I have been teaching at the Whitney Senior Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Seniors are in a particularly open to the Feldenkrais Method because it is so accessible for people -- it doesn't require beginners to be strong, agile, or flexible. The Feldenkrais process helps everyone improve regardless of their starting point. As we a...2023-08-1418 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? Improve Your Self-ValueThe Feldenkrais Method is a way to improve your own sense of self-value in your. The way in which you value yourself by your own standards, and less and less by the standards of others. How good is that? Would that be worthwhile for you? On this episode we explore the 4th of nine reasons for Moshe Feldenkrais advises for movement as a tool for self-improvement and growth. The ability to move is important to self-value. On this episode you will hear: - the passage Feldenkrais wr...2023-08-0719 minExpand Your AbilityJenny Frank-Doggett - Feldenkrais® and Mental HealthWhen Jenny Frank-Doggett incorporates Feldenkrais® into her therapy sessions, she finds it helps her clients to feel better. She means 'feel better' in two meanings. They feel better in their body and mind and they can feel more. They can become more attuned with their experience. Language is tough. I agree that it's important that we connect Mind and Body. Our culture in the West has had such an emphasis on the intellect and a general disregard for the body (thankfully that's changing), so it makes sense to encourage people to reconnect Mind and Body. But, as m...2023-07-3139 minExpand Your AbilityDon't Touch Your Face! An Anatomy of a StoryI've used the term story many times on this podcast. Stories are what we've learned about ourselves, beliefs about how we should act. Stories are the way our past continues to shape our actions. Some common stories that live out in people's experiences are I'm not good enough, I'm not lovable, its better for me to not feel, I need to push hard to get results. (Do these resonate with you?) On this episode I share a student's experience of discovering a story he had that he wasn't aware of before. He had internalized the s...2023-07-2424 min
Sarah B. Yoga + Feldenkrais®Finding Freedom in Your BodyEpisode 100: Today I am going to share with you an episode of the Expand Your Abilities Podcast with Jeffrey Schwinghammer. Jeffrey is a filmmaker and Feldenkrais practitioner and the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method. I’m really enjoying how his podcast is breaking down some really complex principles of the Feldenkrais method. In his recent interview with me we discussed my background, how I came to teach both yoga and Feldenkrais, and how learning to move efficiently can enhance the quality of our life. Our conversation leads to t...2023-07-2143 minExpand Your AbilitySarah Baumert - Yoga, Feldenkrais and Finding Freedom In Your BodyAs a curious child, Sarah Baumert, experimented with the yoga postures she found in a book. She found joy in how the postures stimulated intense energy or offered calm. She was far more comfortable with expressing with her body than her words and became a professional dancer. When she became a yoga teacher she learned to put her profound experience into words so she could guide students to find that for themselves. She later realized how her dance training had an oppressive quality that was instilled in her. This deeply affected her movement and how sh...2023-07-1737 minExpand Your AbilityEmbrace Your Creativity with the Feldenkrais MethodFor over a decade I have done video editing. So often by the end of a work session I would walk away feeling cranky or prickly. While creating the videos I was also creating unnecessary discomfort (which sent my on a journey into the Feldenkrais Method). That was the basis for burnout and resentment. Not good. I believe everybody is fundamentally creative. We create the relationships we have with the choices we make (whether or not we know what choices we are making). The Feldenkrais Method is a method of becoming aware of the choices we make s...2023-07-1033 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? Movement is Richer than Feeling and Thought"We all have more experience of movement, and more capacity for it, than of feeling and thought," says Moshe Feldenkrais in his 3rd argument for Why Movement as a basis for self-improvement. In the North American culture I call home, there is a strong emphasis on personal growth through acquiring information like facts and ideas with not much of a focus on learning through movement (I understand the irony that I am creating a podcast to share information 😆). Feldenkrais believes movement offers richer experience for us than thoughts and feelings. We can learn directly through move...2023-07-0322 minExpand Your AbilityReframing Being "Too Sensitive" and a Technique to Settle DownHave you ever been called "too sensitive"? I have and I don't like it. It's not helpful and I think it misses the point. In this episode, I reframe sensitivity. Sensitivity is a good and necessary quality. Sensitivity is about how you receive information from the world to inform your actions. Wouldn't you prefer a partner who is sensitive to your needs? A baker who is sensitive to the ingredients? A driver who is sensitive to the road? The issue is when we react too intensely to what we're paying attention too. This is over-excitability...2023-06-2631 minExpand Your AbilityJeff Haller - Transcend Your HistoryMy guest this week is Jeff Haller, a 40 year veteran Feldenkrais practitioner and trainer of other practitioners. Jeff Haller chose the Feldenkrais Method over many other professions, including aikido, psychotherapy, and basketball coaching because he believed this method was singular in helping people transcend their history. He's a generous and compassionate teacher. In this episode you will hear: Jeff Haller's professional explorations into basketball coach, aikido, psychotherapy, yoga teacher, taichi, massage therapy, physical therapy. The Feldenkrais® Method as 'keystone' learning principles to bring to any other field. Feldenkrais' ea...2023-06-1933 minExpand Your AbilityA Case of Unbridled RageWhen big emotions sweep through you, what do you do? How do you handle them? Big emotions like rage can lead us to destroying the relationships that are important to us. This episode explores the story of one of my students, Shahryar, who has a history of 'pent-up' aggression. This aggression led him to make choices he later regrets. He attempted to deal work out those feelings through forceful exercise. He 'smashed and mashed' the bad feelings out of himself. But that led to more problems. Through our Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement classes together, he ha...2023-06-1421 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? You Can Discern Quality More EasilyDiscerning quality is essential to living life with choice and satisfaction. You do this already when you turn off that Netflix show because it's just not good. Boring! Or maybe you're a mechanic and you're tuned into the sounds of the engine. That clunks not a good sound... You're attentive to quality when you type up that sensitive email to your client. You want to get the words just right. Am I sounding too aggressive? What about discerning the quality in our own experience? Moshe Feldenkrais argues that we can more...2023-06-0515 minExpand Your AbilityDeclutter Your House of HabitsIt's springtime! Yay! Get those windows open and bring in the light. Oh boy, there's a lot of work to do. We really did let ourselves go during the wintery months.😅 The impulse to spring clean is so natural as the days get longer and warmer. But do you think to spring clean your your house of habits? House of habits, you ask, what is that? In short, its your history, your behavior, the sum total of you in everything you do. Do you move with clarity or ease? Or are you...2023-05-2917 minExpand Your AbilityAlice Boyd - Taken Apart and Put Back TogetherWell, that was a waste of time.That was Alice's first experience of the Feldenkrais Method 25 years ago. Little did she know she would come to love it and produce a movie about the method years later. "I felt like I was taken apart and put back together in the way I should be put back together." That's how Alice Boyd's described her first experience in a 1:1 hands-on Feldenkrais lesson. Alice Boyd's Bio A Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner since 2014, Alice Boyd teaches group and individual lessons online and in-person in Portland, Oregon...2023-05-2233 minExpand Your AbilitySurprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method(!)There is the common list of benefits about the Feldenkrais Method: people get from lessons saying they feel taller, more grounded, lighter, more graceful, easier movement, less pain etc. That's a good and with this episode I wanted to focus on the surprising benefits of this work. The benefits that emerge as new thoughts for yourself. Like the following: I didn't know I was doing that! I never expected I could do that! I improved my game without practicing! As one continues on their Feldenkrais journey, more and more benefits reveal themselves. To l...2023-05-1511 minExpand Your AbilityWhy Movement? Your Body Won't Let You FallPut aside your self-help books. Step away for a moment from the your therapy session. Consider movement as a key ingredient you've been missing. In a world that's so focused on thinking and feeling, why would movement be necessary for self-improvement? Let's find out. Moshe Feldenkrais in his book Awareness Through Movement gives 9 reasons for Why Movement? We tackle the first one: Your nervous system is preoccupied mainly with movement. Expect to learn: - why nervous system is primarily concerned with movement - you're the descendent of a great line of...2023-05-0814 minExpand Your AbilityAwareness Through Movement: What you need to know to get startedWhen your friend says they are going to go do an ATM, do you look at them perplexed? I guarantee you they are not grabbing money from a machine. 💸💸 ATM is the short hand for Awareness Through Movement®, the group class of the Feldenkrais Method®. If you find yourself curious about Awareness Through Movement, but you want to know what you're getting yourself into, listen to this episode. You'll learn everything you need to step into a class whether in person or online. In this episode, you will learn the basics of the A...2023-05-0118 minExpand Your AbilityWhat's In Your Self-Image? and What You Can Do About It"We act in accordance with our self-image." Moshe Feldenkrais opens his book Awareness Through Movement with this line. He then says the self-image "governs our every act." Feldenkrais is taking the broadest view of human behavior. This episode dives into what is the Self-Image and its three factors: Heritage, Education and Self-Education. Understanding this fundamental idea will help you pursue your life goals. In this episode, learn the 3 factors of the self-image the forces that shape us how we can learn about ourselves from our choices what is most in our control s...2023-04-2413 minExpand Your AbilityHow You Do One Thing is ...Do you find yourself getting after it at work, focusing hard to make this Friday's deadline but you don't really know how to turn it off this urgency when you get home? That high-pressure way of doing then sneaks into your relationships, which isn't so appreciated. 😅 There is the old phrase, How you do one thing is how you do everything. We need to ask the question: What if we don't like how we do that one thing/everything? The big challenge is that how we do thi...2023-04-1708 minExpand Your AbilityIntroduction to the PodcastWelcome! In this first episode I will talk about: who I am and my background What is the Feldenkrais Method the goals of this podcast. +++++ Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method. Stay connected and subscribe to the podcast. Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method Watch the DocumentaryTeaser Trailer: teaser.feldenkraismovie.com Follow Me on Inst...2023-04-1007 minExpand Your AbilityWelcome to The Expand Your Ability Podcast Welcome to the Expand Your Ability Podcast. I'm your host, Jeffrey Schwinghammer. This show delves into the nuanced interplay of body, mind, emotions, power, and choice. Are these scenarios familiar to you? Your body feels rigid and tense, a constant knot in your back, and shoulders perpetually hunched. Your inner critic relentlessly berates you for the smallest slip-ups. Hobbies you once cherished now collect dust because your energy is drained. You sense an emptiness, a nagging feeling that something essential is absent. You catch yourself thinking, "Here I am again, stuck d...2023-04-0502 min