Current Classes and Pop-Ups
Monthly Zoom Classes
Flexible Relief: Ease in the Lumbar–not your Usual PT
August 4, 18, 25 and September 1, 2026
If your lumbar is overworked, two things come to mind: the flexibility in your ribs and the spaciousness of your hip joint. If your ribs can move your thoracic spine can move, and that’s where you want to get a lot of rotation–spare your lumbar. Think of your chest as an accordion, not a box. Now about the hips…. when you run your finger down your torso in a straight line to the front top of your thigh, and you cross the line from torso-ness to thigh-ness, does it feel soft and spacious and ready and available? Or tight? What Feldenkraisers call ‘opening the front of the hip’ would help your lumbar a lot.
The reference to PT? They are getting way better about this, but Physical Therapists might incline towards making you stronger so you can yank yourself around to the better posture. (So now you have two bad habits.) Our focus is on what needs to let go. How could you reorganize yourself so that you spontaneously use your hip joint in your best combination to support your lumbar? Come and find out!
Neuroplasticity: Balance and Vision
September 2026, more information on timing coming soon
Vision is a prime component of balance, it is true. Balance requires you to know where you are in relation to gravity. If you can identify the horizon, then you know that gravity is perpendicular to that line. Add in a little information from your inner ear and you know almost everything you need to know about where you are… you have your GPS coordinates.
And there’s so much more. First and foremost, have your inner ears and eyes been to couples therapy recently? Sometimes they get out of whack with each other and that doesn’t just throw off your balance, it is very, very, very tiring for your brain (and other body parts) to have to mediate the quarreling. “We’re tipping!” “No we’re not!” “Your mother wears army boots.” “She has to because you keep telling her we’re tipping when we’re not!” Whether you are a kayaker wanting to roll or a shopper wanting to navigate the parking lot at the grocery store, or just a person not wanting to have to work so hard to get peace in your brain, a reset is fun and oh, so beneficial.
The other important point is how many, many senses we have for balance–from vibration through our feet to the feeling inside us, in our muscles, when we engage with gravity (proprioception). Join us and help coordinate the eyes, the inner ear, and your entire muscular system in helping you know where you are and how to stay upright (unless you want to roll around, in which case–yes–we absolutely can do that).