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Neuroplasticity: Balance and Vision
September 2026, Tuesdays at 11 eastern time by zoom, starting September 8th.
Balance requires you to know where you are in relation to gravity. If you can see the horizon, then you know that gravity is perpendicular to that line. Add in a little information from your inner ear about what’s up and what’s down–the vertical line–then you know almost everything you need to know about where you are… you have your GPS coordinates. The third factor is you using your internal sense of stress and strain–your body’s relation to the pull of gravity–to know where you are.
Try it. Close your eyes. Keep your head still so you aren’t invoking your inner ear, and now move your arm, bend your elbow. You know where your hand is, thereabouts. That is your ‘proprioception’--your muscle tension telling you where you are.
But mostly, balance is how you harmonize all that information. 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 and its curbs, or just a person not wanting to have to work so hard to get peace in your brain, a reset for balance is fun and oh, so beneficial.
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 be where you want to be.
Neuroplasticity: Calm, Movement and that Pesky Thing 'Consciousness'
October 2026, Tuesdays at 11 eastern time by zoom, starting October 6th.
This series is about the intrinsic pleasure of harmonizing with your own self. When people remark, at the end of a Feldenkrais lesson, that they feel so calm, it is probably because the internal noise--the interoceptive jangle--has largely resolved itself. I don't mean this in a meditative way. It isn't that the internal messages stop whizzing around from system to system or data stream to data stream. It is--I hypothesize--that the internal signals are better reconciled. Their timing becomes coordinated. The skips and stutters come unwrinkled. Internal communications aren't trying to shout over the din. And this isn't just a nervous system refresher: immune, cardio and endocrine are all part of this now-more-integrated dance: safe and nourishing and full of potential.
The real confirmation of this 'internal harmonizing' idea is how you feel at the end of the movement lesson. But if you crave validation from current neuroscience, this series has materials for you! You'll find support for my hypothesis: it is the act of awareness in movement, the drawing of attention, that brings on the calm. Paying attention is the harmonizer, the reset and the loosener-of-habits. It is the inner noise reducer. And the sheer pleasure. (And if you just want to feel that for yourself in the movement and leave the latest in neuroscience to the side, that’s great! The proof is in how you feel, after all.)
Sign up for this series and you'll get reams of science-y info which you are welcome to ignore, plus of course four zoom lessons designed to thrum your inner tuning fork.