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Category Archives: Feldenkrais
A Very Important Award
With a nod to one of our favorite blog-pals Katnip Lounge, we’ve been honored with the Very Important Person Cat award by another of our favorites, Confessions of A Cat Woman. Confessions is an avatar of wit and style, so … Continue reading
Left-Brain Right-Brain Boogaloo
Bugs is amazed to hear that humans may actually understand something important after all. Fang is, like, whatever. (Bean’s grandmother never had any doubts on that score.) Devote eleven minutes to this wonderfully fun and informative video, about what left-brain-right-brain … Continue reading
The Ears Have It
The other day the world changed for me. Life can happen like that. Not in a “good” way. I woke up with bizarre symptoms. I’ve always had ringing in my ears – tinnitus. My dad had it before me. Medical … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Feldenkrais, Kindness, Pictures
Tagged Awareness Through Movement, cats, dizzy, Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais Method, Health, Hearing, hearing in one ear, kindness, light-headed, Ménière's disease, Medicare, tinnitus
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Assurance : The Work
I mentioned I wanted assurance. Ease, solace, soothing. For all of us, beans and cat-beings alike. I now see, in my golden years, that I need to loosen my grip on that ’60’s flower-power pipedream. This flower doesn’t grow by … Continue reading
Bugs Assured
After yesterday’s checklist, one thought remains. I may have become, to my horror, like many parents I know. After all I’ve done for you? A little gratitude might be nice. But if I ask instead: Do I see Bugs … Continue reading
Posted in Feldenkrais, Pictures, Tellington Touch, TTouch, Things Cats, Humans Do
Tagged cats, discipline, Feldenkrais, Tellington Touch, treats, TTouch
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Bugs and Bean Take It Up A Notch
Writing on Father’s Day, I dedicate this post to my essentially kind departed father. Zichrono l’bracha. It’s been too long without a picture of His Highness, so let me get that done next. This was shot back in the day … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Feldenkrais, Pictures, Tellington Touch, TTouch, Things Cats, Humans Do, Uncategorized
Tagged Aikido, awareness, Baja California Sur, brain science, cactus, cats, Cesar Millan, clowder, dog whisperer, Feldenkrais, indoor, indoor cat, jumping cholla, learning, Nonviolent Communication, NVC, Tellington Touch, TTouch, valerian
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A Sole For Marty
I begin this post, and I end it, with Bugs. Through him, you and I connect. Through him, through other beings like him in our lives, we share – I’ll come right out and say it – Love. The flavor … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Feldenkrais, Pictures
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What Do Cats Want?
That’d be Freud, asking: What do women want? As if, whatever it is, it wouldn’t make any sense. As if being blamed, for five thousand years, for getting us booted out of the Garden isn’t enough to make anyone nuts. … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Feldenkrais, Philosophy-Psychology, Pictures, Tellington Touch, TTouch
Tagged broccoli, cats, cauliflower, Feldenkrais, fingerprint, fractals, growth, individual, learning, nosepads, noses, Sigmund Freud, Tellington Touch, training, TTouch, unique, Yvan Joly
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Metaphor Mash-Up
Here are some pictures of Bugs taken shortly after our Tellington session the other day. You can see how gracious he was. What you can’t see is how full of verve and sass also. We had to have another little … Continue reading
