Tag Archives: Alexandra Kurland

Captured on Tape

Posted on December 25, 2016 by nadbugs

Since I first wrote about clicker training in June, one month after my first equine workshop with Alexandra Kurland and Cindy Bennett Martin, the boys and I have been brushing up on our clicker routine every day. Cindy visited yesterday and … Continue reading →

Posted in clicker training, Uncategorized | Tagged A Few of the Girls, Alexandra Kurland, cats, Cindy Bennett Martin, clicker training, crates, Maeve Binchy | 7 Comments

Creatures Great and Small

Posted on September 11, 2016 by nadbugs

Continuing in last time’s theme of choosing what feels good, instead of submitting to Strict Father’s demands — On the importance of balance, both emotional and physical — As the season turns, it feels good and balanced to meditate on small beings finding … Continue reading →

Posted in clicker training, Uncategorized | Tagged aesthetic pleasure, Alexandra Kurland, Arabian, clicker training, Feldenkrais, Fowler's Toad, Sasha | 3 Comments

Why Ask?

Posted on August 9, 2016 by nadbugs

Because chances are, we don’t know as much as we think we know – about ourselves and others, about the world at large, and especially about communicating collaboratively with other species. This not-knowing makes Bugs want to holler. Readers of … Continue reading →

Posted in clicker training, Empathy, Feldenkrais, Kindness, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexandra Kurland, ask don't tell, brain science, certainty is not biologically justifiable, clicker training cats, Donald Trump, Feldenkrais Method, George Lakoff, Mia Segal, Panda, Robert Burton | 8 Comments

::Click:: Seeing the Boys in a New Light

Posted on June 20, 2016 by nadbugs

It’s been an eon since I last posted. Since then, it feels like the Earth has shifted in its orbit and I along with it. The new orbit turns around clicker-training. When Bugsy arrived around six years ago, at a … Continue reading →