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Tag Archives: Feldenkrais
Creatures Great and Small
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
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::Click:: Seeing the Boys in a New Light
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
Posted in clicker training, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexandra Kurland, Brain Science Podcast, Brooklyn Museum cat book-ends, catification, cats in crates, Cindy Bennett Martin, clicker cats, clicker training, David Letterman, Dr. Sarah Ellis, Feldenkrais, Ginger Campbell, guide-pony, Jaak Panksepp, Jackson Galaxy, Karen Pryor, Panda, Reaching the Animal Mind, Stupid Pet Tricks
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One in a Million . . .
. . . reasons I love cats is that they know what works for them. They accept no substitutes. They choose what works for them, over that which doesn’t, with a calm but insistent devotion. Finding the right space for … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged à la carte spirit, Fang, Feldenkrais, migration to the right climate, Popeye the Sailor Man
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Guardedly Optimistic
Around two weeks ago I became concerned. Or, rather, more concerned than I already was. Bugs went from spraying once or twice every three weeks or so, to spraying every day and sometimes several times a day. Barney says, “What’s … Continue reading
Learning, Cats, Bedbugs, Cilantro. Connected, Really.
“Neuroplasticity” is an umbrella term for the revolutionary discovery that the brain has, in the words of psychiatrist Norman Doidge, “the ability to change its own structure and learn to replace lost functions.” The brain is resilient, in other words. … Continue reading
Soft Power
I had an incredibly sustaining and supportive dream the other night. I was being chased by Nazis. (Yes, I did say sustaining and supportive.) My cats Bugs and Barney came to my rescue. This was my unconscious shaking its booty, … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Feldenkrais, Kindness, Philosophy-Psychology, Uncategorized
Tagged Aikido, Charles Ferguson, corruption of academe, deregulation, Feldenkrais, financial crash, Goldman Sachs, Holocaust, Inside Job, Les Fehmi, Nonviolent Communication, NVC, Open Focus, Professor Cheng Man-Ch'ing, Reaganism, Squatting Single Whip, t'ai chi
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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
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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Savoring Every Second
Those of you who know me, know I’ve made a life-long project of re-crafting myself. At the moment Bugs found me – at that very moment – I found myself not much liking whom I’d turned into. Wanting to become … Continue reading
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