Benefits of the Anat Baniel Method and the Feldenkrais Method®

Improve awareness

Improve connection to the moment

Transforming back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, wrist pain and so on

Transforming and undoing "getting older" creakiness

Transforming accident, injuries, recovery and over-all vitality

Recovery from strokes.

Improve awareness

Improve mobility

Transforming mechanical behavior to freedom

Transforming and undoing stuck and boring patterns

Transforming your life

Recovery from all sorts of setbacks, real or imagined.

More flexible brain

Encouraging a sense that "Anything's possible"

Younger brain

Smarter brain
Healing of brain from accidents

Slowing down and maybe even reversing MS, Parkinson's, dementia

Learning how to learn

Feel better

Feel taller

Better love making

Reverse inflexibility and narrowing down of so-called "aging"

Transforming cerebral palsy, autism, MS, other neurological challenges

Increase sports abilities

Improve awareness

Feel younger

Feel lighter

Move, think and breathe better

Better posture

Better acture (ability to move gracefully in any direction)

Move, think and breathe better

Expanded horizons and abilities to embrace change in life

Transform unhappiness and depression

Avoid Surgery

Heal Much, Much more rapidly from Surgery

Improve/ transform anyone's back.

Move better than you ever have before

Increase creativity

Increase skills in teaching yoga, tennis, golf, any sport, music, singing and so on

Learn quicker and more enjoyably in golf lessons, tennis lessons, music lessons, equestrian lessons

Sing better

Public speaking

Acting

Improvization

Improve inner connection

Improve/ transform "tennis elbow."

Improve/ transform " tai chi" knee.

Improve/ transform musician's elbow, hands, back.

All repetitive stain injuries transformed as the whole you gets
better and better at sensing, moving, being at ease, skill, pleasure (a new ESP)

Improve/ transform gardener's back.

Deepen abilities to "relax," release and de-stress

Transform and cure insomnia

Help tradespeople keep injury free as they get older

Increase abilities to be present

Deeper connection to yourself

Clarity of thinking

Better walk, limp transformation.

Better circulation, lymph transformation.

Walk better, run better, sit better, sleep better

Transform dance, running, balance

Increase studying and learning abilities in children and adults

Decrease depression, anxiety, confusion

Increase life clarity

Transformation of dyslexia, reading abilities improved, math abilities, too

Undoing stress

Natural Vision Improvement

Transforming injury

Reverse carpal tunnel, repetitive strain

Learn to work at computers without wrecking ourselves

Improve scoliosis

Learn how to go about "problems" as glorious opportunities

Increase and enhance yoga, Pilates, martial arts

Return to youthfulness

Increase Learning

Improve breathing

Improve health

Improve balance

Increase confidence and curiosity

Become more Present

Anat Baniel Practitioner

my son
Brendan
and I

have both completed
10 segments of the
Anat Baniel Method
Basic Training.


2 and a third years,
90 days
tons of learning

it has changed us both
introduced us to a big tribe
of fine people
and given us hours
or great time together

and allowed us to become
colleagues in one of the most
amazing healing technologies in
the world.

noble idea

Baraka mentions
a noble idea:

all men/women/ children equal in the Universe
s
eyes
on the way to happiness if they so want

a prez
interested in noble ideas
and seeming to embody nobility
in the best sense
of the world

noble ideas>>>>>>

when do we let
these in
for ourselves

the idea of a life lived
as we know
we can

a dance of pleasure
and being there to help
the old ladies
dance across the street,
the old men do a jig
the young women laugh at the programs
others wish to strap them into
the young men
not afraid of their confusion
excited
about
what
what
what
are we
going to learn

awakened mind

what is the awakened
mind?

a nice place
of return
to watching
all of life
and being in
love
with
each and every smidge
of it

big order

and who
knows?

maybe our natural
state

---

nice late
christmas
with
wenonah
and brendan
tonight

gratitude cafe
in bekeley
walking the big
city streets
exchanging presents
and some
presence
and lots of
ease
and
appreciation
around a public
table

good

Parenting, Dreams, Invitation to improvement and joy

Advice to parents:
Say nice things to your kids everyday.
Especially when they aren’t being wonderful.
Tell them you love them.
Tell them they are wonderful:
when they hate you
when they do poorly in school
when they “forget” to do their chores (and keep asking, just don’t nag
when they are unpopular
or confused

And, above all: talk to them.
Away from the television set.
Away from the computer games.
Just talk. Don’t give advice. Just talk.
Even better, outside together, enjoying nature together, and just talk.

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Dreams last night:

Last night in the going
back
to sleep
a kind of half sleep
and dreams:
of a wolf/lion/skunk/bear
what was that creature
wondering even as I saw it
and a dancing with a cerebral palsy
man, by hugging from behind
the woman dancing with him
her pressed in between us
and I guide and heal and teach
his nervous system
as the three of us
dance

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Invitation to Improvement and Joy

Let’s say: you have a soreness in your back or shoulders or neck as you move through life, and wouldn’t mind not only having that go away, but could enjoy learning how to function better from head to toe, from pelvis to ribs, from elbow to ear, from spine to sternum, from eye to brain?

In other words: are you game to become a more complete and aware and happy in your body and happy in your awareness person?

If this sort of improvement, about upgrading your nervous system, and rekindling your love of learning appeals to you, come on around and give yourself for awhile to this work, this Way of Conscious and Exploratory Movement.

Let’s say you want to play tennis better, or ski better, or golf with more ease and improvement and success. Again, are you willing to go inside and discover how you are and how you could be more, as this marvel of engineering, all these bones and muscles with a big brain on a planet of constant gravity and a body of two legs, and brain that loves to learn?

Good.


That’s my invitation for today.

Serenity and parenting

children like
to challenge our serenity

this pose
above can be one to regain
our serenity

and children
usually don't go out
to drive us crazy
until later,
maybe high school age
when they might
plot to drive us crazy

why would they possibly do that?

all those years we drove them
crazy:
revenge

this isn't a very cheery set of
ideas
is it

or is it:
old wounds,
fine.
and possibilities:
serenity
or going along with the
trouble

the work might
come in handy
when they are getting unruly

but basically
the old slow down
idea:
sit down
watch them

slow down
listen to them

take a breath
and then
follow the breathing
and wonder what
the world
is like
from their point of view

wonderful challenges
that would help us with any friend
or lover

and we can't escape the necessity
if they are our kids

well, actually, we can:
but we'll wish we hadn't

so
it's the same wonderful
story:
our being present
is the best present

in good times
or bad
happy
or sad
busy
or dull:

just to be there
with them
watching
listening
no books to read no TV to watch
no things to rush off to
forget preparing dinner even
for five minutes
just sit,
ask them to talk,

listen