by Pingel Braat | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog, Changing the story, Somatic Awareness
Years ago, when I started dancing the tango, I wanted a sexy dress. I found a very nice dress that swirled around me when I danced and which had a very nice low back. For years I have worn that dress with great pleasure and I looked super sexy and elegant in that...
by Pingel Braat | Feb 18, 2023 | Blog, Changing the story, Somatic Awareness
Yesterday I participated in an online training course to become an NIA Blackbelt teacher with about twenty other women. The assignment we got was to take turns in front of the camera, engaging the other women in your dance. I felt the shrinking motion, so familiar to...
by Pingel Braat | Feb 8, 2023 | Body Intelligence, Nervous System Health
The pitfall of making assumptions. The body tells… After a Feldenkrais lesson people often share that a movement is more difficult on one side than the other. And often they immediately explain to me why this is so. I then hear about an injury or experience from...
by Pingel Braat | Feb 6, 2023 | Blog, Nervous System Health
| “How Exercise Enhances Aging Brains. Sedentary, older adults who took aerobic dance classes twice a week showed improvements in brain areas critical for memory and thinking.” (Gretchen Reynolds in Phys Ed) Isn’t it interesting how your brain’s health, and...
by Pingel Braat | Jan 22, 2023 | Blog, Somatic Awareness
Looking at this picture that I found on Facebook 3 years ago, I am most touched by the words ‘Act in spite of fear’. I feel that I and with me, many others have firm struggles with overcoming the fear that is holding us back from following our heart. Fear of not being...
