by Pingel Braat | Aug 22, 2023 | Video
Feeling more wase and pleasure all starts with becoming aware of how you feel in your body! How do you feel? And is that how you want to feel? Most people’s sensation compass is tuned to pain. To feel pain, you need more pain. It’s a vicious cycle that...
by Pingel Braat | Apr 11, 2023 | Body Intelligence, Changing the story, Somatic Awareness
I am in the midst of preparing the sessions for the ‘Embrace your Body Wise’ retreat in May. The retreat will be a journey of somatic dance play that takes you into your own depths to feel, move and be moved, to discover, connect, heal and grow in your natural time,...
by Pingel Braat | Mar 28, 2023 | Blog, Body Intelligence, Nervous System Health
The benefits of somatic floor play… I love to roll on the ground. I love floor play whether it is Feldenkrais oriented or whether it has an NIA Joy in Motion taste. Rolling around and about, creeping, crawling, and playing animal… my daily dose of spontaneous...
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...
