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 | 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 28, 2023 | Changing the story, Somatic Awareness
“Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.” John O’Donohue I love this quote and I believe there is so much truth in it! Our stories start in the body with the way our autonomous nervous system ‘feels’...
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...
