April 2024 Announcement With Spring Comes Change and Transformation Happy Spring to you all. With the change in season this year comes another kind of change that I need to bring to your attention. I am (once again) moving my office to a new location on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley. For the past almost four years I
No. 21, May 2021 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna SimmonsFeldenkrais ® Practitioner A supermoon is a full moon…that nearly coincides with perigee – the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit – resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from earth.
No. 20, April 2021 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna SimmonsFeldenkrais ® Practitioner Life goes on within you and without you. – G. Harrison Dear Friends and Clients, Spring is in the air! The sky is bright, the days are longer and, without any help from us, nature keeps on growing and expanding.
No. 19, September 2020 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna SimmonsFeldenkrais ® Practitioner Dear Colleagues, Clients and Friends, I hope this message finds you well in these challenging times… As some of you may know, current state protocols with regard to Covid-19 prevent me from conducting sessions in my office at 333 Miller.
No. 18, February 2020 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons Feldenkrais ® Practitioner “Reflections (on Feldenkrais): I am more and more aware of physical sensations in daily life. If I notice I am efforting, I relax. Sometimes I adjust my shoulders. Other times I intuitively make a change which “causes” me to
No. 17, April, 2019 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons, Feldenkrais ® Practitioner The Feldenkrais® Method has two unique modalities. One is called Functional Integration® (FI®), a private hands-on session where the practitioner guides the client. This is what I do in my office. The second approach developed by Moshé Feldenkrais is
In this space, I have noted the relative attention we pay to our machines (car, smartphone, etc.), sparing no effort to keep them in working order, while we neglect the most important machine – our physical selves. In lieu of putting in the useful attention and exploration, some of us spend time (and money) consuming pharmaceuticals to deal with fundamental structural problems – I liken this to dumping STP®into the gas tank of a car suffering from a blown head gasket. It’s relatively inexpensive, takes no time, and has no chance to fix the problem.
No. 15, May 17, 2018 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons, Feldenkrais ® Practitioner When was the last time you did something for the first time? Be here now. When Ram Dass (aka Richard Alpert) first issued his dictum for a full life in 1971, I was skeptical. That’s it? Be here
No. 14, December 26, 2017 THE WELLNESS SALON Musings on wellness from Donna Simmons, Feldenkrais ® Practitioner Weber’s law, also called Weber-Fechner law, is a historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus. The law states that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant
Ms. Brody explores treating chronic pain through movement by using the Feldenkrais Method.