Madam Mayo: Feldenkrais

Monday, December 09, 2019

A Writer's 12 Minute Tonic: Annie Thoe's Feldenkrais "Sliding Thumbs" Exercise to Free Your Neck and Shoulders

This blog posts on Mondays. As of 2019 the second Monday of the month is devoted to my writing workshop students and anyone else interested in creative writing. (You can find my workshop schedule and many more resources for writers on my workshop page.)

We writers don’t just live in our heads, of course: we all have bodies. If we are uncomfortable physically in any way it is not impossible to write, but it doesn’t help! Count me a big fan of Annie Thoe’s YouTube channel “Sensing Vitalty,” which is chock full of her free, easy to follow, and highly effective Feldenkrais exercises. A recent one she offers is this simple exercise to relieve shoulder and neck pain––which we all get from sitting scrunched in front of a computer screen, no? Like all Feldenkrais exercises >>CONTINUE READING THIS POST ON THE NEW PLATFORM AT WWW.MADAM-MAYO.COM

Monday, August 24, 2015

New to Feldenkrais? Check out these three videos: Chrish Kresge provides an informative introduction and a bit about frozen shoulders; Gary Waskowsky introduces Feldenkrais in about 7 minutes; and Annie Thoe explains the three principles in 5 minutes.

A few helpful and inspiring videos:

TO LOOSEN UP THE NECK

The 2-Minute Feldenkrais Miracle" to Free Up Your Stiff Neck,

with James Speer