New Study Confirms – The First Thing Your Doctor Recommends for Back Pain Only Works As Well As Placebo

An extremely well-designed study, published today in The Lancet, confirms what those of us who work with back pain patients know all too well: taking Tylenol for acute back pain…

Brain Food

Learning a new language, instead of using Luminosity, et al., is like eating a healthy diet, instead of taking supplements. Check out this article about one person’s experience with learning…

Direct Brain Recording

Science continues to investigate the mysteries of the brain. This article gives a nice explanation of a new approach, Direct Brain Recording. DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) is funding…

Your Brain Wants a Good Night’s Sleep

Not that you need a researcher to tell you, but science is spending a lot of time looking at how much better we do with a the right quality and…

Supplements and Health

  Most adult Americans take supplements of one sort or another. And while there is a lot of controversy swirling around the effectiveness of supplements, there is also the question…

More Evidence Sensitive People Are Better Than the Rest of Us

It’s absolutely clear that some people are just more sensitive. A lot of them find their way to Feldenkrais class – a safe place to acknowledge and use sensitivity, to…

Bones, Muscles, Strength, and Belly Dancing

Ruthy Alon, one of Dr. Feldenkrais’s first students, said this about strength training: “When you talk about strength, you think about muscles; I think about alignment of bones. When you…

Your Brain, Poetry & Who You Share a Birthday With

When was the last time someone read you poetry? Maybe you remember a fellow student stumbling over Shakespeare, or a stern teacher belting out “Charge of the Light Brigade.” That’s…

Are You Ready to Do What You Want? State Change and Flexible Minds

This article in the New Yorker gave me a day of hopeful feelings about the human race. OK, so a lot of the research it describes confirms that humans are…

Reasons to Move – Zumba Classes!

First in an Occasional Series Human beings gotta move. Despite creeping sedentariness, as long as we are alive, movement is involved. I’ve met a lot of wonderful people involved in all…