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“It’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you take for granted.”
— Bertrand Russell
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This year listen to your body

My New Year’s note from 2009: What if this could be the year you made peace with your body?

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Five Best Calming Strategies
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Dementia and Hard Truths

What is living well with dementia?

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Five things to help your hips and low back

Each of these will take five minutes of your time.

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Why Do Feldenkrais: In Their Own Words

I've written much over the years about my own experience. I've asked other people to write this month's article by commenting on why they do Feldenkrais.

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Throwdown: Willpower vs. Compassion

Willpower never works for maintaining self-control.

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weakness vs. strength -- I mean efficiency!

People often come into my office saying, "I'm weak, my muscles aren't firing, I need to strengthen my core, my glutes, my shoulder, my back..."

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how should I move my arm?

In school it is what we learn that's important. The quicker we can produce information, the smarter we appear.

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three simple ways to help an achy back

Who doesn't struggle with an achy back? No matter how you struggle or what you do, try this:
 

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Help for Tight Hips

First of all, tight hips do not exist by themselves. The experience of contracted hip flexors is a relationship between many functions, most notably the hips, low back, and belly. Here are some options to help alleviate this experience

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Forget to Remember

Moshe Feldenkrais never taught anyone how to move. He taught how to forget.

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Help for anxiety

One of the major ways we construct feelings of anxiety is by pulling ourselves up and away from the ground. A sense of physical support from the ground is basic to any sense of emotional security and well being.

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Help for sciatica

Many people come to me with sciatica. One of the causes of sciatica is the lack of movement in the hip joint and an excess of compression in the lumbar spine, which sends the lovely shooting pain down the leg.
 

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How do we improve movement?

An intellectual understanding of mechanics does not improve movement. 

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Three Simple Moves to Keep Your Spine Flexible

Side-bend, extension, and flexion are fundamental to all human movement. Follow these instructions to prevent stiffness and tension. 

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How Zoe Can Help

People usually come to me with a chronic movement limitation, physical complaint, or a seemingly immutable experience of stress and tension after they have tried everything else and feel desperate and in need of hope.

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Zoe Birch
2825 Marine Street, Suite 103, Boulder, CO 80303,
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(720) 284-4306 zoe@zoebirch.com
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