Last year, 10 years after my accident, marked the point in my recovery where I have been out of pain longer than I was in pain. It seems silly, but that was a very big deal for me. In my mind, it felt like I could start over from zero. Not like it never happened, …
Mind-Body or Mind(minus)Body?
As a child, I learned that one must not speak of politics and religion in polite company. The weather was always a safe choice. The past year has been a challenging time both in the US and around the World, and I am finding myself in unfamiliar territory. I realized early on in my career …
Body Awareness: The danger of being too aware
Body Awareness is a popular term especially in yoga and Pilates circles, but what does it mean? Some would argue that being “body aware” is having a keen kinesthetic sense of how your body moves and feels in your environment at any point in time. One medical dictionary definition describes Body Awareness as “the felt …
Where on earth is your body?
Body Awareness is all the buzz in the world of movement, but what does it actually mean? Some would say that Body Awareness is having a keen understanding of where your body is in space and a sense of how it moves within it, while others might say that it is when you know that …