The Balance Center

Do you live on the West Coast of USA?

Do you want a great 20 minute workout at 9am every morning?

OR

Do you start your mornings with a boost of energy and vitality?

I have a few questions that to ask about your morning routine. In exchange I’d like to give you a 5 video series of my Somatic Strengthening 20 minute workout.

Write BLOOM in the chat or message me directly.

FREE Encore Performance 👏🏽

So happy that these useful and informative workshops are being made available again.
At no cost, but only for a short time.

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Feeling Fantastically Fabulous in February with Feldenkrais
Happening inside the Movement Online Academy
12th February to 28th February

Every 24 hours a new lesson and presentation unlocks

You'll leave with a newfound appreciation for how you can help yourself, and you'll be equipped with tools and techniques that you can use in your daily life.

“Join Elizabeth Larkam for the latest Moved to Learn! webinar on June 23 when her guests will be Staffan Elgelid & Chrish Kresge co-editors of a brand-new book, 'The Feldenkrais Method® - Learning Through Movement'. Chrish and Staffan are on a mission to bring the Feldenkrais Method® and the concept of Somatic Education to a wide audience.
Register today for this free educational event to learn more about the Feldenkrais Method® and the concept and practice of improving human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement."
LINK TO REGISTER BELOW

What’s on your mind?
The new summer series starts of Feldenkrais classes at Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan begins this week.

Online, in the comfort of your own home.

Take the survey and let us know what interests, problem areas or special interests you would like to explore in this series.
Whether you're a newbie or an old hand these classes provide practical, palpable self-care tools.

How cute, right? Baby goats!

What can a playful and curious perspective bring to your pilates workout?
I’m sure the last thing you think about when you see a kid is core strength. You probably think nimble, quick, alert, malleable and springy.
That’s my approach to teaching pilates exercises.
With a secret weapon.
(Okay it’s not that big a secret but it’s an often overlooked or ignored skill.)
Unlike a goat you weren’t born with this ability. You developed it gradually over time, through trial and error and experience.
Your ability to sense yourself - accurately and honestly - is key to being able to move safely, skillfully and dynamically.
Join me at 6pm NYC-time on Tuesdays for a carefully curated blend of dynamic stability.
(LAZY) PILATES: a Feldenkrais fusion exploration
Tues 3pm PDT San Fran🍃 Tues 6pm EDT NYC🍃Tues 11pm London 🍃Wed 8am Syd AEST 🍃 Wed 6am HK &Perth AWST🍃
(Lazy) Pilates:More Than Core
LIVE Zoom Class
Full-bodied, balanced, safe, global body-weight training
This strength focused program weaves in cognitive challenges that will help keep both your brain and body youthful. Experimenting with novel, unusual, and functional movement generates new brain cells connections to develop agility, strength, and vitality.
The syllabus is a distillation of 20+ years of experience of the Feldenkrais Method, Pilates, Anatomy study and therapeutic exercise.

The Role of Rest
Aim to balance your work with pleasure – it’s more than a luxury. Your body requires a balance of both activities (or lack of activity) to maintain good health. Stimulating and demanding activities require the sympathetic nervous system to respond – ‘fight or flight’. While activities that calm the system enhance the para-sympathetic response – the ‘rest and digest’ effect. Tuning into your physical self is a perfect way to bring on that restorative phase. Whether you want to improve the quality of your sleep or the intensity of your play - being able to down-regulate is critical to your overall health.
“Two states of existence are commonly distinguished; waking and sleeping. We shall define a third state: awareness. In this state the individual knows exactly what he is doing while awake.”
“Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.”
“To learn we need time, attention, and discrimination; to discriminate we must sense. This means that in order to learn we must sharpen our powers of sensing, and if we try to do most things by sheer force we shall achieve precisely the opposite of what we need.”
– Moshe Feldenkrais
LIVE ZOOM CLASS:
Deep dive, full lesson tonight: Join me for an hour long exploration into these movement at Thur 5pm PDT USA 🪐 Thur 8pm EDT NYC 🪐 Fri 12pm Eastern AUS 🪐 Fri 9am Western AUS
LINK BELOW

80% of adults experience low back pain at some point in their lives. Conventional advice is to stabilize the core. But when you look at the statistics only half of those suffering lower back pain get relief from physical therapy or core strengthening.
The problem is that most of these treatments are one-size-fits-all. The protocols aren’t tailored to the individual.
That’s where the Feldenkrais Method is different.
Rather than copying, or making the same shapes as illustrated in a manual or video, Feldenkrais lessons ask you to feel your way into a bespoke version of the movement.
Adapting and adjusting while paying keen attention to your comfort is key for changing your pain.
An 8-week Feldenkrais study showed that it leads to decreased pain and perceived disability, while. Increasing function and endurance.
Check out the article that exposes the fiction about what most people believe is the cause of their back pain.
“The Myth of Core Stability,” Professor Eyal Lederman, Physiotherapist, Ph.D., and Doctor of Osteopathy in London.
LIVE ZOOM CLASS:
Deep dive, full lesson tonight: Join me for an hour long exploration into this very personal solution to pain
Thur 5pm PDT USA 🪐 Thur 8pm EDT NYC 🪐 Fri 12pm Eastern AUS 🪐 Fri 9am Western AUS
LINK IN BIO

(Lazy) Pilates for a balanced body and calmer mind 🤯
How can movement be both calming and invigorating; mobilizing and stabilizing; engaging and restoring? When the center of your focus is sensation - physical sensation to be exact (or proprioception).
Safety and efficiency is our priority in tonights class. Engaging musculature through balanced action, to develop strength in symmetry. Focusing on the bones their role of transmitting forces you will find power and lightness in your exercise class that will follow into your daily-life.

Come to (Lazy)pilates and find out how to listen to yourself, adapt to your needs, and grow a stronger YOU.

No experience necessary.
Equipment: For todays class you will need a scarf (non-stretch material) or a soft belt.

(Lazy) Pilates: a Feldenkrais fusion exploration
Tues 3:30pm PDT San Fran 🪐 Tues 6:30pm EDT NYC 🪐 Wed 10:30am Syd AEST 🪐 Wed 7am HK &Perth AWST
NOTE NEW START TIME TODAY
See below link to register with online calendar.

What do you do when the old system and beliefs no longer serve you?
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Do you question commitment and skill or do you reconsider the value of those original ideas?
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Orit had always believed that hard work and perseverance were all that were needed for success. Her discipline and dedication to working her body rigorously daily seemed to have backfired on her. But in her darkest hour she remembered what she had learned in my class. I’ll let her tell the story.
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We started meeting online for twenty minutes every morning of the week. It was a present for me. Encouraged a regimen of morning routine and taught me how to better observe the body. And observe it in ways that are different from the precise and important observations I acquired in the six years of Iyengar yoga. They too are my companions during this pandemic.
Last week my back gave up for some reason (most likely overdoing In yoga...), and after a few days of minimal movement I started doing some of the movements that I remembered from our work together. And those, together with your voice in my head - don’t work in pain, listen to your body, experiment with different versions... - made the difference. I suddenly feel that those routines settled in my brain in a way that I can start using them on my own.
The freedom of movement that came back today after about 40 minutes of your exercises made me feel mobile again!
So thank you for patiently implementing these ideas in my head!
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🤨❓How are your old ideas really just outdated beliefs that are holding your back❓
👂🏼♦️Change the way you relate to your body by tuning-in to what your body is telling you.