…by Emily Glidden In my work with horseback riders, I’m frequently amazed at how changes in the rider’s body are reflected in the horse’s. When the rider loosens her back, the horse’s back loosens also. When the rider frees up her shoulders, the horse’s shoulders also become freer. It’s a fascinating result of two nervous …
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SíA….a quick and easy self-care program to free yourself from pain and expand your mind body connections! SíA is our new internet-based Mind Body Studies learning platform for pain management and augmenting healing skill sets, through easy to follow videos, that allows you freedom to choose your own way! After fifty years of sharing this work through workshops and courses, we have heard your desires for …
Preface With 50 years of teaching all over the world, in multiple cultures, testing and distilling philosophies of life and action, we bring you these simple unifying principles that make sense in all situations and make life easier. We have applied these principles in thought and action, in movement and in discussion. These principles are …
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After many years of requests from practitioners, the Trainers at MBS Academy have published the first edition of MBS Movement Lesson transcripts. In this book, you will find eight of the ‘classic’ lessons transcribed into easy to use formats for you to present in Group Classes to your clients. Enjoy! Preface This collection of Movement …
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“Nothing is permanent about our behaviour patterns except our belief that they are so.” ― Moshé Feldenkrais Anxiety can take many forms, from panic attacks and social anxiety to phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It’s quite normal to feel anxiety from time to time, but for many of us, it can keep us from doing what we …
MBS lessons do not heal me. Instead, the movements are the pen that I use to mentally and emotionally rewrite my story, outside of the diagnostic label from a doctor’s office, something more than a box with a pill that promises relief. Using chemistry, a drug can give someone an alternate state of mind so …
February 15, 2014. The doctor tells me, “You fell while you were upside-down? Just take it easy and you’ll be fine.” Oookay. I think I can take 9 things off my 50-item to-do list. Maybe. Teaching, working as a resident advisor and finishing school while practicing acrobatics doesn’t leave room for much else. February 20, …
I think it can shortcut a lot of the learning process that we are doing in the studio. Instead of repeating an exercise a hundred times, we just have to stop and do it slowly, with awareness – and very soon, it’s there. So, it needs to be complementary. Somatic work is entering the schools …
For both of us, this work has allowed maturation and a change in the quality of life. It happens through a difference in awareness and through learning how to solve problems. In conventional therapy, there is no such model that also helps children to become aware, doing things for themselves. In that way, this work is …
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An interview by Cydria Schaefer, June 27, 2015 The moment I tune into my body, I’m here. I’m not in the future, and I’m not in the past. So I think that is one of the key contributions to living more alive. Sa Chien Khaw and Simon Wong graduated from the Mind Body Studies Academy Foundation Training in …
Finding our true potential 