At 4:30 am yesterday, I woke my husband up: “I need you to film me talking about Sacred Human Geometry before the Uber gets here at 5:30 am.” I’d been dream-thinking about it all night long. We flipped on all the available lights in my mom’s house. Being a sport, Cliff kindly obliged, holding the camera…
The most exciting field of mind-body science today is “Neuroplasticity,” which Moshe Feldenkrais pioneered after WWII. A black belt in Judo as well as a scientist, Feldenkrais demonstrated that our ability to heal and self-improve through moving mindfully “has no limit”…
Do you ever catch yourself “checking out” during your movement practice or workout routine? Maybe your body moves, but your mind drifts. Presence lifts us out of the ho-hum and invites creativity, awareness, and…
At the heart of the Academy lives a strong commitment to cherish the precious human body. Our first standard, Non-Violence: Keeping the Body Safe & Healthy, emphasizes creating practices and environments in which…
You’ve been on our minds. Since we opened the Academy in 2021, we’ve been waiting and waiting to invite you to Hawai’i to train with us IN PERSON…
The two instructors stood at the front of the room. One was a very fit middle-aged man modeling the movements we were to make, and the other was a…
I created the Academy of Mindful Movement to support teachers and coaches around the world who want to lead movement in a way that’s intelligent, safe, and deeply human. Do we share that desire? Our Academy training focuses not just on your technique, but on helping movement instructors like you to tune into the real people in front of us: our students, our clients…
At the Academy of Mindful Movement, we train instructors and coaches to do something revolutionary: Shift from teaching movement as a fixed form – and start guiding it as a process of discovery. In our most recent PlayLab, we focused on a core…
The more spontaneous I allow myself to be as an experienced movement instructor, the more the magic happens. Why is that? If I’m in my…
Some coaches gear their approach for their most hardcore, competitive clients/players/ participants. That high-pressure approach wasn’t the most successful for me as a…