What steps can you take today to become a good ancestor - a good ancestor to the future generations from whom we borrow the earth while we're here? A Good ancestor to your future self's wisdom and wellbeing?
Welcome to our online learning area. We offer regular online courses - some are live and some are pre-recorded. You are warmly invited to join us. You'll also find free resources below. May it all be of benefit!
FIFTEEN FANTASTIC FELDY LESSONS
We had an inspired lunch date at a Thai restaurant as we planned it out, each of us writing down our favorite fifteen lessons between bites of green curry. We knew we’d have some common choices, but wow – we kept being inspired by one another’s choices, saying, “Oooooh, we need that one too!”
As beloved poet, Mary Oliver wisely wrote,
"You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."
Join us in this course to dive into that rich animal-body learning. Sign up anytime and delight in exploring these potent, gentle movement lessons anytime you like. $150 is the cost for the series and the lessons are yours to keep forever.
We are thrilled to share our newest online offering:
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Fifteen 30-40 minute audio recordings of some of our favorite guided Feldy lessons which you can do anywhere. You just need an internet connection and a comfortable place on the ground. For one lesson you’ll need a firm chair to sit on, and for many of them you may like a blanket or mat on the floor for your comfort.
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Twice weekly mindful movement inquiries that follow the movement lessons to help you integrate the powerful changes you’ll experience in your body and your movement into your daily life.
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Brief experiential anatomy lessons to help you see/feel/sense your body with greater clarity.
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Inspiration for your ongoing learning and everyday improvement. We are genuinely thrilled by this work and our enthusiasm is contagious. We intend to leave you enthralled by your own resilient body-mind and wowed by your profound capacity for learning at any age.
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All the materials will be hosted in a user-friendly online class forum (Ruzuku) and you’ll be able to download all audio recordings to a device of your choice.
- You’d like to do Feldenkrais lessons more regularly without having to leave your home
- You’d like to learn to move in ways that are more sustainable, enjoyable, and efficient for your body as a whole
- You’d like to grow or deepen a mindfulness practice to include your body and your everyday movements
- You’d like to feel better and experience less pain, strain and effort and more ease, pleasure, and wholeness
- You’d like to grow a new, non-objectified relationship with your body
- You want to learn to trust yourself more deeply
- You’d like to learn to enjoy slowing down to the speed of life
- You want to befriend yourself and embody lovingkindness
- You’d like to make more room for YOU in your body, and less room for outdated habits of tightening, shortening, and deleting yourself
- You’d like to improve your brain’s map of your body
- You’d like to grow your attentional flexibility
- You’d like smart ways to embody and practice positive neuroplasticity - changing your brain and your body for the better no matter how old you are
- You’d like to grow a new, compassionate, life-giving relationship with your aches and pains
- You’d like to more fully inhabit your body
- You’d like to breathe with more ease
- You want better posture without self-criticism and painful effort
- You’d like more flexibility
- You’d like to feel more centered, grounded, and whole
- You’d like to release tension in your jaw, back, neck, shoulders, hips, feet, spine and more!
- You’d like smart and simple practices to reduce or eliminate pain and the liberate yourself from the harmful movement habits that create pain
- You’d like to feel better and move better for the rest of your life
Join us!
The cost for this 8-week course is just $150, and the lessons are yours to work with forever.
Please read our cancellation policy and then Sign up right here.
The Art of Attention: A Month of Invitations Inspired by the Poetry of Mary Oliver
In addition to being a gifted and beloved poet, Mary Oliver has been one of my most profound teachers in the Art of Attention. When I first started reading her work long ago, I remember thinking, “We live in the same world, but wow, I want to have what she’s having!”
Apprenticing myself to her poetry as invitations to inhabit the world with wonder, curiosity, and a presence readiness to be awed has been and continues to be life-changing.
Let’s spend a month together relishing the teachings in Mary’s words, inviting us to pay profound attention and grow our embodied intimacy with the gift of being alive in this wondrous, fragile world.
With Mary as our guide and with me as your co-pilot, let’s spend a month refining the art of paying attention.
While this class was originally recorded in May of 2019, you can now access the lessons on demand whenever you sign up. Lessons will arrive daily – though there’s no rush to work through the materials. You can take a year or more to savor the lessons if you like. They’re yours.
Each lesson will include an exploration of one or more of my favorites of Mary’s poems and an invitation to take it with you into your day. (I won’t be using just the most popular and well-known of her poems, but some of the countless other gems.)
Please join ERIN for Root & Rise
A free online course to support you in growing:
** the direct experience of being grounded
** a living, somatic relationship with the Earth
** simple somatic tools to access your body's gateways to ease and presence
** a guided practice of inner listening, sensing into "what is being called forth in me at this time?"
** An introduction to The Three Stories & The Healing Spiral of The Work That Reconnects
All this is offered through guided practices and invitations via video, audio, and written formats, and you'll be able to access it on your own time and in the comfort of your own home. The estimated value is $125. Your cost: Free!
(Plus some of your precious time, attention, and practice.)
SOME THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEP - A FREE COURSE
Some Things To Do When You Can’t Sleep (instead of stressing out about not sleeping)
A collection of short guided practices from Erin. Download the audio recordings and listen in the wee hours or whenever you need a relaxing, embodied break. Offered with love.
More Free Resources from Our Hearts to Yours
When the pandemic hit, we were inspired to share many free/by donation community offerings - live workshops, lessons, guided practices, and a poetry party. We've recorded them and they're here for you at anytime. We hope you find solace, beauty, and inspiration.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO A SAMPLE LESSON? Click the button below to listen to Carl teach an Awareness Though Movement Lesson: “Softening the Chest” at no charge
Basics of Back Care
- 4 LESSONS AND TALKS TO DOWNLOAD 1.) Introductions2.) ATM lesson. Erin, Connecting With The Ground3.) Talk: Principles of A Healthy Back4.) ATM lesson. Carl, Opening Breathing Space5.) Discussion, Questions, Priciples6.) ATM Lesson. Erin, Sweeping Attention With The Breath 7.) ATM Lesson. Carl, Brief Sitting Refreshers
A Good Foundation
- 4 LESSONS TO DOWNLOAD1.) Erin, Introduction and Foot ATM Lesson2.) ATM Lesson. Carl, Moving the Sole of the Foot on the Floor.3.) Q and A4.) ATM Lesson. Erin, Standing Movements5.) ATM Lesson. Carl, Bending Legs from The Pelvis.
Your Ribs Aren't a Cage
- 4 LESSONS AND TALKS 1.) ATM Lesson. Erin, Bending to The Side, Awakening The Ribs.2.) ATM Lesson. Carl, Bending/ Awakening Ribs part 2.3.) ATM Lesson. Erin, Rib Movement on Back and Belly4.) Discussion/ Poems5.) Carl, Resource Growing: Unconditional Friendliness6.) ATM Lesson. Carl, Bending, Bringing Leg Across.