Sensing Vitality

Enliven Your Life with Nature and Mind-Body Connection

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqJVpkL7cI)  Great lesson to help stabilize hips and back, with back injury or hip injury/surgery, but also for folks who want to improve running or walking form   by Annie Thoe

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWV94DDWbbY)  Relax Mind & Body and improve your breathing capacity with Annie Thoe

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYWPskOBEuM)  My super short explanation how we get “magic” results using the Feldenkrais Method® to improve movement, alignment, posture, awareness and ease by Annie Thoe

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7PDQ_tyrKA)  Tone and align your back - for all activities, hiking, walking, sports-- simple Feldenkrais Lesson to tone and stabilize by Annie Thoe

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quick self-massage practice to clear tension and refresh entire body with Annie Thoe

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSWY94GIeM)

Quickly Clear Tension from your body, quickly de-stress with this Feldenkrais Lesson by Annie Thoe

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Simple and fun way to relax and open your chest and shoulders using the Feldenkrais Method® and a rock!

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On Balance

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Bird Medicine Retreat: Vision, Voice & Wings

Bird Medicine Retreat: Vision, Voice & Wings

      Join me this March 3-6, Spring 2016 Thurs Eve – Sunday 4pm Mosswood Hollow Retreat Center Duvall, WA – 45 min from Seattle (Shuttle from Seatac Airport Available) Register Here Online

What Nature Awareness and Guided Movement Can Do….

Birds are the harbinger of awareness in the natural world.  Their keen eyesight and complex songs broadcast the news of what is happening in the surrounding…

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Vitalize with Nature & Feldenkrais Retreats - 2016

Vitalize with Nature & Feldenkrais Retreats – 2016

          Looking for a deep nature immersion experience in a comfortable setting?  Annie Thoe, Feldenkrais & Nature Awareness Teacher offers vitalizing retreats to access transformative tools within your body and the natural world.  Whether it’s healing, growth and life direction you are seeking, a guided retreat in nature is deeply nourishing.

For more information and to reserve your space for…

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Recommendation: Retreat for Winter Two dear colleagues of mine, Carrie Lafferty, GCFP, PT and Cathy Englehart, DC are hosting a 

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BALANCE Practice: Using Nature to Balance your Mind and Body

BALANCE Practice: Using Nature to Balance your Mind and Body

When I got irritable as a little kid, my mother would send me out the door with the command, “Annie, go outside and play!”   After a few hours of climbing trees, crawling under bushes, looking for treasure rocks along the driveway or making piles of leaves to hide in, I came back for dinner in a much better mood.  How did playing outside balance me? 

I have a practice using nature to help align…

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Tree Medicine: Mentors for Core Stability & Strength

Tree Medicine: Mentors for Core Stability & Strength

Trees offer a wide range of medicine from physical healing to emotional comfort and physical protection.  In the healing work I do using movement, sensory awareness and the Feldenkrais Method®, I look to trees for guidance in how to stand centered, strong and tall.  In my retreats using nature and Feldenkrais lessons, I use the natural world as a co-teacher with my work.

Here’s one story about…

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Best RELIEF for Back Pain, Spasms or When Your Back is "Out"

Best RELIEF for Back Pain, Spasms or When Your Back is “Out”

This gentle, passive lesson is for when you have back pain and can’t get off the floor.  Unless you need to call 911 or get to the hospital, stay put and rest.  REST is essential, and getting in the right positions makes a huge difference in the speed of recovery.  This video lesson will help reduce the pain and also help with back alignment.

What you’ll need:   Find a couch or chair to put you…

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Tuning Forks For Stroke or Brain-Injured to "Make a Map" for Movement

Tuning Forks For Stroke or Brain-Injured to “Make a Map” for Movement

When someone’s brain has suffered damage from stroke or injury, it’s difficult to assess what parts of their internal mapping system were affected.  Speech and memory may be scrambled, one side of the body may be numb, paralyzed or tingling.

With my work using the Feldenkrais Method®, I use touch to make a very clear skeletal framework to restore my client’s sense of their internal map for…

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Nourish Yourself to Your Core: this June 6 & 7

Nourish Yourself to Your Core: this June 6 & 7

  “Your Spine as The Tree of Life” Feldenkrais & Nature Retreat with Annie Thoe, Feldenkrais Practitioner

June 6 & 7, 2015  – Saturday/Sunday Mosswood Hollow Retreat Center Duvall, WA

Would you like to feel more comfortable and confident with your back?  Supple?  Stronger?

Join me this June for a nourishing retreat experience.  I’ll be sharing my favorite tools for aligning the spine, healing and…

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