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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.

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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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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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Quick Tip for Balance - Use Your Ears

Quick Tip for Balance – Use Your Ears

The ears hold a powerful function in the body for balance.  We have internal structures in our ears that provide feedback to the brain of what is “level.”  In standing posture, you can use the holes in your ears to provide a landmark in your internal mental map that lines up vertically over the rest of the joints– shoulders, hips and ankles.  This ear hole marks the plumbline for vertical…

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Ankle Stability for Walking and Running (Lesson 1, Part 2)

Ankle Stability for Walking and Running (Lesson 1, Part 2)

When your feet have a solid connection to the ground, there is a clear sense of support.  Your chest, arms and entire upper body can relax when with solid footing.  This support calms your nervous system and can help reduce emotional anxiety.

Ankle support builds confidence on uneven terrain in walking, hiking, running and is necessary for fluid footwork for dance and sports.  The following video…

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Improve Breathing: 4 Easy Practices

Improve Breathing: 4 Easy Practices

  Breathing Tips- Getting More Mileage The past two months, I’ve been teaching how to improve the capacity of the breath.  Improved breathing helps with energy, stamina and endurance. Relaxed and deeper breathing also helps with emotional balance and mental stability.

There are many tips for improving breathing .  Below are four effective tools: (more…)

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