Do you have your dreams, or do your dreams have you? Do you have your feelings or do your feelings have you? Do you have your job or does your job have you? Hold it lightly, then you can put it down when you have had enough. Miriam Grace I’m aware that sometimes we have […]
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Originally posted on May 24, 2012 by Miriam Grace When the tissues and structures of the body are engaged and held in stillness… In that stillness there is opportunity for change and enhanced self-awareness. Phil Greenfield I attended Phil Greenfield’s http://www.corealignment.co.uk/ talk on Zero Balancing nine years ago. I know that I have learned and developed so much
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Click the picture for the full Guardian article! Oh Gwyneth! What were you thinking! Ha ha Why is it so hard to do the right thing when it comes to losing weight? This is a question that so many of my clients have asked me and this is a partial answer that has taken me
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This morning I am interviewing my lovely yoga teacher, Phillipa Wilson over breakfast. Phillipa works in Derby and I have asked her to put her class schedule in this interview as I’d love for people to experience the enrichment that yoga brings to my life. Phillipa is quite a special friend and I hope you
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Wednesday Breakfast with Miriam Blog – with Phil Greenfield Hi today is my ‘Wednesday Breakfast with Miriam Blog’ and I’m chatting with Phil Greenfield about Zero Balancing and his book….‘Unravelling – Letting Go, Getting Well’ Good morning Phil, what are you eating for breakfast and what is your view as you eat? Hi Miriam. I’m sitting at home in
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When the tissues and structures of the body are engaged and held in stillness… In that stillness there is opportunity for change and enhanced self-awareness. Phil Greenfield I attended Phil Greenfield’s http://www.corealignment.co.uk/ talk on Zero Balancing this week. It seemed very timely following my experience with Authentic Movement therapy. One of the descriptions he used, regarding
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Yesterday I spoke of dancing with ourselves, and finding our own natural rhythms, adjustments, fluidity of movements, that come out of listening to ourselves and our bodies. I wonder if it is co-incidence that as a society we have moved from dancing in couples to dancing individually in large groups? It seems a significant reflection
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Dance like no one is watching… Last week I had a further valuable experience of ‘going within’ with eyes closed. I was experiencing a therapy called Authentic Movement Therapy on a workshop. I won’t explain all that we did on this training, but just describe that by the second half of the workshop we were
When Imogen http://www.imogenragone.net/blog/ was helping me with releasing the tension in my body during an Alexander Technique Lesson a couple of weeks ago. She observed that I closed my eyes while adjusting. I found that this helped me get a sense of my new position, that I could feel the difference in my body more easily.