My October 7th Story

My October 7th Story

On Friday October 6th, as my husband was getting ready for bed, minutes before midnight, our family in Israel contacted us to let us know that a terror attack was going on in the south of Israel. My husband has a family in Kibbutz Saad, right on the border with Gaza. No one knew yet the extent of the attack or the horrors that would unfold in the next 48 hours. We spent that Saturday sitting by our phones waiting for updates, texting everyone we knew to check on how they were doing.

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Free-Form Work

Free-Form Work

The whole reason for being free is to bring the gifts to the world that you came here for.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes PhD, The Power of the Crone

Free-form work is something we can all do naturally. It is the ability we have in us to express the wisdom of our bodies and minds to achieve balance, harmony, and self-healing. All we have to do is to allow it to happen. Free-form work is so versatile and broad that it allows each person to change movement, thinking, and behavioral patterns in a way that is spontaneous and often (though not always) enjoyable.

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Sea Turtle Nesting Season

Sea Turtle Nesting Season

It’s sea turtle nesting season here in Florida.

On Mother’s Day, my mom and I took a night walk on the beach.

I pointed at some sea turtle nests and explained that some of them get marked the next morning with white sticks. I looked for sea turtle tracks in the sand to show her, but on that evening, after crowds of people had spent their day on the beach, there were no sea turtle tracks to be found.

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Eye Body Connection

Eye Body Connection

Although the Paula Method was not originally meant to treat eye issues, the last eighty years have shown us that, in fact, it is highly effective in improving eye health. There are nearly 50 eye exercises in the Paula Method. Some activate the sphincters of the eyes, some are movement exercises, and others are so gentle that we mostly just imagine them.

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Is it Paula?

Is it Paula?

One of the things I like about teaching groups is that when someone asks a question, everyone else can learn from it. Often students have similar thoughts but don’t dare to say anything. Recently, a student of mine asked if what she was doing when she practiced on her own was “Paula”.

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Free – form practice, now a book in English too!

Free – form practice, now a book in English too!

When teaching the Paula Method to new students I often find myself debating whether to teach another exercise or direct them towards free form work. You see, the exercises feel like an anchor. They are more predictable in a way. There’s an action and an outcome of that action. In contrast, free form is abstract; it’s completely unpredictable. It requires establishing trust, developing self-confidence, and allowing self-expression.

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5 Reasons to birth with the Paula Method

5 Reasons to birth with the Paula Method

Childbirth is one of the most important events in life. (More important, I dare say, than a wedding.) Your birth experience-whether empowering, traumatic, or somewhere in between- will have a lasting effect on your future, your baby’s future, and the future of your partnership. People tend to spend a great deal of time (not to mention money) on preparations for their wedding day.

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