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The Vets iRest Forum above is a closed online community for Vets who have been working with me using the iRest techniques for alleviating P.T.S.D. Thank you, in advance, for sharing your experience, strength & hope. This is a give and take tool for finding and giving support whenever you need it - any time, day or night. It beats having to wait until dawn on the nights when your mind is on overdrive.

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Read the article recommending FELDENKRAIS and guided visualization for alleviating chronic pain without drugs in the Jan./Feb. issue of AARP Magazine.

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Read tips on how to formulate your intention (Sankalpa) to best harness the power of turning resolutions into spontaneous new behaviors.

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We provide resources for the study of three powerful practices for emotional and physical well-being: FELDENKRAIS, & iRest Meditation & Qigong. These are simple, profound vehicles for self-care, mindfulness, and spontaneous inspiration to alleviate the universal tendency to live on autopilot. New studies in neurology claim we are only conscious of 5% of our decisions! Here, you will find a wealth of support for an expansive life...for perhaps it is consciousness that really moves you. Consider this, and please join us in the incredible and often surprising journey of self-directed awareness...


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How to make the most of the FELDENKRAIS recordings, so that the path you follow to greater comfort and function can be self-directed. Read More »

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This is a short beginners iRest meditation for you to try. Read More »

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A second breathing lesson in the FELDENKRAIS Method of AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT that provides a whole new level of comfort by helping you lengthen the sides of yourself (including your neck). Read More »

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"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi

"Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north."  - Tibetan Saying

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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"I struggled to understand ad reconcile how Western civilization, having achieved some outstanding accomplishments, could so often contribute to rather than alleviate human suffering...To remake the world, it seemed we needed to rethink it. After all, solutions depend on how problems are framed, the context within which they exist...Chinese medicine echos the logic of quantum physics, which suggests that we exist in a relative, process-oriented universe in which there is no 'objective' world separable from living subjects.The essential questions cannot be resolved by measuring static 'things'; rather, answers become stories about interactions and relationships. Within this paradigm contradictions are not only sanctioned, but prevail, and truth is purely contextual. In contrast with our conventional Western tendency to draw shapr lines of distinctions, Chinese thought does not strictly determine the boundaries between rest and motion, time and space, mind and matter, sickness and health..."

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