It’s not just about the body! Body language expert Lavinia Plonka brings recognition of the fullness of expression of our emotions into relationship with our body posture, gestures and breath using the lens of the Feldenkrais Method® with her signature Emotional Body® techniques. Lavinia has always been attracted to the expression of self through her love of movement and recognises the role her extensive creative life in mime, dance and theatre has played in her own conscious evolution. Integrating all the elements of her own deep humanistic quest towards self-actualization and creativity, Lavinia gives us a sense of embracing the wholeness of ourselves, helping us recognise our passions and fears in identifiable archetypes of human behaviour.

Lavinia explains for everyone how from within a place of personal safety in a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement or Functional Integration lesson, we can begin to explore and recognise not only physical and movement habits but patterns of emotional expression. Here we can use the power of where we place our attention to discover our unseen emotional habits, uncover our biases, and see for ourselves the stories our bodies tell to find more congruency, capacity and resilience to channel more efficacy into our lives. We can find links between our physical and emotional discomforts, learn from these expressions and reorganise to release ourselves from many fears or other self-limiting emotions. Lavinia champions that finding creativity within ourselves is accessible to all of us.

For practitioners, Lavinia suggests that using the Feldenkrais Method as a means to develop our authentic professional path includes following Moshe Feldenkrais’ lessons for ourselves. In integrating what we know of our emotional as well as cognitive and physical “self”  with ongoing discovery and interoceptive perception, we can give the best representation of our authentic selves to simply BE with our clients to help them to do the same for themselves.

Lavinia Plonka practises the Feldenkrais Method® as a teacher and assistant trainer and is the director of Asheville Movement Center in Asheville, NC, USA.

She runs Feldenkrais workshops, classes and retreats online and in person, and is a teacher of the Alba Method and an Emotional Body Instructor. She was an artist in residence for the Guggenheim Museum and movement consultant for theater and television companies around the world. Lavinia is a faculty member of the Shift Network and the author of several books and audio programs, including her best seller "What Are You Afraid Of?" which has been translated into five languages.

Link for all Lavinia’s resources:  https://laviniaplonka.com

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