January
2009 Newsletter
Greetings
of the New Year!
Many of us are just
finally tucked back into a consistent
practice after the holiday hiatus.
This newsletter
looks both forward and backwards as
a reminder of where we have been in
2008 and what is ahead of us. The focus
towards the end of the year was and
still is the refined usage of the Psoas
muscles and how they influence the
overall suspension system that is key
to both effective upright and upside
down existence.
YOGA
IN THE PINES
“Yoga
in the Pines” in September
allowed us to step outside of the
studio and thus outside some of our
practice, teaching and assumptive
habits. In Idyllwild, many folks
initiated and then built on changes
for the low end of the Psoas that
created a support system for addressing
the upper end of Psoas during the
last months of the year. There are
some wonderful pictures of almost
everyone who attended. See me if
you are interested in viewing them.
We welcomed two new students who
are deeply committed to The Thinking
Body-The Feeling Mind® and we
had and still have a lot of interest
from the local community in our returning
again this year.
  
LOS
ANGELES DANCE INVITATIONAL 2008
Linda Lack, Ph.D
performed Spirit Wolf on a concert
honoring Edward Villella. Villella
who was severely injured early in his
career, was interested in the fact
that Lack was still performing in her
sixties. The oldest person on stage,
Lack was then the only performer that
evening who actually experienced and
remembers the magnificence of Villella’s
presence and technique. (please refer
to the article in the February 9 & 16
2009 New Yorker page 84 titled Local
Hero by Joan Acocella) The poignant
conversation with Villella prompted
us to think about the fact that the
construction world, the office/administrative
world and the general working world
have ergonomics and OSHA, but the movement
world has no equivalent. The Thinking
Body-The Feeling Mind® is ergonomics
for the movement world.
TEACHERS
Both Molly Hagen
and Linda Lack have been celebrated
and given kudos by students who have
contacted their respective organizations
to let them know how important their
teachers have been for facilitating
life/body changes. The Thinking Body-The
Feeling Mind® is indeed an effective
technique. However it has always occurred
to me that any technique, organization,
process is only as effective as the
human beings who teach, lead or disseminate
it. The acknowledgement and appreciation
is most welcome. These are posted at
the studio.
SYTAR
Lack has been invited
and will be a Practice Presenter at
the Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research
on March 7, 2009, 4:30 – 6:30
at the Marriott LAX.
As one of the new “kids” on
the block we expected to have a smallish
group. To date there are 65 people
signed up. We are both honored and
grateful for the invitation and the
interest. Thank you to all of the teachers
of The Thinking Body-The Feeling Mind® who
will be participating and demonstrating.
And thank you to Kai Landworth who
is doing the large art posters. We
hope to have our first formal CD – Mini-lectures
on the Essential Principles of Body
Movement - by that time. Thanks to
Hagit Worona for the graphics.
MOVEMENT
THERAPY AT LOYOLA MARYMONT
We will join Larry
Payne’s LMU Yoga Therapy program
once again, a six hour marathon on
head, neck, shoulder girdle problems
and resolutions.
MID
2009
Mid 2009 we are
invited to teach and we hope that budget
problems do not prevent our visit to
Suny Purchase Conservatory of Dance.
One of our fondest
wishes for this year is that we visit
Gretchen Kreiger’s home teaching
base, Swami Chetanananda’s community
in Portland. Conversations with these
folks and also with the Parkinson Community
are happening simultaneously with the
writing of this newsletter.
We are presently
focusing on hips and the interrelationship
of the hip, psoas and leg.
Be well. Please
do not forget your practice during
these chaotic and sometimes troubled
times. It is a kindness and a stabilizer.
Kind Regards,
Linda Lack, Ph.
D
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