Eve Bernfeld
Nothing Leads to Everything
In our ongoing exploration of Alexander Technique and non-doing, last week I had my college students read and discuss Ross Gay’s essay...
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Eve Bernfeld
Jun 3, 20222 min read
Resistance
The first time I recall feeling anxious before travel I was 29 years old. My dad was driving me to the airport for the trip of a...
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Eve Bernfeld
May 15, 20222 min read
There's No Such Thing as an Ant
I watched a sugar ant walk across my kitchen counter, knowing that a string of ants wouldn’t be far behind. And I found myself engaged...
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Eve Bernfeld
Mar 2, 20222 min read
Waste Not...
I was commiserating with a student yesterday about how hard it is to find time to dedicate to the Alexander Technique practice of lying...
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Eve Bernfeld
Oct 19, 20212 min read
Portrait of a Mother in Repose
Saturday is the one day I dispense with my morning routine. No scraping myself out of bed before my family to sweep, write and walk...
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Eve Bernfeld
Sep 1, 20212 min read
Five Things I’m Saying NO to So That I Can Say YES to What I Want
Lately, after a year and a half of dormancy, opportunities have started coming my way—things that elicit, as my friend Melissa would say,...
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Eve Bernfeld
Jul 20, 20213 min read
What If Judgment...*
1. What if judging myself (and the ensuing shame spiral) is just another habit that is not currently serving me? Could I approach my...
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Eve Bernfeld
Jul 8, 20213 min read
While I Eat
It is entirely possible (if inadvisable) for me to eat a meal while careening down the freeway at 65 miles per hour and simultaneously...
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Eve Bernfeld
May 3, 20213 min read
Self-Permission
Expressing ourselves through words or images or movement is not about “talent” or being “good enough” to be a professional
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Eve Bernfeld
Sep 2, 20203 min read
Is NO a Four-Letter Word?
Part 3: “Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.” I spent the better part of a recent Friday trying to get ahold of Oregon...
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Eve Bernfeld
Jul 21, 20203 min read
Is NO a Four-Letter Word?
Part 2: Without No, there can be no Yes.
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Eve Bernfeld
Mar 8, 20203 min read
Is NO a Four-Letter Word? Part 1: Ado Annie
I thanked the word NO, for giving me this much-needed solitude.
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Eve Bernfeld
Feb 6, 20203 min read
Fun With the Scientific Method
Asking the right questions might be most life-affirming favor we can do for someone. Or for ourselves.
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Eve Bernfeld
Jan 8, 20202 min read
It's the HOW
My ability to manage the HOW I do things is the difference between feeling steamrolled by my life and feeling like I can (just) manage it.
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Eve Bernfeld
Aug 7, 20192 min read
Schooled
Sometimes the most “productive” thing to do is nothing. Productive of renewed energy, refreshed thinking, rediscovered enthusiasm.
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Eve Bernfeld
May 15, 20192 min read
Still, Not Stiff
I’m a big fan of movement. But sometimes this moving-to-try-not-to-be-stiff is counter-productive.
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Eve Bernfeld
May 6, 20193 min read
Weekend Warrior
“I’m so mad at my body!” my student reported to me on Monday morning. I imagine many of us have felt this way.
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Eve Bernfeld
Apr 23, 20194 min read
Ready List
What a revelation to be in the city and to See it, Breathe, and not make myself small. To be present in a way I never was in my 20s.
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Eve Bernfeld
Mar 20, 20193 min read
Life-Changing
We all wish for change to be a relatively fast, easy and painless process, but real change is slower and slipperier.
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Eve Bernfeld
Sep 26, 20183 min read
C for Effort/Conservation of Energy
Isn’t it funny, I thought to myself, that I react to fatigue by doing things that make life harder for myself?
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