Eve Bernfeld
Sick Kid
It was weird how easily I was able to shift gears this morning from ready to teach to home with a sick kid. Am I finally becoming...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 25, 2022
- 2 min
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
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
Joyful Roundup
We’re deep into the season when we are supposed to be joyful. Whether we like it or not. And coming to the end of yet another year of...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
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 14, 2021
- 2 min
Hit the Deck
I guess people perceive me as the Posture Police, because they are often saying things to me like: “At the end of the day/at the end of a...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
Things I Don't Regret
Sometimes on rainy, interminable, nearly-a-year-into-a-pandemic days I look around in a fog: What the heck should I be doing right now?...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
We Teach What We Need to Learn
Last week I made myself sick. Well, me and some streptococcus bacteria. First I feared COVID. Egads. But one swab up my nose and one down...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
Is NO a Four-Letter Word?
Part 2: Without No, there can be no Yes.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jun 10, 2020
- 2 min
Creating a Daily Alexander Technique Practice
As we strive to change the world, is it selfish to work on ourselves? Or is it the only way?
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Eve Bernfeld
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
Tangled
I propose we spend a few minutes every day taking some time to PAUSE. Taking some time to reorganize ourselves.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Mar 8, 2020
- 3 min
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
- Dec 2, 2019
- 2 min
Stormy Weather
Changing my position, giving myself, quite literally, a different perspective, tends to rattle something free in my brain.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 16, 2019
- 3 min
The Crux
Saying NO to the million tiny habits of body and mind that contribute to feeling diminished, to feeling like I can’t go on.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Aug 7, 2019
- 2 min
Schooled
Sometimes the most “productive” thing to do is nothing. Productive of renewed energy, refreshed thinking, rediscovered enthusiasm.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Apr 23, 2019
- 4 min
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
- Oct 10, 2018
- 2 min
The Good Stuff
What if the PAUSE is where the good stuff happens? The PAUSE is the place of inspiration, of creativity, of discovering the unexpected.
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