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Eve Bernfeld

May 15, 2019
2 min

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, 2019
3 min

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, 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

Mar 20, 2019
3 min

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

Mar 3, 2019
2 min

The Warm-Up (Part 2)

The hardest thing for me is the RESISTANCE. Because actually taking the simple steps that would make me feel better is still SO HARD.

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Eve Bernfeld

Feb 21, 2019
3 min

The Warm-Up (Part 1)

A warm-up is a preparation. It may, quite literally, warm one up, but it also gets one in the right frame of mind to do whatever is next.

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Eve Bernfeld

Jan 30, 2019
1 min

Foiled Again

As if I can control life, death and the unruly world itself by scheduling things right.

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Eve Bernfeld

Dec 16, 2018
2 min

Lighten UP--Holiday Edition

Imagine you are a candle. Your head floats up with ease like the flame. Your feet melt into the ground like wax.

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Eve Bernfeld

Dec 12, 2018
3 min

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Walk*

What big decision did I ever make without walking? What inspiration ever came to me indoors?

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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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Eve Bernfeld

Sep 26, 2018
3 min

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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Eve Bernfeld

Aug 27, 2018
2 min

Stay

When I stop and really STAY in this moment, I realize the effort I was making to try to be in two places at once.

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Eve Bernfeld

Aug 13, 2018
2 min

Stop the Insanity!

It's not just learning to stop tensing my shoulders. It's about eschewing a straightforward, well-defined parenting path to stumble down a

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Eve Bernfeld

Jul 8, 2018
1 min

The Essentials

I am Inhibiting the habit of uselessly stressing myself out over everything else. Because there will be a season for those things too.

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Eve Bernfeld

Feb 7, 2018
2 min

The Icky Feeling

When I take a stand, no matter how small, it feels icky, not because it’s wrong, but because it’s breaking a pattern that needs to change.

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Eve Bernfeld

Jan 3, 2018
4 min

day OFF

You know it’s a bad sign when you can’t remember how to turn off your computer. Evidence of the epic need for my newest undertaking: day OFF

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Eve Bernfeld

Jan 16, 2017
2 min

How to Walk on Ice

As someone born and raised in the mountains and an Alexander Technique teacher to boot, I'm awarding myself temporary expert status.

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Eve Bernfeld

Oct 29, 2016
2 min

What Was I Scared Of?

On constant overload, it’s easy to see danger everywhere, and to begin to live smaller and smaller and smaller lives.

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Eve Bernfeld

May 5, 2016
1 min

Saying Grace

There is no room for gratitude or change if we never stop.

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