Janelle Keane Campoverde: "I see grace-in-action everyday, through the miracle of learning. I feel more grace in myself as I age—in my movement, my ability to navigate my emotional life and how I relate to others. This becomes especially clear in the moments that are anything but graceful!"

Carrie Lafferty: "I know the capacity for fear lives in me and in all of us. I know that love is the interconnected energetic glee that binds all. I know that deep awareness and skillful embodied observational practices are the means to make the transmutation from fear to love."

Sheri Cohen: "An interesting thing happens when we rest our attention in a non-judgmental way, without expectation or ambition, on our neutral sensations. Our bodily experience becomes dimensional, unfixed, and responsive to our inquiry. Calm, spaciousness, and eventually pleasure creep in."

Carrie Lafferty: "I intend and dream of a world where all of us are distracted none of the time. Where humanity is truly present, awake, alert and aware. Where action is deliberate, embodied and arising from love instead of fear."

"[Feldenkrais] requires concentration and listening to the body in a different way than I have worked before. I appreciated the quiet, intuitive approach to listening to my body. It’s a healthy one to take on."

Janelle Keane Campoverde writes, "Recently, as I was driving on Highway 99, on my way to teach class, a speeding car heading from the other direction bolted over the divider and was directly in front of me. My son was in the backseat, deep in his book. In a moment, I thought, 'This will be a bad accident, but I'll do my best.'" 

Becci Parsons writes, "We tend to think of insomnia as the constellation of symptoms that we experience just before sleep or during the night when we awaken with our mind racing and the bed sheets twisted. The process of insomnia actually begins much earlier in the day for most of us."

"The magic of the Feldenkrais Method is that it isn’t magic at all," Janelle Keane Campoverde writes.