Feldenkrais Jacksonville Oregon

11/06/2025

Most people don't know how to free themselves from chronic tension, which is not only the result, but also the cause of later injury to body, mind & spirit. Intro to Stress Less this Saturday! https://link.msgsndr.com/sp/409e8633d7b

1. want to understand what doctors don't know about how pain works 2. want to alleviate muscle tension that causes pain 3. want to discover how to unwind without drugs or medication

08/23/2025

Thank you ALL! for the Birthday Wishes! The VERY best Gift you could give me is to help people know I exist! I have focused on helping people over 25+ to alleviate pain: physical & emotional, as well as the deep personal wounding of intimate trauma, loss & PTSD - I do not advertise. In 2025, the best ad is your trust & your recommendation! Please, if I have helped you in any way, over the years, please click thru to leave a google review about what it has meant to you in your life to have access to my hands, my teaching, my recordings or my coaching! Much Love! Gabrielle Link: https://g.page/r/CRZe3dLZ4YcnEAE/review or QR Code!

07/29/2025

Ignored Feedback: Why Modern Society Suppresses Pain

📍 📍 We've been taught to ignore the most Important Information: the feedback we get from our own Nervous System. We've been taught to deny it. We've been taught to give it drugs. We've been taught to suppress it. This is the thing: most people haven't been independent enough in their thinking to realize this is a problem! If you want to stress less, and have less chronic pain, you have to tune IN, not tune OUT.

Pain is a feedback loop that the system doesn't want you to pay attention to. They want you to cover it up using some kind of a product, medication or surgery. It's all about the bottom line. So how could you learn to respond? It requires neurological reeducation: refining skills you have innately. To create space for feeling better, you have to relinquish the conditioning: https://creatingspace.mn.co/

07/08/2025

Let's bust the Myth that Strength Training is the only thing that matters. It turns out pain & trauma are two sides of the same coin. And if you think it's not traumatic for an athlete to be unable to do a sport they have spent a lifetime training for, think again. It can be a complete identity crisis, one that requires neurological reeducation, even more than strength training. Discover how to prevent overuse injuries for optimal athletic performance. To avoid training so hard that you injure yourself, discover how mental imagery, as researched over decades, helps rewire your brain for better spatial awareness, timing and coordination. The Feldenkrais® process of Awareness Through Movement® gives you the tools to alleviate pain with a somatic practice that you can easily learn and that will help almost immediately. It's a process of becoming aware of the intelligence of your own body and how to use it.

This only works if you DO it in space and time, since the body is subject to the space time continuum. This is the first part of the lesson. You can find the full lesson at http://creatingspace.mn.co which is my member community for those really wanting to make a massive transformation in how they feel by immersing themselves in the process. It has a free trial period for your learning pleasure. I will also offer this series as a stand alone mini-course that you can purchase. Check in at http://theresiliencezone.com for details.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xBMa3AKrkSROEoxT1BWTj?si=63-FpIzHTZKvNkVt5_k29A

08/25/2024

Happy Sunday! I just thought I'd pop in and provide the quote of the day. Something to think about!

05/26/2024

Good morning, beautiful souls!🥰 in spite of the catastrophic collision of reality w. be******ty, make your heart light today come with may!💔❤️😂😊 The line between tears of sorrow & joy is very fine!🎬 You’re the star 💫of your life! Choose. Deliberately. it’s your super power!

04/14/2023

Expediting recovery from

Things have taken a dramatic turn for the worse: originally diagnosed as a line fracture, this has now been diagnosed as a comminuted fracture of the lateral tibial plateau.

Here’s how to read an x-ray at least in general terms. The L designate that it’s the left leg. this is an interior view, meaning it’s shot from the front. The femur is the top bone, the long bone of the thigh. The tibia is the bone below it, the shin bone. The small bone to the right is the fibula. These are the three bones which articulate the new along with the patella, or the kneecap, which you can’t see.

The trick with x-rays is to realize that you have to flip the image in your mind. Just as when you’re looking at a person from the front: their right is your left and their left is your right.

In the same way, the right side of the leg which is towards the midline of the body is on the left and the left side of the leg which is on the outside is to the right. The correct terminology for this would be medial for the midline and lateral for the outside line.

You can see where the tibia bone is very light and there’s a lot of joint space on the medial side just above the fibula.

They say they are going to reconstitute the missing bone. You can only see that there’s a huge gap from a CT scan but I don’t have a copy of that at the moment. They want to do surgery immediately.

So I’m going in on Friday, tomorrow, April 14. Wish me luck!

Why this happened is a longer conversation.

Suffice it to say that after a good three or four years of serious grief, I suffered from premature aging, and diminished blood flow to the lower extremities. I believe that’s why the upper bone was strong and hard enough to cause damage to the lower bone. There was a difference in bone density due to the lack of good circulation to the shin. And so the impact of the fall drove The femur straight down into the tibia with such force that it crushed crushed the bone and must be surgically reconstituted.

One moral of the story is: never let yourself mourn for so long that your health declines. But that is easier said than done with certain losses. Without feldenkrais I could not have come back to be stronger than I was before. But it does not make a person regain bone density. I didn’t realize it was an issue, or I would’ve addressed it. Only in retrospect is it somewhat obvious. This is why I am so passionate about helping people come out of the Dark Night of the Soul caused by years of grief and why I think that feldenkrais is immensely helpful for this. But that too is a longer conversation! I must rest now.

09/29/2022

"Craft a more positive outlook in troubled times: Gain Your Own Insights from the Cutting Edge of Awareness. Where to Begin? Awareness Comes First, Then What? Discover How to Use Your Journal to Move into a New Perspective - Even if you've been stuck in a downward spiral of complicated grief for years...Insight Journaling Guide."

Here's a backup copy. If you didn't get this download before, get it now!
go to https://creatingspace.mn.co/posts/27466518

Speaking of Writing...Did everyone get the free booklet I put on offer as a gift for participating in the Move Better, Feel Better Summit? "Craft a more positive outlook in troubled times: Gain You...

07/22/2022

SPINE HEALTH TIP - Did You Know? Don't Lock Your Knees, It's a Habit That Forces Your Low Back Into Constant Contraction. The unnecessary work causes low back pain.

Call 541 777-0124 or Book Your Session Now: www.yourlifematters.solutions
Gabrielle Pullen, LMT, GCFP license #25754

07/22/2022

Happy Fourth of July discount. Mention this ad and get $15 off for a month of classes. July Marks the last month of lessons (until October) in this amazing method that can change your life. Stiff neck? Can’t turn easily when parking your car? Cervical discomfort? Whiplash? Learn how to lose it. Some things are better when they’re gone! Every Saturday 10 AM to 11 at the Gogi building in Jacksonville, OR. 🐬 Your Life Matters. Pain may be a part of life but suffering is optional. To Redeem Text Fourth of July to 541 777-0124

02/15/2022

Courage means being able to say,
"I have fallen, but I will get up!" ~Maya Angelou
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. How do you want it to go?
This is the newest recording I have to offer you: A beautiful, restorative meditation in preparation for the full moon in Leo coming up on the 15th - or the 16th - depending where on the planet you find yourself. But the energies of this full moon before and after affect us for at least five days in either direction.
In preparation for the new energy coming in, which is about to pick up its pace, it's time to relax and absorb the surges of photonic light bombarding the planet. Full moons are always full of the feelings that tend to come to a head but this is a time when we need the great compassion of the heart to prevail. LEO is about having heart. Courage. We are shifting from the age of the mind to the age of the heart, so this Leo Full Moon is really emphasizing that. Let us prepare ourselves to go with the flow of this unprecedented moment in the history of our planet and its peoples...
Transmute charged emotions, so that they no longer block you. Clear them with a simple process of guided meditation that expands awareness. Creates a direct connection to your personal spiritual and creative resources. In the past, it took forever because you did not know what you know now. You didn't have the tools. Harness the power of emotion to create an expressway through the minefield of the past. The cultural programming to dismiss emotion is denies the negative effect these vibrations have on your life. Shift happens faster with this ancient form of yoga nidra meditation that has been upgraded to include modern science. Enjoy!
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