Vivian Best, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner

07/29/2024

Newest review of my Awareness Through Movement class from a ClassPass participant!

Classes are a great way to learn to be ok with “boredom” so that we can support comfortable movement and make improvements!

07/12/2024

So often in Awareness Through Movement classes we talk about constraints and play with what becomes possible when we work with those constraints.

This is a lovely talk about the relationship between constraints and creativity!

Hope you enjoy it too!

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06/19/2024

Come join me for an Awareness Through Movement class on Solstice over Zoom!

See you tomorrow June 20 at 4:30pm ET/ 3:30PM CT! Register at the link below! :)

Celebrate the summer solstice through gentle Feldenkrais movement and guided reflection on the light we carry within with Vivian Best. This nourishing event will use mindful movements to awaken graceful presence as we connect with our inner sources of warmth and resilience. Bask in the radiant solst...

03/11/2024

I’ve been delighting in giving sessions at Studio 103 in Far West!

I’ve set my table up in a different space every time!

Let me know if you’d like to schedule a Functional Integration session!

02/27/2024

Excited to be teaching on Wednesday mornings at 10am at Myo for the next few months! Come join me for Awareness Through Movement!

12/20/2023

I feel blessed to work with clients in such a beautiful restorative space! 🙂

Today I worked with a young woman diagnosed with fibromyalgia and POTS. What a joy to offer her tools for rest and comfort! What a delight to help support someone feel a sense of wonder in their body! 🙂

Love teaching at Myo and hope you’ll join me for a class or private session in the new year!

10/15/2023

Come join me for my next class on Saturday, October 28 from 5-6pm!

If you've never been to Myo, come be my guest! I can leave a pass for you at the front desk!

10/14/2023

Come join me for class tonight at Myo!

If you’ve never been to a class at Myo before, I can offer you a free class pass!

Just let me know that you’re coming so that I can leave one for you!

10/01/2023

What I find myself telling people who have never taken an Awareness Through Movement class before, is that we all feel so much more in our bodies than we ever give words to.

There are all the subtle sensations that we tune out, from the sensations of breathing and the pulsing of blood, to the feelings of care and inspiration to the subtle cues of relaxation and peacefulness in our bodies.

Very rarely are we invited to enjoy and listen for impulses, for curiosities, for the differences that may just make the difference in how we live and feel about our lives.

I delight in teaching these weekly classes at Myo on Saturday nights. I hope you'll join me sometime!

Photo is of a grasshopper who showed up on my okra plant this week!

09/29/2023

Come join me for class tomorrow at Myo!

If you’ve never been to a class at Myo before, I can offer you a free class pass!

Just let me know that you’re coming so that I can leave one for you!

05/12/2023

Come join me for Awareness Through Movement this Saturday!

Categories How to slow down properly 1. Make time in your day for idleness (especially when there’s a lot to do).  2. Limit your exposure to seriousness. Try laughing. If that’s too difficult, start with giggling. 3. Never waste an opportunity to get comfortable.  4. Have a cup of tea. Put you...

04/17/2023

I'm excited to announce that I'll be offering in-person classes again starting 4/22 at Myo Austin! (https://myoaustin.com).

Please check the schedule and sign-up through their mindbody site! I'll be teaching 4/22, 5/13, 20, 27, 6/10, 17, and 7/1!

08/26/2022

Awareness Through Movement classes are great opportunities to let your mind and your body catch up to each other!

Join us on Fridays at 4pm CT over zoom!

maybe we’re not lost. maybe we’re just moving too fast.
(page 135 from ‘home body’)

08/09/2022

https://www.castlehillfitness.com/workshops/1490/free-feldenkrais-weekend-workshop-larry-goldfarb

A WEEKEND OF FELDENKRAIS® WITH LARRY GOLDFARB Castle Hill Fitness is honored to present a weekend of free workshops with one of the preeminent international presenters and trainers in the Feldenkrais® Method, Larry Goldfarb. Feldenkrais® uses gentle movement sequences to engage the brain...

07/09/2022

The blank canvas of my morning!

Feeling deeply grateful for opportunities to touch others to enhance their lives. 🙂

I’m offering in-person Feldenkrais sessions again in South Austin! Let me know if you’d like to schedule a Functional Integration session!

07/08/2022

In celebration of Peter Brooks' life, I'm teaching some of the lessons that he requested be taught to the actors of the Bouffes du Nord theater in 1973 by Moshe Feldenkrais over the next month.

I love that Brooks encouraged actors to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in themselves.

Feldenkrais Method has always provided me with a place where I can feel into my own experience more deeply. I have always found Awareness Through Movement lessons such powerful ways to tap into my own intuition and hope you'll join me on Fridays! (11am HST / 2pm PT / 4pm CT / 5pm ET)

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMof-GurjMsGdLWd5d1cJeDm5aHnq7ywTjO

The director’s landmark achievements include a nine-hour Mahabharata, putting Shakespeare on trapezes and directing Olivier, Gielgud and Scofield at the RSC

03/11/2022

By special request, I'm teaching a lesson today about feet.

If you've been wanting to give your feet some appreciation, come join us today! 2pm PST/4pm CST/5pm EST

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMof-GurjMsGdLWd5d1cJeDm5aHnq7ywTjO