Transform habitual physical and emotional postures to help you heal from illness and injury, improve range of motion, and reduce pain.

Receive three subtle, yet powerful Feldenkrais sequences to reduce tension in your body and improve your balance and vision (literally and figuratively!)

The way you move your body... is also the way you move through your entire life...

Your physical patterns and postures not only signal imbalances to your MindBody, they also affect your self-image and worldview. For example, tense or slumped shoulders may reflect, and then reinforce, feelings of unworthiness or fear...

This impacts your physical health too — constricting the breath, affecting the function of the heart, and more...

Where you hold tension in your body communicates volumes — signaling the influence of stress, injury, and illness in your MindBody and illuminating specific emotional pain patterns.

It’s NOT your muscles or joints that are causing your pain or discomfort — it’s the mixed messages your brain is giving and receiving as it tries to navigate old wounds, new fears, and constant chemical reactions.

What if, by simply changing the way you move your body, you could free yourself from chronic pain, self-sabotaging habits, unhealthy emotional patterns, and more?

In an exciting online event, Certified Feldenkrais Method Teacher and celebrated body language expert Lavinia Plonka will introduce you to the Feldenkrais Method...

The revolutionary practices Lavinia teaches harness the power of safe, subtle, sophisticated movements to teach you how to reorganize the way you move your body — resulting in improved range of motion, reduced pain, and a fuller life.

As you’ll discover, your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and movements are closely interrelated — and influence each other in powerful ways.

Lavinia will guide you to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency — not through muscular effort, but through increased conscious awareness of how movement actually works.

You’ll open up to the link between your inner and outer worlds... and how your physical movements mirror your feelings about your sense of self-worth and your place in the world.

Begin a New Conversation With Your Brain & Nervous System

Stories continue to emerge about patients who, for example, have undergone surgeries and assumed they were perfectly healthy afterward. Yet they were (unknowingly) carrying the trauma of the actual surgery within their nervous systems, causing unexplained physical and emotional symptoms.

Although they had been under anesthesia during the surgery, their systems remembered the trauma...

When they realized they were holding onto the fear or pain stemming from the trauma of the surgery and worked through it using the Feldenkrais Method, they were able to release that trauma — and the pain they had been carrying disappeared.

We’ve come into a whole new understanding of the brain and nervous system — and it begins with the way you carry yourself. Your posture and habitual tensions are the result of your brain constantly telling your body a particular story...

Through awareness of the habitual postures and holding patterns in your body, and the performance of subtle movements through the Feldenkrais Method, you can transform YOUR story, coming into heightened self-awareness, an expansion of your repertoire of movement, and improved functioning.

When your whole body cooperates in movement, and when maximum efficiency is achieved with minimum effort, you’ll unleash your powers of creativity, intuition, healthy sexuality, and more...

Welcome to the relationship you’ve been waiting for — your relationship with yourself.

Learn With a Celebrated Body Language Expert

Lavinia Plonka has helped people improve their movement, behavior, relationships, and careers for over 35 years. Her unique expertise connects the dots between posture/movement, emotions, and the mind. Lavinia’s training and professional career have included theater, dance, yoga, and the martial arts.

Her popular workshops explore the intersection between movement, emotions, and the mind. She’s currently the director of Asheville Movement Center, offering a complete movement curriculum that includes workshops and private lessons.

During this free mini-workshop, you’ll be among the first to hear details about how you can continue your work with Lavinia in her new live video training.

What People Are Saying About Lavinia Plonka...

“I feel more graceful, flexible, responsive, and creative in my movement.”

Lately I’ve been appreciating the body awareness I’ve found in Feldenkrais. I feel more graceful, flexible, responsive, and creative in my movement. A few weeks ago on a VERY windy day I was just outside the grocery story when a gust blew a heavy portable sign right at me. I curved my body in a big arch and the sign zinged by, narrowly missing me. One observer said “Wow, that was martial arts!” I said “THAT was Feldenkrais!” Thanks Lavinia, my Feldenkrais guide!
— Yvette Odell, Musician

About Lavinia Plonka

Lavinia Plonka is a body language expert who has helped people improve their movement, behavior, relationships, and careers for over 35 years. Her unique expertise connects the dots between posture/movement, emotions, and the mind.

Lavinia’s training and professional career have included theater, dance, yoga, and the martial arts. She has taught the Feldenkrais Method for over 25 years and is also an Assistant Trainer. Lavinia is a level CL4 teacher of the Alba Method and an Emotional Body Instructor. She was an artist in residence for the Guggenheim Museum, and a movement consultant for theater and television companies around the world, from the Irish National Folk Theater to Nickelodeon.

From Esalen to the Council on Aging, from Beijing to Mexico, Lavinia’s popular workshops explore the intersection between movement, emotions, and the mind. She is currently the director of Asheville Movement Center in Asheville, North Carolina. Lavinia’s writing includes several books and audio programs.