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A Free Video Event
With Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher® & Founder of Kinesa®
Lavinia Plonka
2025-05-15 5:30:00 pm
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The healing you need lies within the power of movement.

Experience how Feldenkrais Method® self-healing strategies, combined with sacred gestures, can provide pain relief and a deeper connection to Spirit.

Healing unfolds when you reconnect to Spirit through your body.

Indigenous teachings have long held that dis-ease begins in the spirit, then descends to the emotions, and can eventually manifest in the body.

Given that the turbulence of the outer world is often reflected in the turbulence of our inner world, it’s no wonder that so many of us are struggling with fatigue, tension, and chronic discomfort.

The profound union of intentional movement and sacred gestures can alleviate these modern-day maladies and reconnect you to your higher self, affirms Lavinia Plonka, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher® and founder of the Kinesa® movement process.

Lavinia teaches that mindful somatic movement enables you to access the vocabulary of the sacred that’s embodied in the vital life force that flows throughout your body.

Since the dawn of time, people have been expressing this vocabulary through sacred gestures to deepen their connection to the Divine during times of prayer.

Indeed, through simple gestures such as bringing our hands together in prayer or raising our hands to the heavens, we create energetic and neurological links that create a bridge between the physical and the spiritual, allowing us to feel seen, supported, and aligned with something greater than ourselves.

Join Lavinia for a powerful hour-long event and explore how sacred gestures such as prayers, mudras, and more can help us find our personal pathway to reducing stress, relieving emotional and physical pain, attaining spiritual clarity, and navigating the complex challenge of transcending our rational mind to deepen our connection not only with ourselves but with others as well.

For example, you’ll experience the healing power of sacred gestures in action using the power of hand movements. From Christian saints deep in prayer to the great Tai Chi masters, the power emanating from our hands can heal and transform.

Lavinia will share a guided Hand-to-Heart practice to help you cultivate a personal connection to your heart center and communicate with others more deeply all through the intelligence of your hands

If you’re a seeker who longs for a more embodied spiritual practice but aren’t sure where to find the tools you need, or you’d like to make ancient wisdom part of your journey in an accessible way, Lavinia designed this event for you.

In this hour-long free online event, you’ll discover:

  • Why understanding the connections between your posture, gestures, and emotions can enhance your emotional fluency
  • A guided Hand-to-Heart practice for cultivating a personal connection to your heart center and communicating with others through the gestures and intelligence of your hands
  • How you can choose your ideal spiritual practice when you understand how sacred movements influence the nervous system and impact you
  • How to improve your breathing habits and health when you connect your breath to your spirit
  • How tension and stress impact the flow of energy throughout your body and how you can harness its flow for pain relief and stress reduction

When you join us, you’ll be among the first to hear new details about Lavinia’s new 7-week live video course, where you’ll learn how to experience greater ease, presence, and spiritual clarity through weekly somatic explorations blending mindful movement, mudras, and global sacred gestures to release tension and reconnect with your higher self.

Spiritual blockages will fall away as you cultivate a greater sense of yourself in relation to the higher power of the Universe.

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Join this FREE video event with Lavinia Plonka and explore how to combine the Feldenkrais Method® with sacred gestures to relieve pain and forge a deeper connection to Spirit.

Free Video Event

2025-05-15 5:30:00 pm

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What People Are Saying About Lavinia Plonka...

“Lavinia’s classes always leave me feeling taller, stronger, pain-free, and awakened...”

In practicing Feldenkrais, it looks and feels like you are doing next to nothing, yet the effects are profound. Taking Lavinia’s classes always leave me feeling taller, stronger, pain-free, and awakened to the potential of a better me. The power in the art of the subtle can’t be emphasized enough, and Lavinia delivers it with fun, precision, and grace.

Merina TyKisera, LAc

Author of Acupressure with Essential Oils

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“Lavinia Plonka has an easy, understated teaching style...”

Lavinia Plonka has an easy, understated teaching style that gracefully unwinds her vast formal and intuitive knowledge of the body and its metaphors, unlocking the power of the Feldenkrais Method to free attention and create greater ease — in our bodies and in our lives. If you have an opportunity to study with her, I recommend it.

Mike Morrell

Cofounder of ReWilder and collaborating author with Richard Rohr on The Divine Dance

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“Lavinia is an engaging and expert movement teacher...”

Lavinia is an engaging and expert movement teacher who helps you know your body in easy and accessible ways that lead to transformation. I'm consistently amazed at how small movements have huge effects.

Leanne Cusumano Roque

President of Shine Like the Sun and author of Live Light: Simple Steps

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About Lavinia Plonka

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Body language expert Lavinia Plonka has helped people improve their movement, behavior, health, and careers for over 35 years. Her unique expertise connects the dots between posture, movement, emotions, and the mind. Lavinia is the founder of Kinēsa®, an educational process that integrates movement, science, and ancient wisdom traditions. 

Lavinia’s training and professional career have included theater, dance, yoga, and martial arts. A former vice president of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America, she has taught the Feldenkrais Method® for over 30 years, is a lead instructor of the Emotional Body® and an ISMETA Master Somatic Movement Educator. Her theater credits include the Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art program, international tours, commercials for Nickelodeon, and more. 

Lavinia has written several books exploring the intersection of movement, awareness, and wellbeing, including What Are You Afraid Of? which has been translated into seven languages. She is director of the Asheville Movement Center in North Carolina, where she maintains a busy private practice.

Embodying Prayer With Sacred Somatic Motion
Lavinia Plonka
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