This blog posts on Mondays. Second Mondays of the month I devote to my writing workshop students and anyone else interested in creative writing. Welcome!
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We writers don’t just live in our heads, of course: we all have bodies. If we are uncomfortable physically in any way it is not impossible to write, but it doesn’t help! Count me a big fan of Annie Thoe’s YouTube channel “Sensing Vitalty,” which is chock full of her free, easy to follow, and highly effective Feldenkrais exercises. A recent one she offers is this simple exercise to relieve shoulder and neck pain––which we all get from sitting scrunched in front of a computer screen, no?
Like all Feldenkrais exercises I find this one a little strange, even counterintuitive, but nonetheless wonderfully effective. This one takes about 12 minutes and you can do it while sitting in your writing chair.
A Slam-dunk (if Counterintuitive) Strategy to
Simultaneously Accelerate, Limber Up,
and Steady the Writing Process
The StandStand: One Highly Recommended Way
to Keep on Writing While Standing
Waaaay Out to the Big Bend of Far West Texas,
and a Note on El Paso’s Elroy Bode
Find out more about C.M. Mayo’s books, shorter works, podcasts, and more at www.cmmayo.com.
