Lavinia Plonka

Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher

Lavinia's movement experience ranges over 30 years, including mime, yoga and the martial arts. She was an artist in residence for the Guggenheim Museum and movement consultant for theater companies around the world, including the Irish National Folk Theater. She was founder and director of The Movement Center, NJ's first complete movement education facility, where classes in Feldenkrais, Yoga, Tai Chi and much more were offered as part of a complementary medicine program in The Alternative Wellness Center. Lavinia's book What Are You Afraid Of? A Body/Mind Guide to Courageous Living (Tarcher/Putnam) is available in bookstores nationwide.

"I believe that nothing less than a revolution in the way we perceive ourselves and our world is occurring right now. We are moving from a paradigm of separation between mind and body, to a universe of infinite possibilities for the entire organism," says Lavinia. "My goal in life is to facilitate the growth of everyone, including myself, through understanding more and more this mystery called the human being."

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