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Eve Bernfeld
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Humility (Conservation of Energy, Part 3)
I learned the climbers rest step early in my life, growing up at high altitude, the child of mountaineers. Step, breathe, step, breathe,...
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Eve Bernfeld
Oct 25, 20222 min read
Nothing Leads to Everything
In our ongoing exploration of Alexander Technique and non-doing, last week I had my college students read and discuss Ross Gay’s essay...
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Eve Bernfeld
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Red Light
I hit every red light on the way to work the other day. And I wasn’t exactly running early. But eventually, after about the fourth red...
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Eve Bernfeld
Mar 16, 20222 min read
I'd Rather Be Here Now
The other day I was walking at Smith and Bybee Lakes next to my son. It was a gorgeous day—warm enough for a thick hoodie and scarf,...
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Eve Bernfeld
Oct 19, 20212 min read
Portrait of a Mother in Repose
Saturday is the one day I dispense with my morning routine. No scraping myself out of bed before my family to sweep, write and walk...
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Eve Bernfeld
Sep 14, 20212 min read
Hit the Deck
I guess people perceive me as the Posture Police, because they are often saying things to me like: “At the end of the day/at the end of a...
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Eve Bernfeld
Jul 20, 20213 min read
What If Judgment...*
1. What if judging myself (and the ensuing shame spiral) is just another habit that is not currently serving me? Could I approach my...
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Eve Bernfeld
Jul 8, 20213 min read
While I Eat
It is entirely possible (if inadvisable) for me to eat a meal while careening down the freeway at 65 miles per hour and simultaneously...
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Eve Bernfeld
Mar 3, 20212 min read
The Middle of the Story
I’m in the middle of creating my MFA thesis right now. I say “creating” instead of “writing” because I haven’t gotten to the words to...
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Eve Bernfeld
Feb 2, 20212 min read
Things I Don't Regret
Sometimes on rainy, interminable, nearly-a-year-into-a-pandemic days I look around in a fog: What the heck should I be doing right now?...
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Eve Bernfeld
Oct 21, 20203 min read
We Teach What We Need to Learn
Last week I made myself sick. Well, me and some streptococcus bacteria. First I feared COVID. Egads. But one swab up my nose and one down...
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Eve Bernfeld
Sep 2, 20203 min read
Is NO a Four-Letter Word?
Part 3: “Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.” I spent the better part of a recent Friday trying to get ahold of Oregon...
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Eve Bernfeld
Jul 21, 20203 min read
Is NO a Four-Letter Word?
Part 2: Without No, there can be no Yes.
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Eve Bernfeld
Jun 10, 20202 min read
Creating a Daily Alexander Technique Practice
As we strive to change the world, is it selfish to work on ourselves? Or is it the only way?
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Eve Bernfeld
Mar 24, 20202 min read
Tangled
I propose we spend a few minutes every day taking some time to PAUSE. Taking some time to reorganize ourselves.
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Eve Bernfeld
Jan 8, 20202 min read
It's the HOW
My ability to manage the HOW I do things is the difference between feeling steamrolled by my life and feeling like I can (just) manage it.
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Eve Bernfeld
Dec 2, 20192 min read
Stormy Weather
Changing my position, giving myself, quite literally, a different perspective, tends to rattle something free in my brain.
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Eve Bernfeld
Nov 12, 20192 min read
Self-Portrait
What if we were to expand our idea of ourselves to include the WHOLE THING?
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Eve Bernfeld
Oct 31, 20192 min read
My Self-Care Today
To do one thing at a time is so unusual in our culture that we may feel sheepish doing it. It’s downright counter-cultural. It’s radical.
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Eve Bernfeld
Sep 11, 20192 min read
Pause Now, Thank Me Later
I kept catching myself lifting my shoulders, hunching toward my paper and holding my breath. Old habits die hard.
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