Feldenkrais with Taro Iwamoto

06/06/2026

A few people asked if my book "Your Body Is Not Broken" would be available as a paperback, especially for those who prefer a physical book or don’t use Kindle.

I’m happy to share that the paperback version is now available on Amazon!

Kindle + paperback:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX363HMX

Thank you to everyone who has read it or reached out about it. I really appreciate your support.

Your Body Is Not Broken: A Gentle Somatic Path to Moving with More Ease, Trust, and Freedom

06/04/2026

Thank you so much.

I’m grateful to share that my new Kindle book, Your Body Is Not Broken, reached #1 New Release in Alternative Holistic Medicine and #1 in 90-Minute Health, Fitness & Dieting Short Reads on Amazon Kindle.

I wrote this short book for anyone who feels tired of trying to fix their body and wants a gentler way to begin again — through awareness, curiosity, somatic movement, and rebuilding trust from the inside.

Thank you to everyone who has read, downloaded, reviewed, or supported the book. I’m grateful this message is reaching people who may need it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX363HMX

06/01/2026

Just a gentle reminder: my ebook Your Body Is Not Broken is available free/discounted on Kindle through tomorrow.

I wrote this for anyone who feels stuck in pain, tension, fear of movement, or the belief that their body needs to be fixed.

My hope is that it gives you a softer, more hopeful way to begin relating to your body again.

You can read it free on Kindle during the promotion period here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX363HMX

If you’re outside the U.S., you may need to search the title Your Body Is Not Broken by Taro Iwamoto in your local Amazon store.

05/29/2026

My new Kindle book is free for the next few days!

It’s called Your Body Is Not Broken: A Gentle Somatic Path to Moving with More Ease, Trust, and Freedom.

I wrote it for anyone who feels tired of trying to fix their body and wants a gentler way to begin again — through awareness, curiosity, somatic movement, and rebuilding trust from the inside.

It’s not a technical manual or another correction system. It’s a short, gentle companion for your somatic movement journey.

You can read it free on Kindle during the promotion period here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX363HMX

I hope it supports you. Enjoy!

Your Body Is Not Broken: A Gentle Somatic Path to Moving with More Ease, Trust, and Freedom

05/28/2026

“How, not just what”

Dawn, one of my students in Moving Freely in Your Body, recently shared something that really touched me. You can perhaps relate to her.

She said that for years, even in yoga, she had learned the “what” of movement — the posture, the shape, the performance.

But she still found herself moving back into old patterns and pain.

Then she wrote:

“Taro, you are the first teacher who has been able to open up the ‘how’ rather than just the ‘what’ movements to create change.”

That distinction matters.

Your body often does not need another movement, exercise, or technique to perform.

It needs a different way of learning.

Not forcing.
Not correcting.
Not trying to get it right.

But noticing how you move, how you guard, how you relate to yourself, and how new options slowly emerge. Deep kinesthetic listening is a skill that requires guidance and practice. With this skill, you can begin to peel off layers of your habitual patterns one layer by one layer. This process is what it takes to get to the root of your difficulties (far beyond your physical symptoms) that is making your life smaller and smaller over the years.

That is what somatic movement and nervous system learning are really about.

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05/26/2026

I often talk about human potential.

But I don’t mean magic, false hope, or “just believe in yourself.”

I mean something much more practical.

I’ve seen people discover movement possibilities that seemed unavailable when the right conditions were created.

Recently, we had a dear 97-year-old friend visit our new home here in Michigan. He had not really walked for almost a year and mostly used a wheelchair inside his home.

After lunch, he asked about our basement studio.

The only way down was 14 stairs.

Honestly, we thought it was impossible.

But he really wanted to see it.

We did not push him.
We did not motivate him.
We did not tell him exactly what to do.

We simply made the situation as safe as possible and stayed with him.

He decided to sit on the stairs and scoot himself down.

He made it all the way to the basement.

Then he walked back up all 14 stairs by himself.

Not because he had been practicing stairs.

Not because someone corrected his posture.

Something became possible because the conditions were different.

There was curiosity, meaning, safety, relationship, and no pressure.

That is what I mean by potential.

Not magic.

A real, human, nervous system potential.

Your body may have more possibilities than you realize.

Those possibilities often do not appear through force, correction, or constantly monitoring yourself.

They begin to appear when your nervous system feels safe enough to learn again.

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04/28/2026

“I cannot fix the mind anymore than I can fix the body.”

Someone who has been following my work wrote this to me recently, and I thought it was such a beautiful realization.

Because many people approach the body and mind the same way.

They try to fix the body.
Then they try to fix the mind.
Then they try to fix their posture.
Then they try to fix their emotions.
Then they try to fix their nervous system.

And before long, their whole life becomes a project of self-correction.

But what if the deeper shift does not begin with fixing?

What if it begins with noticing?

Noticing the tension you did not realize you were holding.
Noticing how your breath changes when you feel uncertain.
Noticing how your body prepares for pain before pain even arrives.
Noticing the stories the mind repeats.
Noticing how much effort you use to hold yourself together.

This kind of awareness is not about analyzing yourself.

It is not about becoming hypervigilant.

It is a softer kind of attention coming from genuine curiosity.

The kind that says:

“Oh, this is what I am doing.”
“This is how I am protecting myself.”
“This is how my body learned to organize around fear, tension, or discomfort.”

And sometimes, when the body is met that way, it no longer has to keep holding so tightly.

This is why somatic work is not just movement.

It is a different relationship with yourself.

Less fixing.
More listening.
Less correction.
More awareness.
Less forcing change.
More creating the conditions where change can happen.

Noticing is a powerful act.

04/21/2026

A lot of people are not only tired because of symptoms.They’re tired because they’ve been carrying themselves like a project for so long.

Always trying to figure it out. Always monitoring. Always adjusting. Always trying to stay ahead of what might flare up, go wrong, feel off, or get worse.That is exhausting.And I understand why people do it. You can probably relate to that too.

When you’ve been struggling for a long time, of course you want relief.Of course you want to understand. Of course you want to help yourself.But at some point, many people are not only living with discomfort. They are living in a constant relationship of managing themselves.

And that does something. It can make it hard to rest. Hard to trust. Hard to just be in your life without feeling like you need to keep working on yourself all the time.

Sometimes I think healing is not only about feeling better. Sometimes it is also about no longer carrying yourself like a problem that always needs attention.

Not becoming careless. Not ignoring yourself. Not giving up. Just no longer holding yourself so tightly.

That shift can be bigger than it first appears. And, I believe somatic movement work can help create that shift that will open the door to new possibilities.

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04/13/2026

Something I’ve been noticing again and again:

For many people, ease does not feel familiar at first.

When the body has spent a long time bracing, protecting, or trying hard, support can feel surprisingly unfamiliar.

But little by little, with the right kind of attention, the body can begin to trust that it does not have to hold everything alone.

02/23/2026

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi

Most of us approach chronic pain like a "clever" person. We look outside for the perfect modality, the newest technique, or the right practitioner to "fix" us. We treat our bodies like a problem to be solved rather than a landscape to be inhabited.

But as Rumi reminds us, wisdom starts when we turn that focus inward.

In our Somatic Movement practice, we stop fighting against the external conditions and start listening to the internal ones. When we say "the cure for pain is in the pain," we mean in somatic movement practice instead of seeking external modalities to "take the pain away," students learn to inhabit the painful area with gentle, somatic movement to find the "cure"—the release and reorganization that happens from within.

The Clever Mind wants to push it away.

The Wise Body knows that pain is a messenger. When we slow down and move with awareness, we allow the nervous system to finally "hear" the message and complete its stress response cycle.

Healing isn't about changing or controlling the world around you so you can finally feel safe; it’s about finding the safety within your own skin, exactly as it is right now.

Let's stop performing and start listening!

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