May 1 – May 10: TAKE the opportunity to celebrate Moshe’s Birthday during international FELDENKRAIS WEEK — with worldwide participation through 2019 Feldenkrais Summit. This consists of online interviews and a daily lesson in many languages. Listen or participate in it whenever and however you want!!
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What is energy? “the movement from possibility to actuality.” Dr. Dan Siegal Potential for using Feldenkrais’ process Interview 2018 during Feldenkrais week with Dr. Dan Siegal, Interpersonal Neurobiology and Donna Ray, Feldenkrais Practitioner/Trainer about mind, consciousness, energy, awareness. Dr. Dan Siegal suggests “dropping into the subjective experience of knowing, all […]
Anat Baniel talks about Recovery from a Stroke w Jill Bolte Taylor
Podcast (an hour) Anat and Jill talk about the need for ‘listening’, waiting, rest, and acceptance in order to move forward. PODCAST: Interview with Special Guest Jill Bolte Taylor
Breathing is Life, Life is Breathing
“Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance”– Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc Feldenkrais colleague writes: Breathing is Life, Life is Breathing. Tyler James Wall describes how even though breathing is something we do everyday, HOW we breath is reflected in our everyday habits. Moshe Feldenkrais liked to disrupt habitual actions and habitual breathing patterns are […]
Feldenkrais’ Counterintuitive Movements!
One more article suggesting the Feldenkrais Method offers many opportunities to get Back in Shape!
Stress or opportunity?
The following is by a fellow Feldenkrais Practitioner who suggests we move our mind set from stress as a downer to an OPPORTUNITY! “We are designed to learn but often avoid the opportunity. If we are smart and/or lucky we will set up challenges to stress/expand our lives.” Chris Elms To read more!
Walking is more than ‘exercise’
“The brain is the only organ in the body that never stops developing and although it sounds extraordinary, an ordinary daily activity such as walking helps to keep it developing”. I have always promoted Walking as a wonderful activity for the brain. Walking, when easy, demonstrates how you can create harmony within your whole self through […]
WE learn by doing….
“Motor Learning Specialists have found that we learn by doing,” says Dowd, who began teaching at Julliard as an assistant to Ideokinesis matriarch Lulu Sweigard in the late 1960s. ‘If you learn it ( anatomy) intellectually, you forget it. You have to do it physically and then you can start to understand what you have learned.” Irene Dowd […]
TIGER WOODS IS EXCELLING WITH A FOCUS ON ‘FEEL’
The above is the title of an article in the PGA Newsletter of March 15, 2018. The author, T.J. Auclair, makes it clear that Tiger is concentrating and practicing, and that he also has years of technical learning. Still – the idea that he is now focusing on ‘sensing SUBTLE differences and playing with the […]
Marvelous Movement – Being Present
One of my Poems published in 1989