Movement & Creativity Podcast Episodes #4-6.

Create new metaphors to counter the "war on pain"→ movement towards curiosity as an approach, rather than self-violence. Deborah Bowes shares her thinking behind her self-paced Feldenkrais Series: Curiosity, Self Image and Pain

Feldenkrais Podcast #4 with Deborah Bowes

We talk about:
• How Feldenkrais reassures the limbic system
• The relationship between pain and self image
• The phenomena of pain
• Feldenkrais is a bio-psycho-social model and pain is a bio-psycho-social experience
• The importance of empathy and compassion in changing neural pathways

Feldenkrais Podcast #3 with Aliza Stewart

We talk about:

• How the movement of self is similar to the movement of sound

• How the nervous system makes order out of chaos

• How the Feldenkrais Method® influences the experience of anxiety

• What it means to have a good life

• Orientation, creativity, improvement, independence

• There is always a choice

Feldenkrais Podcast #2 with Madelyn Kent

We talk about talked about:
quieting noise/ anxiety
moving through creative blocks
complex awareness
neuroplastic healing
constraints
flow

This context begins to bring us to appreciate the brilliance of Moshe’s work. When one’s attentional pathway is continually being fostered through the limbic system—in the continual maintenance of the sense of safety and the sense of self, one is not going to give up behaviors unless there’s something better in place.

This first episode of Feldenkrais Podcast is a talk with Jeff Haller on Moshe Feldenkrais teaching in Amherst, MA 1980-81 and Jeff's perspective on the Feldenkrais Method's potential to contribute to emotional well being.