Hey Marvelous is Marvelous! Celebrating our new course/ membership site!
About a year ago I went down a rabbit hole researching platforms that could be the next iteration of Movement and Creativity Library + be a home for our self-paced online Feldenkrais courses…. I found something marvelous!
A message of thanks for Feldenkrais Illustrated
The past decade of my life has been quite tough, due to chronic illness and all it entails. I had been trying Feldenkrais for a while but I was running into blockades: the way other people practice; things that did not feel right to me. I was feeling overwhelmed and stuck and lost. There are lights in the tunnel, and one of them is your book, Feldenkrais Illustrated…
Interview with Jeremy Krauss About JKA Solvents and Glue
The Origins of JKA Solvents and Glue with Jeremy Krauss / Emotional and Physical Stability/ Stability and Strength / The Relationship between JKA Solvents & Glue + Feldenkrais' Alexander Yanai / Difference Between JKA Solvents and Glue and The Feldenkrais Method
Biological Optimism: Beyond Perceived Limitations
I will do a lesson because I know that in that lesson I'm going to be up against the impossible (what is perceived to me as impossible) and that I will have this felt sense of what it is to be able to move beyond.
On Reversibility - the ability to stop, start, or change direction at any moment
Reversibility is the embodied manifestation of spontaneity, the opposite of compulsion. Reversibility is a state of being, a quality of relationship to self and environment, not merely a quality of movement. It is an expression of freedom and choice, presence and poise.
Feldenkrais in NY Times (again!)
“In a time when it seems we have little control, having agency over our bodies — and our internal world — is a kind of power. By engaging in a somatic experience, you come to realize that these practices are not just about creating flexible bodies, but flexible minds.” --Gia Kourlas
Imaginary Meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais
An imaginary meeting between Dr Martin Luther King and Dr Moshe Feldenkrais, to celebrate Dr Martin Luther King Day, imbued with all the possibilities that the Feldenkrais Method has to offer people today.
“Out beyond all ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” -Rumi
We know, through the teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais, that difference is what makes us human. We already live in a world where this is true, so now the challenge is to really live as if this is true, to move beyond our personal limitations which were inflicted on us in a range of ways to make us conform to parental and societal expectations. These limitations enable us to form the habit of discounting our own sensations and our vowed and unavowed dreams.
when we no longer know what to do
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” -Wendell Berry
Movements of the Jaw and Tongue to Reduce Anxiety
This lesson is done lying on your back on a mat, rug or blanket, but can also be done seated in a chair if being on your back is not comfortable.
