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"One we can learn a movement, we know it well—in every direction, in every detail We are now free to write our own handwriting.” - Moshe Feldenkrais

This is a found poem created from Moshe Feldenkrais’ teaching in his last professional training in Amherst, MA in 1980-81. The word "simple" comes up 370 times!

Learning how to solve a movement problem is a skill that we use as a learning strategy in Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement®. This skill is very useful for dealing with pain and the skill can be generalized in one’s life.

Let's begin. What has already begun? What do you want to begin? What happens in the beginning of your inhale? And the beginning of your exhale?

"Be sure your intention is clearly present in your movement. The movement organizes itself when your intention is clear." - Moshe Feldenkrais

A simple, fun 5 minute video inspired by the Jeremy Krauss Approach® to support you to experience movement in an area in your life that feels fixed, stuck or ready for next steps,…

How can I make daily practice easy for me? To engage in a more consistent way, but also in ways that may just really springboard my new year in a range of ways that gives me greater capacity for learning, for expanding myself and enjoying the year ahead.

Jeremy Krauss discusses JKA-ALM and Feldenkrais ATM / How do physical changes in JKA-ALM influence emotional well-being and creative thinking? / Experience a free 25 min JKA-ALM Intro lesson

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!

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.

Movement & Creativity Podcast #3: Tiffany Sankary interviews Stephen Nachmanovitch, author of Free Play and The Art of Is. They talk about improvising as a way of life in teaching, learning, parenting, creative process and the balance of play, chaos, receptivity, self discovery, imperfection and connection."

Your nervous system is all the way outside your body and all the way inside and you're perceiving through every medium that you're present in." -Stephen Nachmanovitch

Right now, in this crazy world we're living in I'm feeling the importance of having a flexible mind—the ability to change plans, to see bigger pictures that include paradox, complexity, confusion, questions, puzzles, patterns...

I’m diving directly into this territory in creating Feldenkrais Mixtape, my fall live and online series.

Want more creative focus?

STRUCTURE AND FREEDOM: 10 Mini Feldenkrais & Organic Intelligence audio lessons

"It is possible to sense the action before you actually do it. There is a tiny gap of time there where you can intervene and change the action. For Feldenkrais, that was called awareness. That's what happens in the tiny gap between intention and execution, or intention and action, where you can sense and do or not do, and do it differently." - Aliza Stewart

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

This short video is about the process of making one image. Collage, drawing, photo, papercut, color, stars, play---all led up to the final version. This image was commissioned by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America for the 2018 Feldenkrais Method® Conference.

Feldenkrais Podcast #2 with Madelyn Kent

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

In the Feldenkrais Method, paradox is a generative tool for learning, the proverbial door that opens when another shuts. Perhaps inspired by his Hasidic childhood, with its culture of questioning rather than answering, Feldenkrais saw paradox as a way to give the nervous system the opportunity to improvise new habits by noticing and questioning old ones.

"There is no waste in creative process." -Amy Walsh

The little things, big things, stolen moments, mess, serendipity, inspiration, education, devotion, mistakes, misspellings, struggle, dust, dream---all of it.

When you stay in the process, with the practice, in whatever imaginable and unimaginable ways, all the little drops add up.

If you are a human being, you have a deep natural wellspring of creativity that is your greatest resource for vitality.

The Feldenkrais Method is most fundamentally about rediscovering your inherent creativity and learning to apply and embody it in each moment. Your creativity is your most potent tool for diminishing your aches and pains!

"We are beginning to place enormous emphasis on creativity, but there is a tendency to think that being creative is limited to “producing” something. I would suggest to you that the basic creativity of the human being consists in his working toward his own fullest development, the realizing of his own potentials, the allowing himself to grow. What we create first is ourselves and it is out of ourselves that the producing comes.” - Mary Whitehouse

I move with my 36 week-old baby in my belly– a delicate dance of reversibility, balance, ground and breath... There is a story that pregnant women can’t move freely or comfortably. I want to transform that. I want to help people know what is possible...

"...willpower and intelligence are merely superficial expressions of the mind whereas their deeper manifestations are imagination and instinct...Educating the imagination is more important than educating the will. Man fulfills in his life what his imagination directs him to do. Each of us contains his life's image within himself. The course of our lives expresses and fulfills this image…

I found the Feldenkrais Method during a confusing search for how to have a more loving relationship with my body after growing up in a family and society that taught me to hate it. The invitations the Method offered were liberating: feel without judgement, move without comparing myself to others, and sense internally instead of looking to others to validate if what I was doing was correct. Through permission and encouragement to imperfectly cultivate my own inner sense of knowing, I found grace in a clunky un-embodied body. I found presence where I had been absent for so long. This coming home to myself was a creative, dynamic process...

I play with this experiment before and after Feldenkrais and Authentic movement lessons.  It is a way for me to track my experience of the transformations that occur through entering embodied experiences/explorations. 

What I see in the world outside, the tension and division between two opposing forces tearing at the fabric of our society- I feel inside of me. I am that. How could I not be? How could I be separate from my home? This country, this planet. I am that. That is me.