The first lesson that popped into my mind was the ​Bell Hand​.

A mini Feldenkrais lesson exploring a potent position that is part of a global movement to end systemic racism.

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

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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!

"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

The injury that had seemed so permanent now feels fundamentally changed. Something else is here now, and I like the (new) feeling: integrity, strength and ability.

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.

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.

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

I was fascinated with his idea that “We act in accordance with our self image.” “Self image” expanded my idea of “body image” to include a perception of myself from the inside related to my actions in the world. 

I went back to a bodyworker after many months of doing this work, and they felt my feet and said, "Wow, you have restructured your feet!"

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.

The injury that had seemed so permanent now feels fundamentally changed. Something else is here now, and I like the (new) feeling: integrity, strength and ability.

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.

Age gracefully I’m so inspired by my Feldenkrais teachers in their 80s. They continue to improve their movement habits even as they age – just as others their age seem to keep declining…

Feel More. Update your habits. Learn to slow down. Improve your brain’s map of your body. Discover the gifts inside pain. Grow your attentional flexibility. Be mindful and spontaneous. Become yourself…

Learn to respect your physical sensations as intelligent signals. By doing Awareness Through Movement, you will begin to learn to identify the sensations that precede your pain or discomfort. Then, you will be able to take the radical, proactive step of stopping whatever you are doing, and with a few minutes of ATM, interrupt the cycle of habitual stress and pain. This is what learning to take care of yourself means.

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

The people who are coming to me via the NY Times article are intelligent, curious, fascinating people--therapists, professors, lawyers, artists, writers---open and eager to learn. It has been an honor to work with them. PAIN is the reason they all came to the method and they are finding that the same process which helps reduce their pain also supports overall well being, and for many, more vibrant creativity. It is a paradigm shift from our pain-no-gain culture.

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

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

A 1 hour video class creating space for our collective Organic Intelligence® to emerge through orienting to pleasure.

How lifting the head prepares infants for sitting, crawling, and standing. In this free Feldenkrais audio download we learn to be comfortable on the belly while orienting the head and eyes to the horizon.

Curiosity, compassion & transformation in action:
Here's a short video of Matty Wilkinson working with a child in his Feldenkrais practice and talking about curiosity, novelty and acceptance in learning.

“Failure is information—we label it failure, but it’s more like, ‘This didn’t work, I’m a problem solver, and I’ll try something else.’” -Carol Diener What's your attitude about failure? Infants and children are constantly trying things they don't yet know how to do. What can we gain from understanding a child’s approach to motor learning?

The first video of our daughter Adia in a series of daily videos her first year of life where we observe her developing movement explorations.

These videos continue to be an inspiration again and again. This is a montage of a little baby named Liv doing what babies do during their first year of life. It is these first beginnings that form the initial pieces that someone would learn while doing a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Lesson.

A letter to my daughter on her first birthday...

“To every emotional state corresponds a personal conditioned pattern of muscular contraction without which it has no existence.” -Moshe Feldenkrais, Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning, p. 128

“Most people will agree that the body and the mind are two aspects of the same thing, or two poles of the same entity, but they still cannot appreciate that there is no mind without environment…”-Moshe Feldenkrais. Chapter 17 from Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning.

"Movement is Life. Without movement, life is unthinkable." -Moshe Feldenkrais

Moshe Feldenkrais wrote a beautiful manual to accompany Awareness Through Movement® lessons called Learn to Learn which illustrates the philosophy of the Feldenkrais process.

"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.

"When a person continues to use a stereotyped pattern of behavior instead of one suitable to the present reality, the learning process has come to a standstill." -Moshe Feldenkrais, Body and Mature Behavior, p 205.

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...

In order to stand up for what we want we need to know what that is. Moshe Feldenkrais' writing (and method) gives me hope. To learn to stand on your own two feet in the context of the world around you is the ground for larger social change.

A 1 hour video class creating space for our collective Organic Intelligence® to emerge through orienting to pleasure.

It’s like no state no emotion has just one solid quality and by exploring all it`s different nuances it breaks apart and opens up to moving into something new… The most profound shift that I can put into words is this newly discovered intelligence of my own system, the rhythmic nature of it’s life and with this embodied knowledge came a sense of ease, trust and purpose that I could not be more grateful for.

2 Free Intros to JKA Solvents and Glue with Jeremy Krauss +learn about the origins, benefits and possibilities of the practice.

The injury that had seemed so permanent now feels fundamentally changed. Something else is here now, and I like the (new) feeling: integrity, strength and ability.

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