By Al Wadleigh, GCFP CM My wife, Sarah, and I are out for a Sunday drive. Our two dogs, Fred and Pliny, are in the back seat, napping away. I suddenly swerve to the left! I somehow realized the car next to me was drifting into my lane! [...]
By Erin Finkelstein, M.M., GCFP CM “Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.” - Rumi* What is your relationship with your eyes like, away from your computer or smartphone? Most of us take our eyes for [...]
By Darcia Dexter, GCFP CM “Mom, I can see you!” “Really? The eye doctor said you would only see out of your left eye if your right eye was covered up.” “I know, but I can SEE you!” “Okay, how many fingers am I holding up?” “Two.” “That’s a [...]
By Margot Schaal, GCFPCM and Assistant Trainer Ultimately, how we treat ourselves says everything about what our self-image is. Am I as kind to myself as I am to my neighbor, or a stranger on the street, to my clients or even my grand/child? A client who showed [...]
By Al Wadleigh, GCFP CM "A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." (Korzybski, 1958). I'm seventeen years old, a senior in high school. I'm sitting in the third row of Mr. Bliss's "General [...]
By Fariya Doctor, FCFP CM I would not describe myself as a great reader, like those people who devour books on a daily basis. I would say I am a slow, plodding, poorly educated reader that occasionally stumbles upon a “keeper”. Well I stumbled. As I was doing some [...]
By Cynthia Allen, GCFP CM How do you think of yourself? Perhaps you assign labels such as beautiful, average, heavy, thin, healthy, active, smart or uncoordinated. Perhaps you think of yourself as having value in the world…or not. We talk a lot about self-image in the Feldenkrais Method [...]
An Interview with Elizabeth Beringer, Feldenkrais® Trainer, GCFP For November 2021 SenseAbility on Knee Health Interviewed by Yulia Kriskovets Elizabeth Beringer is a well known trainer and practitioner who created one of the first audio series on knee health following her own knee injury recovery. Her recording of [...]
By Marek Wyszynski, PT, GCFPCM What is the knee joint for anyway? The primary job of the knee is to control the distance between the foot and hip dynamically. It allows us to bring our feet toward our body so we can do things like put socks on. Our [...]
By Amona Buechler, GCFP CM “Owing to the close proximity to the motor cortex of the brain structures dealing with thought and feeling, and the tendency of processes in the brain tissue to diffuse and spread to neighboring tissues, a drastic change in the motor cortex will have parallel effects on [...]