The content of this article is an excerpt from Larissa Babij’s blog, A Kind of Refugee, where she shares reflections about her experiences living in wartime Ukraine. In an email to SenseAbility, Larissa wrote: “My Feldenkrais training prepared me well for living through the uncertainty and turmoil following russia's full-scale [...]
This summer certainly did not go as expected. I moved to Montpelier for the summer of 2023, having grown up there and wanting a summer break from my life in the city of Boston. Montpelier is the capital of Vermont, a small, charming city of 8,000 people. I once thought [...]
For two days out of the week I can stand up straight with little or no pain - all because I have attended a Feldenkrais session. How I look forward to those two days! In my retirement, after years of employment in which I constantly stood - as a sales [...]
Back in my 50’s, oh so long ago, yet seems like yesterday, I was teaching a workshop on graceful aging. I felt eminently qualified -, after all, I now had my AARP membership. The class that day was about resilience and I was demonstrating spiraling down to the floor and [...]
When do you get comfortable? Meaning, what are you doing when you feel comfortable? Is this a silly question? Think on it. What if I said you’ll discover you may be living your life in a rather odd way. Among the answers I get when I ask “When do you [...]
Canadian Director: Sue Seto I would like to continue to represent practitioners who reside and practice in Canada maintaining clear and meaningful communication. As Canadian Director, I would like to continue to contribute to my committee work. These committees are: Membership Committee, Policy Committee, Executive Committee and Portfolio holder of the Service Mark [...]
by Margot Schaal, GCFP CM A couple decades into teaching the Feldenkrais Method® I decided to venture into Figure Skating classes to expand my movement vocabulary on the ice,. I wanted to learn some moves beyond my rudimentary childhood skating experience, which was on a rough pond or flooded playground [...]
By Emily Stein, GCFP CM I often joke with my students in Feldenkrais ATM® class: “This is the opposite of ballet class! In my ballet class, you have to do everything I say. In ATM class you don’t have to do anything I say, if you don’t want to!” This [...]
By Shona Lee, GCFP CM Getting organized. What does that mean to you? Does a particular domain in your life come to mind? I see organizing as an act of bringing some sort of structure to chaos by recognizing patterns, establishing systems and relationships and decluttering what’s no longer useful. In [...]
By Jennifer Lee, GCFP, Senior Moving Together Instructor and Training Facilitator, Allison Klinger, GCFP, Moving Together Senior Instructor, Chris Stribling, GCFP, Moving Together Instructor, and LeeAnn Starovasnik, GCFP, Moving Together Instructor The Moving Together Program The Moving Together program is an integrative, online, live-streaming group movement program developed specifically [...]