By Joe Webster, GCFP CM Many people are confused by the slow and tranquil practice of Taiji Quan (Tai Chi) thinking that just because the sequences are practised slowly that there is no way that could translate into an actual fighting situation, let alone be a useful and effective way [...]
By Cheryl Whitelaw I followed my curiosity into becoming a Feldenkrais practitioner. What I learned through the Feldenkrais Method transformed how I am able to learn and perform in aikido, a modern Japanese martial art. I started aikido at age 46 and the Feldenkrais Method at age 50. I [...]
By Carolyn Palmer, GCFP CM, Ph.D., for SenseAbility May 2022 Hands and feet are wonderfully sensitive, and they do so much! Here are some ideas for sensation and movement explorations focused on hands or feet. You can do these on yourself, or on someone else (who will thank you for [...]
An Integrated Approach to Infant Development Based on the Feldenkrais Method By Chava Shelhav, PhD with Orly Gat and Tomer Hollander Published by North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California All Right Reserved Excerpt courtesy of Somatic Resources and North Atlantic Books. Available from FeldenkraisResources.com, Better Bookstores and Amazon.com First Steps: As Walking [...]
By Carolyn Palmer, GCFPCM, Ph.D. One day I could walk without much thought. Then one day I couldn’t, even with thought. It started with what felt like a pulled muscle in my back. Tense over my dog’s emergency surgery, I attributed the pain to those very anxious few days. But [...]
By Carol Montgomery, GCFP CM Move a foot forward. Move the other foot forward. Repeat until you reach your destination…the bathroom, the kitchen, the mailbox, up a hill, the grocery store. Oh, if only walking were only that simple. The joyful feeling of freedom in movement is often appreciated only when [...]
By Angela McMillan Are you struggling to understand the online world? Have you started teaching online during the lockdown and now you love it? Are you wanting to expand your classes? Perhaps, you are wanting to create an online program but are not sure where to begin? You find learning [...]
By Marsha Novak GCFP® With the idea of nurturing a practice, I suspect the first thing that comes to mind for many is attracting new clients. For this article I chose to focus on something I find equally important – nurturing the clients who actually make appointments. My focus [...]
By Lavinia Plonka, GCFP CM I did it again. You’d think at my age, after gardening for most of my adult life, as an experienced Feldenkrais® practitioner, I’d know better. But the lure of the dirt is not based on logic. Its siren call seduces me to claw, dig, pitch, [...]
By Elinor Silverstein, GCFP CM In Feldenkrais' thinking we have a way of considering how to see things. The gentle challenge is to be able to see with our eyes and mind, and might I say, our hearts and spirits, up close and far away. And sometimes both at the same [...]