16 12, 2024

Attending to the Whole Self in a Feldenkrais Lesson: Embracing Connections Between Body and Psyche – By Fritha Pengelly

2024-12-16T10:51:01-05:00December 16, 2024|Habits, Introduction, Stress|

“There are two major roads for changing a person’s behavior – either through the psyche or through the body. However, real change has to be brought about in a way which allows both the body and the psyche to be changed simultaneously. If the approach is not integral but through [...]

18 11, 2024

Movement, the Mind and the Scientific Method – An Article by Joe Webster

2024-11-18T13:52:18-05:00November 18, 2024|Creativity, Daily Living, Habits, Introduction, Neuroplasticity, News|

Within a Feldenkrais lesson we often use the imagination to help clarify and refine our self image. An example of this is the guided ‘body scan’ that often happens at the beginning of a lesson: a process in which you bring your attention to sensory feedback (proprioceptive, exteroceptive and interoceptive) [...]

12 08, 2024

How Play Evolves Consciousness – An Article by Catherine Rosasco Mitchell

2024-08-12T11:44:53-04:00August 12, 2024|Breathing, Child Development, Featured, Habits, Neuroplasticity, News|

How Play Evolves Consciousness: From the first days in the body there are movements, reflexes. These are the first movements, the playfulness that kicks our feet, gurgles from our mouths, and curls our toes. This playful action is stimulated through the interchange of desires and incoming sensations. As we begin [...]

3 07, 2024

Understanding and Identifying Breathing Challenges – By Fariya Doctor, GCFP

2024-07-03T10:30:20-04:00July 3, 2024|Breathing, Habits, Introduction, Neuroplasticity, News, Recovery, Stress|

By Fariya Doctor, GCFP It was The Feldenkrais Method that helped me discover that there wasn't just one way to breathe. However, I still struggled with understanding and identifying why I was having so much trouble with breathing. After studying the science of breath and becoming a Buteyko Instructor all [...]

19 01, 2022

This is Not a Piece of Paper

2022-01-19T22:17:24-05:00January 19, 2022|Habits, Members|

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 [...]

2 12, 2021

An Innocent Joint

2021-12-03T09:26:11-05:00December 2, 2021|Habits, Healthy Aging, Knees|

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 [...]

3 11, 2021

Happiness and Wellbeing

2021-11-03T21:26:42-04:00November 3, 2021|Daily Living, Habits|

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 [...]

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