By Susan Van Note “Clients need to become competent somatic partners in their own healing.” —Kathy Kain, PhD, trauma-informed somatic educator, creator of Trauma Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists® and Trauma Coupling Dynamics® (from her professional teachings) Two Fields, One Goal For decades, psychotherapists and Feldenkrais practitioners have shared [...]
The first time a bubbly, joyful feeling rose through me like a reflex, I was lying on the floor doing what looked like almost nothing. I laughed out loud as my body moved in a new, unexpected way, and delight just… surprised me. Feldenkrais is like if exercise and meditation [...]
The Feldenkrais Method is often introduced as a way to move more easily, reduce pain, or improve posture. Yet this description only touches the surface. At its core, Feldenkrais’s work is a method of learning—a way of understanding how we organise ourselves in action, perception, and thought. It asks a [...]
Prevent Injury and Recover Quickly from Gravity’s Embrace I’ve been falling all my life. As a child, I often found myself lying face down in the mud, grass or street without realizing how I got there. One memorable fall pitched me head first down the stairs. Before I could cry, [...]
As we age, our reflexes become slower and less efficient. These age-related declines affect both the central and peripheral nervous systems. The entire signal chain is slower from sensation to muscle response. There is a process of brain atrophy occurring which reduces its ability to process information and send commands [...]
I was pivoting forward in my new career at 23 years old, as a policy and consultation officer in the community sector, when my hand began to hurt. Then my arm, my neck, and so on. Handwriting, telephoning on a landline, and being hypervigilant due to my passion for my [...]
How did you begin your journey with the Feldenkrais Method? From high school through grad school I studied to be a concert pianist. I discovered Feldenkrais while I was trying to recover from a music performance-related injury. Medical approaches didn’t help, and eventually one of my teachers sent me to [...]
"This is the one time that I have in my day when I can be free of stress, expectations and demands of others," says one man, a regular student at my Awareness Through Movement® (ATM®) classes. "I haven't felt any back pain since I started the class and I feel [...]
An collection of short descriptions of the Feldenkrais Method provided by practitioners from around the world! In this month's Senseability newsletter (sign up here) we reached out to practitioners from around the world to share their 100 word descriptions of 'What the Feldenkrais Method® is?' with us. It's a fantastic [...]
“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 [...]