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20 08, 2020

Opening Doors: Bringing Feldenkrais® In

Mary Rudd2020-08-21T11:33:20-04:00August 20, 2020|Members, News|

An Interview with Stacy Barrows In Touch: Stacy, like so many others, your business and practice have been affected by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Can you share how the shift in your business took you deeper into some of the basics of the method? Stacy: I had moved from my former [...]

20 07, 2020

BETWEEN ME AND YOU: Understanding Breath, Voice and Transformation

Lavinia Plonka2020-07-20T22:43:32-04:00July 20, 2020|Members|

credit Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash by Robert Sussuma As Feldenkrais Practitioners, we often describe our work in FI as a conversation between two nervous systems in which we use touch as our mode of communication. Like speech, our movements carry messages and intentions, our touch indicates tone and [...]

11 06, 2020

Moving Forward

admin_feldenkrais2020-06-11T10:10:30-04:00June 11, 2020|Members|

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” The quotation seems like vintage Moshe Feldenkrais. However, it’s actually by Maya Angelou. The recent protests around the world have renewed attention on social justice issues; and specifically at this time, systemic racism. Many [...]

25 05, 2020

Tech Plus Touch Connects You to Your Clients

MaryBeth Smith2020-05-26T08:23:50-04:00May 25, 2020|Members|

As the realities of current constraints to our habitual ways of practicing the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education become apparent, new growth opportunities in learning and day-to-day business practices are in front of us. Online tools and apps can bring your livelihood up to business standards your clients are used [...]

25 05, 2020

A New Path Out of Anxiety

MaryBeth Smith2020-05-26T08:24:52-04:00May 25, 2020|Members, Stress|

by Zoe Birch, MA GCFP I wrote this article a number of years ago, inspired by Moshe's quote about aggression being a behavior, not an energy. In today's challenging and reactive climate, it is worth revisiting this idea of aggression as a behavioral expression of helplessness, impotence, and anxiety. The [...]

25 05, 2020

Could You Unmute Yourself? Stories from the Front Lines of Online Events

Lavinia Plonka2020-05-26T10:11:33-04:00May 25, 2020|Members|

Muppets meme via Facebook Online teaching offers so many opportunities to embody the principles of the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education. Flexibility. Resilience. Learning from mistakes. How many times have your students tried to ask a question while muted? We thought we’d explore some of the challenges and gaffes that [...]

15 04, 2020

What Have You Learned from Teaching Online?

MaryBeth Smith2020-04-15T23:54:17-04:00April 15, 2020|Members|

We wanted to know what our colleagues were learning since the jump online, so we reached out to Ray Sylvester, Vita Kolodny, Cathy Paine, Nancy Linsley, and Bob Chapra to hear about their experiences. Bob Chapra, Philadelphia PA: 1. You can’t beat the overhead 2. People who live a distance [...]

15 04, 2020

Business and Personal Development: What’s Next?

MaryBeth Smith2020-04-15T23:30:47-04:00April 15, 2020|Members|

We’ve done an extraordinary thing. Think about it. In just a little over a month’s time, culture and society have undergone a dramatic transformation. The economic, psychological, and logistical challenges of the time, and their effects, will reverberate far into the future. So what have WE done? We are adapting. [...]

15 04, 2020

Successive Approximations: Larry Goldfarb on the Opportunities and Constraints of Online Learning

MaryBeth Smith2020-04-15T23:05:49-04:00April 15, 2020|Members|

As many of us are learning to teach online, we thought we’d touch base with one of our community pioneers in online learning, Dr. Larry Goldfarb. Larry was an early adopter of technology, driven by curiosity. “The path to where we are now with online learning sort of started by [...]

16 03, 2020

Checklist of Best Practices: Options as You Move Forward

MaryBeth Smith2020-03-16T22:29:26-04:00March 16, 2020|Members|

While we can’t cover everything here, we hope these pointers will get you started as you shift to a “new normal” in your practice. In this article you will learn how to communicate with your clients, investigate Zoom and the basics of online teaching, and how to communicate with your [...]

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