In 2011 Dr. Turner Osler, a retired trauma surgeon and research epidemiologist, began taking Awareness through Movement (ATM) group lessons and private Functional Integration (FI) lessons with me. He wanted to know if the Feldenkrais Method could help address his lower back pain. After a few ATMs and FIs, he [...]
Three and a-half decades ago I was a young physical therapist trying to help people improve their functional abilities. The number one reason people came to see me was back pain. Some were helped with the physical therapy interventions I was taught to apply, but many weren’t. A colleague recommended [...]
What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies but flexible brains. What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity. - Moshe Feldenkrais Many people who do individual work with a Feldenkrais practitioner for the first time find it mysterious how such a light touch can produce such a [...]
I have always been curious about how and why we motivate ourselves for the things that we do and don't want to do. In my own life I have had periods of extreme focus and motivation where I would train Taiji / Qi Gong for over 4 hours a day. [...]
My experience with Post-Covid Condition (PCC) and how the principles of the Feldenkrais method helped get me through it. I want to share with others what I’ve experienced dealing with Long COVID, also known as Post-Covid Condition (PCC) and how the principles of the Feldenkrais Method have helped me manage [...]
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 [...]
Parkour, mountain climbing and ultramarathon running. People train hard and risk their lives for these sports. Why? I propose these top three reasons: The thrill of making the impossible, possible The satisfaction of commanding their body and psyche to accomplish goals And the elation of completely attuning one's self with [...]
