Ralph Strauch died on December 18, 2024. Ralph was an early member of the Feldenkrais Guild Board of Directors and Ethics Committee, and a frequent presenter at Guild conferences. Ralph introduced the Feldenkrais® community to email in the 1980’s, and created our first online forum. Ralph will be fondly remembered [...]
"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 [...]
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) [...]
Personal Injury I recently returned from two international conferences where I had the honor of learning from the preeminent researchers, doctors, teachers, and practitioners in the field of musicians’ health and wellness. As I listened, taught, and talked amongst them, I discovered almost all of us had one additional trait [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Old Joke: Why was Ginger Rogers more talented than Fred Estaire? Because Ginger had to do everything Fred did, only backwards and in heels. As a resident of New York City for over 30 years, I walked a lot of miles as a commuter. Over uneven sidewalks and landscaped paths [...]
Are you experiencing difficulties with your sleep? Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night and struggling to return to sleep? Perhaps you're having trouble falling asleep initially, or you find it challenging to wake up in the morning? Before diving into a plethora of techniques, [...]
Pain can degrade our quality of life in many ways. For example, it can undermine our capacity for pleasure, interfere with our relationships, and make it difficult to work. More insidiously, it can decrease the quantity and compromise the quality of our sleep, creating a vicious cycle. This is because [...]