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 [...]
Everyone loves that feeling of being “‘in the zone” or “in flow”’ when playing a sport, playing a musical instrument, creating a work of art, or solving a problem. When you're in flow during an athletic activity, you feel confident and ready to adapt to ever-changing circumstances. You can clearly [...]
We all have habits in everything we do. They’re an essential part of being human. They allow our brains to not think through every single thing we do all day long. They’re a survival mechanism. However, it’s important to question them now and then to make sure they’re serving us [...]
Better Self Care Through Learning How to “Know Thyself” “I don’t know what you did to me but this is what I needed to release myself.” "I feel very calm and relaxed now. But I also got upset thinking about all the people who told me nothing was wrong [...]
Listen, let’s make an important distinction Many kinds of movement training distinguish themselves by the kinds of exercises that constitute their programs. One might focus on strength, another on flexibility; yet another might claim to improve both. Teachers of Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement have a different view altogether. We teach [...]
Somewhere in the mess of our personal experience - meaning our upbringing, schooling, social relationships, romantic relationships, likes, dislikes, ideas, emotions, behavior and habits - is the ‘self’. It is the place that navigates all those experiences and provides us with a sense of ‘me’ in the midst of all [...]
Greetings and pleasant movement to you, my name is Alex Schaefer, I am a physical therapist and Feldenkrais Practitioner. After 22 years working in orthopedics, neurology, sports medicine, and geriatrics in a variety of locations across the country, I have recently moved back home to Illinois to start my own [...]