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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m a collaborator and life-long learner by nature. As a dancer I loved the process of solving movement and choreography problems as a group. Through good fortune, I’ve managed to bring that spirit to my practice as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher ® . I’ve learned that it sometimes takes [...]
When I was in my 30s I was told that I would need knee replacements in the future due to osteoarthritis and cartilage deterioration in both of my knees. The idea of surgery was scary, especially at that age, and I tried to put it off for as long as [...]
By Carolyn Palmer, GCFPCM, Ph.D. One day I could walk without much thought. Then one day I couldn’t, even with thought. It started with what felt like a pulled muscle in my back. Tense over my dog’s emergency surgery, I attributed the pain to those very anxious few days. But [...]
By Arnold Askew, GCFPCM The shoulder is a wonderfully designed joint that allows us to have almost unlimited range of mobility of the upper arm. The upper arm or humerus has a ball at the end that fits in the socket of the scapula. It reflects the similar type [...]