Have you ever seen a Feldenkrais practitioner do a Judo roll? When you observe a Feldenkrais lesson, you would likely see someone lying in relation to the ground, using slow movements and directed attention to improve their own self-use. What you wouldn’t necessarily see, unless your eyes had been trained to look [...]
“There are two major roads for changing a person’s behavior – either through the psyche or through the body. However, real change has to be brought about in a way which allows both the body and the psyche to be changed simultaneously. If the approach is not integral but through [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]