The way we see ourselves shapes how we live our life and how we practice as Feldenkrais® teachers. Gaining clarity about your own self-image can help so much in seeing your clients with more clarity. For this issue of InTouch, we were lucky to interview two great trainers, Larry Goldfarb and Zoran [...]
We have a lot of fears about growing our practices. The challenge is always in finding a balance that serves not only your professional but also life goals and figuring out what clients inspire you and what clients drain you. This issue has articles and interviews that address these topics [...]
Our profession can be lonely at times and the community can offer support and inspiration that we all need. The upcoming FGNA conference aims at just that: creating a sharing and inspiring community that will offer new learning and support.In this issue of In Touch, Paris Kern shares her view [...]
The approach to learning movement in the Feldenkrais Method® is a fundamentally different pedagogy to most traditional dance forms, such as ballet. Instead of an emphasis on memorization and the execution of a series of “correct” movements, the Feldenkrais® student is invited to engage with the body in a non-goal-oriented [...]
"More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences." - Moshe Feldenkrais In this edition of InTouch, Elinor Silverstein, Raz Ori and David Kaetz each share unique perspectives on the way we use our five senses to bridge [...]
Every Feldenkrais® practitioner knows that Moshe Feldenkrais was a highly accomplished physicist before he created the transformative somatic learning modality that is known today as the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. However, during his lifetime, Feldenkrais was not fully accepted by the scientific community and much of what he understood [...]
The world was forever changed by the global pandemic that erupted in late 2019, with schools, workplaces and other institutions shutting down around the globe. For many Feldenkrais practitioners, the situation on the ground became the impetus to enter the virtual teaching space for the first time. Yet now that [...]
Today's world is radically different from the one in which Moshe Feldenkrais created the method that bears his name. Yet much of Moshe's formative experiences are mirrored in the multiple crises that are unfolding today at an accelerating rate. It is enough to remind ourselves that Moshe was born in [...]
Beginning with the biography of its founder, the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education has always been an approach to human development that skillfully crosses borders. While the benefits of practicing Awareness Through Movement® classes resonate with universal aspects of human experience, Moshe Feldenkrais also placed a strong emphasis on respecting - and further developing [...]
One of the most important innovations of the pedagogy of Moshe Feldenkrais was his emphasis on the importance of individual autonomy on the path to realizing more universal qualities of human potential. He repeatedly urged his students and clients to listen to their own internal sense of what felt 'right' [...]