In this article I’ll share with you some ideas to enhance your self awareness and some steps to help you sit more comfortably and improve your performance in athletic and recreational activities that involve seated positions. My own experience of injury and chronic back pain resulted in my inability to [...]
Horses and riding are my lifelong passion. One of my first memories of horses was sitting on my neighbor's horse as a very young child. Every time my parents tried to take me off the horse I would cry! There was an immediate electric connection between the two of us. [...]
For many people sitting and driving — two of our most common activities — are frequently challenging, or even painful. As a Feldenkrais® teacher I’ve noticed that most of my students who find sitting uncomfortable have the idea that if they could just find the “right” chair and the “right” [...]
by Margot Schaal, GCFP CM A couple decades into teaching the Feldenkrais Method® I decided to venture into Figure Skating classes to expand my movement vocabulary on the ice,. I wanted to learn some moves beyond my rudimentary childhood skating experience, which was on a rough pond or flooded playground [...]
By Emily Stein, GCFP CM I often joke with my students in Feldenkrais ATM® class: “This is the opposite of ballet class! In my ballet class, you have to do everything I say. In ATM class you don’t have to do anything I say, if you don’t want to!” This [...]
By Shona Lee, GCFP CM Getting organized. What does that mean to you? Does a particular domain in your life come to mind? I see organizing as an act of bringing some sort of structure to chaos by recognizing patterns, establishing systems and relationships and decluttering what’s no longer useful. In [...]
By Jennifer Lee, GCFP, Senior Moving Together Instructor and Training Facilitator, Allison Klinger, GCFP, Moving Together Senior Instructor, Chris Stribling, GCFP, Moving Together Instructor, and LeeAnn Starovasnik, GCFP, Moving Together Instructor The Moving Together Program The Moving Together program is an integrative, online, live-streaming group movement program developed specifically [...]
By Jennifer Lee, GCFP, Senior Moving Together Instructor and Training Facilitator, Allison Klinger, GCFP, Moving Together Senior Instructor, Chris Stribling, GCFP, Moving Together Instructor, and LeeAnn Starovasnik, GCFP, Moving Together Instructor The Moving Together Program The Moving Together program is an integrative, online, live-streaming group movement program developed specifically for [...]
By Seth Dellinger, GCFPCM Is there a formula for feeling connected – to yourself, to other people, and your world? No, not exactly. But there are certain signals that show up consistently in your experience that you can learn to recognize and relate to intentionally in daily life to [...]
by Anna Haltrecht, GCFP CM In these past two years of limited physical connection with other people, our own touch became a really important tool. Now we can continue to explore the deep benefits of this touch. We can find the closed feedback loop of self-touch: the kinesthetic sensation of [...]