By Margot Schaal, GCFPCM and Assistant Trainer Ultimately, how we treat ourselves says everything about what our self-image is. Am I as kind to myself as I am to my neighbor, or a stranger on the street, to my clients or even my grand/child? A client who showed [...]
By Al Wadleigh, GCFP CM "A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." (Korzybski, 1958). I'm seventeen years old, a senior in high school. I'm sitting in the third row of Mr. Bliss's "General [...]
By Fariya Doctor, FCFP CM I would not describe myself as a great reader, like those people who devour books on a daily basis. I would say I am a slow, plodding, poorly educated reader that occasionally stumbles upon a “keeper”. Well I stumbled. As I was doing some [...]
By Cynthia Allen, GCFP CM How do you think of yourself? Perhaps you assign labels such as beautiful, average, heavy, thin, healthy, active, smart or uncoordinated. Perhaps you think of yourself as having value in the world…or not. We talk a lot about self-image in the Feldenkrais Method [...]
An Interview with Elizabeth Beringer, Feldenkrais® Trainer, GCFP For November 2021 SenseAbility on Knee Health Interviewed by Yulia Kriskovets Elizabeth Beringer is a well known trainer and practitioner who created one of the first audio series on knee health following her own knee injury recovery. Her recording of [...]
By Marek Wyszynski, PT, GCFPCM What is the knee joint for anyway? The primary job of the knee is to control the distance between the foot and hip dynamically. It allows us to bring our feet toward our body so we can do things like put socks on. Our [...]
By Amona Buechler, GCFP CM “Owing to the close proximity to the motor cortex of the brain structures dealing with thought and feeling, and the tendency of processes in the brain tissue to diffuse and spread to neighboring tissues, a drastic change in the motor cortex will have parallel effects on [...]
By Joyce Ann McGinn, OTR/L, GCFP CM Originally published in 2012. When I first met Enrique*, a cute three year old boy, he stood by the doorway, tilted his chin downward, moved his eyes upward and growled at me. He wanted to play with a simple shape sorter. However Enrique had [...]
By Seth Dellinger, GCFP CM Do you remember the last time you had something to say, but then changed your mind and held your tongue? A lot of people won’t have to think too far back. These days our world is awash with competing moral codes being loudly pronounced all about. [...]
By Olena Nitefor, GCFP Inner Cylinder. Drawing by Suzanne Mertner. Used with permission of the artist. When it comes to “learning anatomy,” people assume that what they are learning is facts. The joints, the muscles, the nerves… they just are. That is certainly true. But if you think about it, [...]