Interview with Mara Fusero, Feldenkrais® Trainer Conducted by Yulia Kriskovets How would you define healthy feet? I think healthy feet are feet that are able to answer any question that comes from the ground. It could be a pavement, rocky road, or sandy beach. In order to support a [...]
By Al Wadleigh That headline caught my attention when it came through my LoudWire feed the other day. Move over, Slash! Meet Johnatha Bastos, a Brazilian guitarist who plays solely with his feet. Johnatha was born without arms and hands, and he can play the guitar with the speed, grace, [...]
By Paulette Dolin, GCFPCM There’s a reason I start many of my Feldenkrais classes with people finding their footprint on the floor. In standing upright, our feet bear the weight and balance us. It’s easy to forget about them once we put shoes on unless our feet hurt. When we’re [...]
By Vladimir Latocha In July 1996, the pleasant warmth of Atlanta was welcoming thousands of athletes from all over the world. Inside the Olympic Village, the Aquatic Center was basically a roof over two pools. This roof was about 50 meters above a surface that could comfortably host a [...]
By Taro Iwamoto, GCFP How do you describe someone who is fit? What’s your image of being fit? People often refer to someone being fit as being in a good physical condition. You might think of someone who works out regularly and appears lean and physically conditioned. The word “fit” [...]
By Rachel White Galvin, DMA, GCFP Fitness culture is all around us. In fact, we’re so immersed in it that it’s actually quite difficult to see. When defining fitness culture, most might begin by listing various fitness modalities: running, yoga for fitness, CrossFit, weightlifting, pilates, just to name a few. [...]
by Moshé Feldenkrais Originally published in Dromenon "A healthy person is one who can live fully his unavowed dreams." A few years before World War II, I was teaching judo to make a living while working at the Sorbonne with Joliot-Curie for my doctor's degree in Science. One of [...]
By Buffy Owens, GCFP Ahhhhh….the jaw! I recently created a short movement practice for a student titled, "reConnecting The Pelvis & Jaw." I’m sure that you know that the jaw impacts your teeth and other mouthy parts. But did you also know that the jaw and its movements play a [...]
By Paul Pui Wo Lee, GCFP The Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education has opened my eyes to the fact that judging the right-wrongness of movement could hinder one’s ability to regain their balance in response to life’s diverse situations. Becoming more at home in a wider range of movements crowns [...]
Interviewed by Yulia Kriskovets Sexual well-being and Pelvic Floor: what is the connection? Sexual well-being is one aspect of a person’s self-image. Some definitions may be useful to discuss the connection between the pelvic floor and sexual well-being. First, Moshe Feldenkrais’ definition of self-image says that self-image is composed of [...]