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, [...]
Published as part of "In Touch" October 2021. Why is anatomy knowledge so important for Feldenkrais® Practitioners? Well, the first question would be how we define anatomy, and then, why it may be useful for us as Feldenkrais Practitioners. The reason this is interesting to me is that I was [...]
by: Rebecca Roman GCFP, ABM, E-RYT 500 Thursday, October 13, 2016 It seems to be that more than ever, people are looking beyond traditional medicine, sports, performance arts, and exercise routines for alternative paths to well-being. With more research in the sciences of consciousness, movement, and neuroplasticity, we are [...]
By Arnold Askew, GCFPCM The shoulder is a wonderfully designed joint that allows us to have almost unlimited range of mobility of the upper arm. The upper arm or humerus has a ball at the end that fits in the socket of the scapula. It reflects the similar type [...]
By Lavinia Plonka, GCFP For thousands of years, humans have slung sheaves of wheat, yoked water buckets, hauled axes and strapped their babies across their shoulders. The shoulder girdle was designed to work. Putting your shoulder to the wheel was once a literal activity. Even today, we carry our [...]
By Erin Finkelstein, GCFP After a recent class, one of my students exclaimed, “I was so confused during this lesson!” My response was, “I completely understand, and that’s a beautiful place to start.” I remember feeling confused as a student during my early Awareness Through Movement (ATM®) experiences, and yet [...]
By Moti Nativ Japanese saying: "Saru-mo-ki-kara-ochiru" – meaning that even a Monkey falls from a Tree This well known Japanese saying expresses the reality that everyone makes Mistakes. My experiences falling have taught me that falling is an outcome of the inevitable mistakes we all make. Since 1975, when I started [...]
By Nancy Haller, GCFPCM, MA, Feldenkrais® Assistant Trainer When living with a brain injury there is a sense of loss and being lost. “What was” isn’t any longer and “what is” has little relationship to now. What a conundrum of experiences to fit into daily living as you develop [...]
By Molly Tipping, GCFPCM “I feel grounded!” The words spontaneously tumble out from the mouths of my students and clients as they stand after a Feldenkrais session. For some it sounds as if they are connecting with a warm familiar feeling, for others it’s like a reuniting with [...]
By Annie Thoe, GCFPCM Cultivating nature awareness is very similar to the Feldenkrais Method® in tracking patterns of movement, effort and skeletal alignment. The process of building awareness of the natural world takes time and steady discipline to track changes and patterns in the environment. One of the [...]