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 [...]
Tim Sobie, PT, Ph.D., GCFP CM The Feldenkrais Method® & Embracing the Present (...well kinda...) Published in In Touch Magazine, July 2022 “So this Feldenkrais stuff...it’s just about movement isn’t it?...” As a practitioner in our method, I’m certain you’ve heard something to this effect while in discussion with prospective clients, [...]
By Annie Thoe, GCFP CM Sensing my bones continues to be one of the most profound experiences I have with the Feldenkrais Method®. This 3-D experience of the human skeleton can be healing and life changing. How can my clients sense their bones? Throughout my career, I’ve explored how to use [...]
By Fariya Doctor, GCFP CM It was The Feldenkrais Method® that helped me discover that there wasn't just one way to breathe. However, I still struggled with understanding and identifying why I was having so much trouble with breathing. After studying the science of breath and becoming a Buteyko Instructor all [...]
By Didi von Deck, MD, GCFP CM Almost everyone will get back pain at some point in their lives. Sometimes the pain doesn’t last very long, but sometimes the pain just doesn’t go away. About 20 percent of people affected by acute low back pain go on to develop chronic low [...]
Can you explain how skin affects balance? By Carol Montgomery, GCFP It is commonly known that loss of joint range of motion in the foot, ankle, hip and spine can impact one’s balance1-3, especially when trying to walk across an uneven parking lot, the backyard, down a gravel driveway [...]
By Joe Webster, GCFP CM Many people are confused by the slow and tranquil practice of Taiji Quan (Tai Chi) thinking that just because the sequences are practised slowly that there is no way that could translate into an actual fighting situation, let alone be a useful and effective way of [...]
By Cheryl Whitelaw I followed my curiosity into becoming a Feldenkrais practitioner. What I learned through the Feldenkrais Method transformed how I am able to learn and perform in aikido, a modern Japanese martial art. I started aikido at age 46 and the Feldenkrais Method at age 50. I [...]
By Carolyn Palmer, GCFP CM, Ph.D., for SenseAbility May 2022 Hands and feet are wonderfully sensitive, and they do so much! Here are some ideas for sensation and movement explorations focused on hands or feet. You can do these on yourself, or on someone else (who will thank you for [...]