A little while back, I was having some troubles sleeping. You know. Tossing, turning, worrying. And - because I am the luckiest girl in the world - my sweetie (Seth) recorded this guided meditation to help me drift into some much needed slumber. I loved the imagery so much that I [...]
I ended Part 1: Refining the Somatic Practices: The Story of Jenny and Susan, with this question: "How can we evolve our somatic practices to meet the changing needs of people, not to mention the diversity of people coming to us, especially in a class format?" First of all, a [...]
I think it might have been in June last year when one of my teachers said: "The somatic practices need to be more refined." These seven words really, REALLY, got me thinking. In 7 months of thinking and asking other people - my clients, colleagues, teachers - it seems unanimous: Yep. Refinement [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LelXa3U_I Click here to re-tweet "Produce the conditions so that you can learn: Industrial vs agricultural model of education" Two Lectures. One Message. Today I had the pleasure of listening to a lecture given by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in the early 80's during his last North American Feldenkrais Training in [...]
In my life, two major (health-related) events have catalyzed my quest for learning very detailed ‘stuff’ about my own body and various healing modalities and medicines. The first were a handful of pretty bad knee injuries that weren’t getting better with conventional therapies (actually the knee pieces got fixed really [...]
This post is more like a mini e-book. Please don't be scared. Many words, but trust me, it could potentially lead you to many more words in the form of books. Yes books. Remember books? Do you still read books? This post is a compilation of books, mostly non-fiction with [...]
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For Pianists and ANYONE who sits and uses their arms and hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UohDzxnEqHc Andrew Gibbons, Classical Pianist and Feldenkrais Practitioner in New York City, describes the process of discovering whole body awareness from a Feldenkrais perspective and how to produce better musical sound by finding greater skeletal support in sitting. This [...]
Sheryl Field is the founder of The Field Center: For Children’s Integrated Development. What she does and the remarkable impact she has made on the lives of many families who were given very little hope for their children’s disabilities must be shared with other families in similar situations. Video Clip #2: [...]
Lifting Real Weight Intelligently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNmrPcZ1mg Many don't realize that Moshe Feldenkrais, the founder of the Feldenkrais Method was at one point a very talented athlete, laborer and martial arts expert. He understood what it meant to lift weight. REAL WEIGHT. Proportional distribution of muscular tone, optional transmission of force through [...]
