Our Little Dips explore a theme of Feldenkrais learning, then illustrate it with one or more lessons. They always include at least one free lesson. Little Dips are first published in our newsletter.


In July of 2025 I joined my wife, Jen, on her clergy sabbatical. We explored the remarkable links between Feldenkrais’s secular learning principles and a 1,000 year old habit-changing Jewish contemplative tradition, Mussar.

We did Feldenkrais lessons together almost every day, and it was transformative! Below I’ve included inspiration from The FP’s community of Felden-fans who describe the effects of regular study, including a letter from a new Patron at the bottom of the post. You’ll also find many Feldenkrais lesson resources below.

Perhaps you’ll pursue your own deep study! If you do, let us know what you discover in the comments below.

– Nick Strauss-Klein

 

Deep Study at The FP

Just finished the free lessons in order in about 6 months. I just wanted to thank you Nick for this great journey. I think I will revisit all of them at some point.

– Tomai Koch

We currently offer 55 free lessons, so Tomai averaged 2+ lessons per week! Some people study even more often:

The free lessons gave me a chance to try out doing 3 to 4 per week—something I could never do if I was paying for each lesson. The Patron level allows me to sustain that without running out of things to explore.

– PG (there’s more from PG below)

PG is enjoying our 100 additional lessons for Patrons. Of course most people study less often than 3-4 times per week, but the benefits of regular study are still big. A once-a-week Felden-fan in our Pay-What-You-Can Class recently shared:

I’m so pleased with how often I notice my sense of groundedness and lifting up and through in regular life. It makes difficult situations easier.

– JS

Whatever your current engagement with Feldenkrais, consider joining me in studying more often for a month. Feel for yourself the wide-ranging benefits!

 

There are many ways to study deeply at The FP:

Tight on time? Try to do, in one week or less, two or more of our 30+ short lessons—then see how you feel!

And don’t forget, if you become a Member or Patron (for as little as $3) you can keep track of your played, saved, and “faved” lessons on My Journey.

 


 

Here are two powerful short sequences of lessons to get you started on studying more deeply.

 

Lifting Up and Through Sequence

 

ALWAYS FREE
Lifting Up and Through

 

MEMBERS AND PATRONS BONUS VIDEO
Lifting Up and Through 2: Organizing Your Feet

 

MEMBERS AND PATRONS BONUS VIDEO
Lifting Up and Through 3: Buttocks and Buoyancy

 

To dive even deeper into this material, check out Grounding for Liftoff

 

Two Patron Lessons:

Pelvis Lifting and Rotating on Its Axis

Part 1 and Part 2

 Unlock profound ease for your chest, spine, and hips in this challenging and rewarding Moshe Feldenkrais original. To develop an image for the unusual movements of your pelvis you’ll first get to know the difference between rolling and rotating your head.

This got me to a place inside myself I feel like I’ve never been.

– Stephen Stern

The ‘doing’ becomes more fluid, more natural and freed of deep-seated anxiety after these lessons.

– Julie Turner [more reflections from Julie]

Feldenkrais professionals: Together these lessons are Nick’s rendering of Alexander Yanai lesson #43, “Lifting the pelvis on standing feet”.

 


 

Letter from a New Patron

One of the students quoted above sent much more detail in her email about her experience studying a lot of Feldenkrais. Some fascinating wisdom here, shared with her permission.

Hi Nick,

I’m just writing to say a HUGE thank you for the Feldenkrais Project. I’ve spent much of my adult life largely homebound/bedbound by chronic illness and have recovered enough in recent years that I’ve been facing the challenge of how to move and operate well. Fundamental retraining. I’ve done lots of things over lots of years and have gotten many benefits from other systems. But ATM/Feldenkrais is so well suited to where I am now. I haven’t found much that’s really helpful at that integration level.

I started with a local teacher and a live class (in addition to some one-on-one work). And then I realized I needed to do it much more often than a weekly lesson to get the benefits I was looking for.

So yay for the Feldenkrais Project! It allowed me to start with short basic lessons, skip things I knew would be too hard for me, start one and decide it wasn’t right then start another, do it when the time is right for me, etc. Plus I think I’m better at sticking to my limitations when it’s just me and the audio. And the free lessons gave me a chance to try out doing 3 to 4 per week—something I could never do if I was paying for each lesson. The Patron level allows me to sustain that without running out of things to explore.

The project really does make this work accessible in a powerful way. Thank you.

Best,

PG

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