Lessons & Learning Blog

FP Weekly Zoom Class: November and Beyond

The FP Weekly Zoom Class Pay-what-you-can tuition Awareness Through Movement: Principles and Practice Tuesdays, starting in November, 2023 9:30-10:30am US Central Standard Time (click for timezone checker) All orders include an emailed lesson replay. Nick Strauss-Klein leads all dates.   Order Zoom Links and Replays Starting in November, over the next couple of months our…

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Zoom replays and free course summary now available for The Science & Art of “Effortless” Strength

The FP Weekly Zoom Class Pay-what-you-can tuition The Science & Art of “Effortless” Strength Five Tuesdays in October, 2023 Nick Strauss-Klein led all dates   Order Replays Feldenkrais sometimes seems full of paradoxes. Whether you’ve done a few Awareness Through Movement lessons or hundreds, I bet you’ve entertained thoughts like these: You said to make…

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Enjoy our new Search & Filter [Updated 2023 Upgrades Roadmap]

OCTOBER 26 UPDATE: All users can now enjoy our new Search & Filter tool. We are tweaking the weighting of keyword results, so please let us know if you have trouble finding what you’re looking for.   This year listener donations are funding a massive round of upgrades for us. As you may know from…

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Reflection and Lessons: We Evolved for Easy Walking

Updated on Oct 4, 2023: We’ve added some newer lessons. This post first appeared in 2019 as one of our monthly featured free lessons newsletter (subscribe here). Our miraculous uprightness and bipedal gait is a defining characteristic of humankind. It’s so basic to us that it’s easy to take it for granted: when we’re walking…

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New FREE Audio Lesson for Posture, Walking, and Running

October 11, 2023

This question is Moshe Feldenkrais’s title for lesson #1 in his book Awareness Through Movement, which he wrote to introduce his method to the masses. His answer…

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Resilience: Here’s the Course Summary

The FP Weekly Zoom Class Resilience Tuesdays in August and September, 2023 Nick Strauss-Klein led all dates It’s a chaotic world out there. We face unexpected challenges all the time. When life knocks us down, how do we find the internal resources to get up again? Moshe Feldenkrais’s Judo background meant he took this question…

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What Is Good Posture? Feldenkrais’s Answer (includes free lessons)

  “What Is Good Posture?” This question is Moshe Feldenkrais’s title for lesson #1 in his book Awareness Through Movement, which he wrote to introduce his method to the masses. (Here’s our collection of recordings of these foundational lessons.) His answer from the lesson introduction is simple, precise, and probably not what you’d guess: Good…

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New Feature: “Little Dips” Added to Deep Dives Page

To make it easier to find some hidden great content on our website in the form of old blog posts, we’ve just added “Little Dips” to our page of Deep Dive courses. These reflections on studying particular topics always include one or more free lessons. You can access our Deep Dive page from our homepage,…

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Replays Available – Alan Questel and Nick: Walking with Your Whole Self

Pay-what-you-can tuition. FREE intro class replay. The FP Weekly Class: Walking with Your Whole Self Tuesdays, June 13 – July 28, 2023 Nick Strauss-Klein led June 13 – July 11 Alan Questel led July 18 and July 25   Order Replays Nick’s introductory class from June 6 is a free replay: click to check out…

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New Pelvic Floor Course! First lesson free through July 16

We’ve just added a new Deep Dive course called The Pelvic Floor: Less Is More. It gathers together unique new lessons I’ve added to The FP’s collection this spring, and some closely related oldies-but-goodies. To read our newsletter about it, and learn about our temporary “peek at Patron perks” (the first lesson is free through…

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