Lessons & Learning Blog

October’s weekly Zoom classes: Free Your Spine

September 28, 2021

Free Your Spine with Feldenkrais Tuesdays in October, 9:30-10:30 AM Central time, with live discussion after class Led by Nick Strauss-Klein. Lesson notes, free “homework” recommendations, and recordings are delivered by email Tuesday afternoons. Designed to reduce chronic back pain and tension, October’s weekly classes can help you “free your spine” by tuning into the details…

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Why keep a Feldenkrais journal? (And how to get started!)

September 24, 2021

This post contains how-to info for everyone, plus journal templates for Feldenkrais Project donors. As to the idea of a journal: I felt a need to have one after I joined the Feldenkrais Project. I do a lesson, then write in a notebook the date, name of the lesson, and a comment. The comment can…

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New free lesson added to Freeing the Spine, Chest, Shoulders, and Neck

September 15, 2021

We’re pleased to share with the entire Feldenkrais Project community The Power of Prone, Twisting on Your Belly, which takes an important place in one of our most popular lesson collections. It’s designed as a “gateway lesson” to help adults get comfortable with “tummy time”! Learning and improving on your belly has many of the…

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Learning How to Learn is our theme for September’s weekly Zoom classes

August 26, 2021

Learning How to Learn Tuesdays in September, 9:30-10:30 AM Central time, with live discussion after class, and lesson notes and recordings delivered by email Feldenkrais Trainer Deborah Bowes leads our class Sept 7. Nick teaches Sept 14, 21, & 28 One has to set about learning to learn as is befitting for the most important…

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“Long, Tall, & Graceful” is our theme for August’s weekly Zoom classes

July 27, 2021

This feeling of the spine lengthening accompanies most actions of the body when they are properly carried out. – Moshe Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement   In August our weekly class returns to a favorite Feldenkrais topic of mine: how to find and take advantage of our full length and height. Unlike our animal friends we…

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Nick’s Podcast Interview on Feldenkrais: Moving into the Unknown

June 24, 2021

In the spring of 2021 I was interviewed on the Feldenkrais: Moving into the Unknown podcast. The hosts were training to become professional Feldenkrais Practitioners, and part of their podcast’s mission is to explore how “to truly embody our human potential in a world of constant change.” I love it! They’re working hard, through this…

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“Walking with Your Sternum” is free to all until July 5

June 10, 2021

This post originally appeared as a Feldenkrais Project Newsletter, which arrives in inboxes 2-3 times per month and features our freely offered, donor-supported lesson content. Click here to subscribe. Hello Felden-fans, This month’s featured free lesson is normally part of our “thank you” lessons for Feldenkrais Project Patron-level donors, but with so many listeners getting…

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Feldenkrais Trainer Deborah Bowes leads July weekly Zooms

May 27, 2021

Recordings of this course are available in video and audio form, for streaming or downloading, on our pay-what-you-can Zoom class page. Deborah is a Feldenkrais Trainer whose remarkable career of teaching and study has included a doctorate of Physical Therapy and decades of experience in Tai Chi, dance, and yoga. Her work has been profoundly…

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“Walking with Your Whole Self” is our Zoom class topic for May and June

April 27, 2021

MAY 21 UPDATE: By request from the students we’re continuing our Walking with Your Whole Self theme through June! Walking is a boon for all ages. It provides exercise, builds bone, aids digestion, and even has psychological benefits. But often as we age – accumulating sedentary habits, injuries, and the effects of the world’s hard,…

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Register here for the FREE Feldenkrais Awareness Summit, including my ATM lesson on May 1

April 22, 2021

It’s time again for the Feldenkrais Awareness Summit. Just like The Feldenkrais Project it’s free and available to anyone with an internet connection. Last year’s summit reached 30,000 people! I’m sharing this with you because it fits in beautifully with our vision to share the life-changing benefits of Feldenkrais study as widely as possible, AND…

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