Lessons & Learning Blog
Don’t Have an Hour? You Can Still Enjoy a Lesson
The following first appeared as an June 2019 newsletter for the Feldenkrais Project email list. You can subscribe right here. “I don’t have an hour.” “My lesson was interrupted.” “Can I still do [or finish] a lesson?” This kind of question is perhaps the most common one I’ve received about studying our hour-long Feldenkrais Awareness…
October’s new lesson for Patrons is good for newcomers and longtimers
For Patrons and anyone curious about the many “thank you” benefits we offer our Patron-level donors, check out this month’s new Patron lesson newsletter, featuring Reaching, Twisting, and Gazing Smoothly. It’s the latest addition to our rapidly growing Patrons Monthly lesson collection, exclusive for Feldenkrais Project Patrons. In this lesson’s Curiosities tab you’ll also find…
Patrons Monthly: More Lessons, Less Fanfare!
Announcing minor housekeeping changes at the Feldenkrais Project: Rather than making a blog post like this every time I add a new lesson to our rapidly growing collection of additional lessons exclusively for our Patron-level donors, anyone (current donor or not, logged in or not) can simply take a peek at our Patrons Monthly collection to…
Learning to Learn, and Reflections on Teaching Feldenkrais
This “little dip” includes discussion and a lesson exploring how the job of a Feldenkrais Practitioner is actually to help each person learn how to learn for themselves, from themselves.
July Patrons Monthly lesson added for Patrons
Stepping Down, with a Bias is now uploaded for streaming in our Patrons Monthly collection, which features exclusive new content monthly for donors who join the Feldenkrais Project at the Patron level ($18 per month, or larger one-time donations).
Pain During a Lesson: Connie’s Story
This “little dip” of discussion and lessons explores how we can respond to pain during study. By continually turning toward comfort and curiosity, no matter what else about the lesson we have to give up, we restore pain to its natural place as a behavior modifier, and we open the path of change and improvement.
Recent New Lessons for Patrons Can Be Studied in Sequence
In my June 2019 Feldenkrais Project featured newsletter, I laid out a sequence of lessons as a “peek at Patron perks.” These lessons, which I copied below, can be studied in order. I’ve been enjoying the through-line of learning in these lessons, and wanted to share this “course” of study with Patrons. I encourage you…
New Lesson for Everyone!
Spine and Chest Side-bending, Lengthening the Limbs is now available for all visitors and donors to enjoy in our Miscellaneous Lessons collection!
June Patrons Monthly lesson added for Patrons
Walking with Your Sternum is now uploaded for streaming in our Patrons Monthly collection, which features exclusive new content monthly for donors who join the Feldenkrais Project at the Patron level ($18 per month, or larger one-time donations).
Updated How Unordered Lesson Collections Display
You’ll now find that our collections with lessons that are not laid out in a purposeful learning sequence now list the lessons from newest to oldest: Miscellaneous Lessons Legacy and Alternate Lessons (Patrons) Patrons Monthly (Patrons) Archived Live Video Lessons (Patrons)