Lessons & Learning Blog
Added Easing the Jaw, Neck, and Shoulders to our public collection!
I’ve just added a new lesson for all Feldenkrais Project listeners: you can now find Easing the Jaw, Neck, and Shoulders in our Miscellaneous Lessons collection. A jaw-related lesson has been one of the very top listener requests. Happy to offer a first take on this topic! Enjoy your studies, and let me know how…
“My bones are alive!” – Reflections and Lesson on Skeletal Awareness
In this “little dip” of discussion and lessons we explore how countering gravity with bones, not muscles, enables us to do what we want in the world more easily, effectively, and comfortably.
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 Patron Treasures lesson collection, exclusive for Feldenkrais Project Patrons. In this lesson’s Curiosities tab you’ll also find…
Patron Treasures: 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 Patron Treasures 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 Patron Treasures lesson added for Patrons
Stepping Down, with a Bias is now uploaded for streaming in our Patron Treasures 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!