Lessons & Learning Blog

Collection: Lessons for Learning the Limbs, from the Center

June 29, 2017

Each can be studied on its own, or you can work your way through the whole collection to learn in-depth how to improve the organization of your hips, shoulders, and torso and improve your functional awareness of their relationships.

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Collection: 12 Lessons from “Awareness Through Movement”

December 10, 2015

These audio lessons are sourced directly from Moshe Feldenkrais’s 1972 book, Awareness Through Movement. Over the years, the Feldenkrais Practitioner community has begun to teach many of these lessons in other ways, as I often do myself. But there’s great learning value in carefully examining Feldenkrais’s originals, so for these recordings I’ve mostly retained his steps and lesson titles even as I teach in my own words.

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Study Guide for the book “Awareness Through Movement”

October 22, 2015

While Moshe Feldenkrais’s 1972 book titled Awareness Through Movement is one of his most accessible works, his scientific writing and broad musings about the social and anthropological implications of his discoveries can be challenging to parse. The whole book is worth reading, but I’ve highlighted below the sections that are most helpful to read before…

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Collection: Lessons for Freeing Your Spine, Chest, Shoulders, and Neck

August 24, 2015

Each can be studied on its own, or you can work your way through the whole series to learn in-depth how to better organize your torso to reduce pain and stress, and improve your comfort, flexibility, breathing, posture, balance, and power.

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Collection: Lying Down Lessons for Better Posture, Walking, and Running

February 18, 2015

Each can be studied on its own, or you can work your way through the whole collection to learn in-depth how to better sense and organize your body to reduce pain and improve your posture, balance, mobility, and power.

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Collection: Miscellaneous Lessons

February 18, 2015

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) audio lessons that don’t happen to fit into our primary collections. There’s no particular learning order to this collection, so they’re displayed from newest to oldest. Lessons can be chosen and repeated as you wish. Follow your curiosity! If a lesson isn’t comfortable initially, it’s fine to skip it and…

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Salon.com publishes chapter on Moshe Feldenkrais and his method from new book by Norman Doidge, M.D., The Brain’s Way of Healing

January 16, 2015

[Update: added a link to an excellent Brain Science Podcast interview with the book’s author, talking about this new book.] Lots of excitement these days among Feldenkrais students and practitioners: a new mainstream neuroscience book by a respected physician and professor devotes two of its eight chapters to Moshe Feldenkrais and the Feldenkrais Method. I’d like to introduce it to…

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