Lessons & Learning Blog

Another Holiday Gift from The FP: New Free Lesson!
Plus a new lesson for Members and Patrons

Happy Holidays! Here’s another gift for everyone, from The FP: Lifting Up and Through is a brand new addition to our free lesson collection called Better Posture, Walking, and Running.     Linked below, this lesson introduces a more elegant and potent relationship with gravity. Experience the difference between pushing into the ground as you…

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“Saved” and “Favorited” Lessons Feature Coming Soon!
[Updated 2023 Roadmap]

DECEMBER 12 UPDATE: We are now building software to enable Members and Patrons to mark lessons as “saved” and “favorite”! Launching early 2024.   This year listener donations have funded a massive round of upgrades for us. As you may know from our vision, our website is a collaborative effort undertaken with all our listeners…

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Happy Holidays! Special Free Lesson this Month

December 26, 2023

Many cultures and religions have traditions that bring a little extra light this time of year. Here in the northern USA we really need it! As the kids and Jen and I begin our Hanukkah celebrations tonight we want to wish you a warm, merry, and peaceful holiday season. I’ve got two holiday treats coming…

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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 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 the movement effortless,…

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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

  “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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