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…
Lifting Up and Through 2: Organizing Your Feet
(Members & Patrons bonus video)
Directly related to Lifting Up and Through 1, but may be explored before or after it. A more detailed teaching of our popular Activating the Arches lesson. There are screen share illustrations and many unique variations, and it’s especially tuned for walking.
Article: Playing with Gravity
The role of conceptual understanding in helping Feldenkrais students overcome faulty images of balance. This article is an expansion of the talks from Nick’s balance workshop.
“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…
Happy Holidays! Special Free Lesson this Month
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…
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,…
Reflection and Lessons: We Evolved for Easy Walking
In this “little dip” of discussion and lessons we explore how we evolved to move our whole self harmoniously, using the suppleness of our chest and torsos, integrated with our legs, to carry us around for miles a day with grace and ease. Our cultural environment makes it hard to claim this birthright.
New FREE Audio Lesson for Posture, Walking, and Running
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…
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…
What Is Good Posture? Feldenkrais’s Answer
In this “little dip” of discussion and lessons we explore Moshe Feldenkrais’s answer to his titular question for lesson #2 in his book Awareness Through Movement. His answer is simple, precise, and probably not what you’d guess.