Lessons & Learning Blog
On Freedom…and Aging
A “little dip” of discussion and lessons. In Feldenkrais study we discover that we can question our experience, and liberate ourselves from our own compulsive behaviors. Through self-education we learn how to escape habits that cause suffering in us, and in those around us. And we learn to adapt in a healthy, graceful way to what aging is doing to us.
Pain, Pleasure, and Feldenkrais: FP Weekly Class Replays
The FP Weekly Class Pain, Pleasure, and Feldenkrais: Navigating the space between stimulus and response Nick Strauss-Klein led all dates This course has ended, but you can… Order Replays Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our…
New Deep Dive for the Shoulders, Ribs, and Sternum
It’s our birthday! The Feldenkrais Project website is four years old on March 5, 2023, and it’s hard to believe how much it’s grown. To celebrate I’ve created a new Deep Dive on a personal favorite topic. I’m calling it Shoulder Cloak, Rib Basket, Sliding Sternum. Surprised by the softness of those images? Our culture…
Deep Dive: Shoulder Cloak, Rib Basket, Sliding Sternum
Escape your shoulder “girdle” and rib “cage.” Let go of pain, tension, anxiety, and ideas that limit you.
Lengthen and Strengthen Your Spine: FP Weekly Class Replays
The FP Weekly Class Lengthen and Strengthen Your Spine Tuesdays, February 7 – March 28 Nick Strauss-Klein taught 2/7-3/21. Guest teacher Deborah Bowes led March 28 in a special lesson done in standing! Pay-what-you-can pricing Order Replays This feeling of the spine lengthening accompanies most actions of the body when they are properly carried out….
New Free Lesson: Simple Self-Hug
Here’s a little something for the holidays: give yourself a hug with our help! We’ve just added Simple Self-Hug. This half-hour lesson is perfect for when you need a tension-melting Feldenkrais tuneup for your shoulders, neck, and chest! You can follow that link or find it in Getting Oriented, our collection of short free lessons…
By reply or live, check out “Improving sitting on the floor” with Deborah Bowes on December 27
Just one final note for 2022: Deborah Bowes, who is a Feldenkrais Trainer (teacher of teachers) and Physical Therapist, returns to lead The Feldenkrais Project’s weekly class on Tuesday morning 12/27 at 9:30 Central time. Study live or enjoy the lesson replay anytime. As a grandmother, Deborah enjoys playing on the floor with little kids….
New Deep Dive: Better Balance
We’ve just added another Deep Dive, Better Balance, featuring many of Nick’s 2022 teachings about balance, and some older lessons, too. Check it out here! To read our newsletter about it, and learn about our temporary “peek at Patron perks” (additional free lesson in the Deep Dive) from Dec 8-18, 2022, click here.
Deep Dive: Better Balance
Since we do everything in gravity, learning to balance more skillfully improves every human function – and makes us safer, too!
Records of The FP Weekly Class’s charitable giving
Newest info from Nick is below in the comments section below, where you’re also welcome to submit charities for us to consider. Our class charitable giving continues each month, but on 12/6/22 I cut-and-pasted our old records, from its original home on our FP Weekly Class page. It goes back to March of 2020! There’s…