Little Dips
“I finally ‘get’ what it is all about” – Listener Letter and Lesson Recommendations
This Little Dip is a letter from a listener describing a maturing Feldenkrais practice – and how it’s helping her relationships with herself and others. We’ve never received as many email responses to a newsletter as readers sent after this one!
On Attention: Feldenkrais, Spatial Self-Imaging, and the Open Focus Work of Dr. Les Fehmi
In this Little Dip Nick reflects on integrating his sabbatical studies on the nature of attention into his Feldenkrais teaching. Includes four Feldenkrais lessons that work with attention and spatial self-imaging in interesting ways. One is directly influenced by Dr. Les Fehmi’s work.
A Guide to Our “Arms Like a Skeleton” Lessons
This Little Dip differentiates The FP’s handful of versions of “Arms Like a Skeleton,” a Feldenkrais lesson genre about reaching into the world.
Guest Post: David Zemach-Bersin on Chronic Pain + Nick on Injury and Recovery
In this Little Dip Nick’s Feldenkrais Trainer speaks on how Feldenkrais addresses chronic pain. Plus, Nick reflects on recovering from an injury and a month of pain, and shares lessons that helped him heal.
Listener Interview: Reflections on Doing ALL Our Lessons + Nick’s Favorite Workshop
In this Little Dip Nick reflects on contemplative practices and offers uplifting Feldenkrais lessons. A Patron describes the effects of deep study at The FP: “For me Feldenkrais is about building self-knowledge, self-esteem, self-trust, and self-empowerment.”
Guest Post: Jen Strauss-Klein Compares Feldenkrais and an Ancient Tradition
In this Little Dip Nick’s wife, a clergy person, describes their sabbatical study of a 1,000-year-old ethical tradition, touching on broader applications of the Feldenkrais Method than the ones we think of most often.
Make Your Own Feldenkrais “Sabbatical”: Why and How
This Little Dip includes inspiration from Felden-fans who report on the effects of deep study, and two recommended short sequences of lessons to get you started.
Six Lessons for Anxiety
In this Little Dip of discussion and lessons you’ll learn why Feldenkrais lessons have a profound calming effect on an anxious mind, and experience this phenomenon for yourself. The Feldenkrais learning process typically reduces anxiety and calms the mental landscape faster and more reliably than “working on” our thoughts and feelings directly.
What Action Is Good? Feldenkrais’s Answer
This Little Dip includes a talk and lessons. We explore Moshe Feldenkrais’s answer to his titular question for lesson #2 in his book Awareness Through Movement. His answer is multi-faceted, fascinating, and worth studying intellectually and experientially.
“Use your glutes!” they say. But how?
In this Little Dip of discussion and lessons we get to know the buttocks. Simply flexing them more vigorously doesn’t always help the movement and postural problems experts say it should. Between the size and power of the buttocks, and our cultural-social-sexual issues around them, it’s almost like we stereotype them as big dumb engines for the body…at best. At worst we actively ignore them, or even feel ashamed of them.