These audio lessons are sourced directly from Moshe Feldenkrais's 1972 book, Awareness Through Movement. He lays out his method in part 1 of the book, then illustrates his ideas with the 12 lessons of part 2, which he calls "Doing to Understand."
Lesson #2 is a free talk which can serve as an introduction to the series.
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. I sometimes take small liberties to make them more accessible and to follow the students I was watching.
This collection is for experienced Felden-fans. For a variety of reasons many of these lessons are more challenging than most other lessons on our website.
I especially recommend this collection to Feldenkrais professionals, trainees, and other movement professionals and super-movers.
There's great value in to studying Feldenkrais's text alongside my recorded interpretations. Here's my brief study guide, including a link to buy the book on Amazon.
- Nick Strauss-Klein
Each lesson can be studied on its own, or you can work your way through all of them, perhaps in tandem with reading the book.
Descriptions of each lesson give you a sense of its aim, though everyone's learning process is unique and you may find other benefits.
What Is Good Posture? (Patrons)
Talk: What Action Is Good?
Spatial Relationships as a Means to Coordinated Action (Patrons)
The Movement of the Eyes Organizes the Movement of the Body (Patrons)
After you complete the collection, returning to lessons you've already done will yield new insights. It can be very surprising to new Feldenkrais students how lessons you "know" are a different, valuable experience on subsequent explorations.
You might also want to browse our Learning Guides for ideas to help bridge your Feldenkrais learning into everyday life.
Hi Nick,
I’m in training in Santa Fe with Diana Razumny. I would be very interested in your teaching of Moshe’s number 8, perfecting the self image. Are you going to post it soon?
I have shared your website with many people and have enjoyed it and your teaching for several years. I live in a rural area and don’t have access to weekly classes so your site has been extremely helpful!
Thanks so much
Thanks for your request – you can see in the comments below that you started a trend! It’s a longtime in coming, but I have now added the lesson you requested. It’s for Feldenkrais Project Patrons due to the time demands of resuming my old project of studying and recording these more challenging ATM book lessons.
You can read the description of this lesson in our Straight from Class collection, and access it there if ever the time is right to become a Patron!
I’m grateful for your motivating request, and your referrals to The FP!
I’d like to see Number 8 too
Thank you! That’s two votes do get to #8 first whenever I can return to this project. It’s on my list for this year, but…it’s become a very strange year (writing in April, 2020).
I third the motion for #8.
Thank you! It’s definitely on my list. Not sure when, but I think it’ll be the first one I add when I get a chance to continue working on this collection!
Hi Nick, I am going to add my vote for lesson #8 and urge you to make it a priority for 2021. People really need it. Really!
On it! As you can see the groundswell is here, and I’ve been searching for ways to record within the constraints I give myself for the Feldenkrais Project. That is: a live, public teaching. I’ve actually found some new ideas recently for making this one accessible to the public. That said, what do you think about the idea of advertising a special recording session for experienced students/practitioners only?
It is not a lesson I have ever thought of a way to teach to a newcomer, whereas I believe everything so far on our website has had that possibility in mind while teaching, aside from a few marked as “Part 2,” or “optional advanced.”
Nick your teaching style lends itself well to students. I have not studied to become a teacher, but have studied for 20 years. I have worked with two teachers who were taught by Russell Delmam, a Moishe student. They were both excellent. You bring a freshness to your word choices that I find inspires me to continue.
Glad to hear it. Delman has had a big influence on me, but only through one weekend workshop and his recordings, which I think are excellent.