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Patron Treasures

Welcome! Everyone can browse our Patron Treasures below. Click lesson titles for more info.

 

80+ lessons (and counting) for our Patron-level donors.

Many Patron Treasures are part of our Deep Dives. Many are not. Almost all can be studied on their own.

The list below is organized by date. To search, filter, or sort these lessons by duration, use our Search & Filter tool.

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The Feldenkrais Project's 50+ free lessons are a crowd-funded labor of love. If you believe, like we do, that Feldenkrais makes the world a better place, please join the Project as a Patron to support our work and access over 80 Patron Treasures lessons below, plus other Patrons-only lessons. You'll also get full access to our Deep Dive courses.

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New for Patrons

53m

Reaching Reorganized: Everything Everywhere All at Once (Patrons)

The "Arms Like a Skeleton" lesson becomes the framework of an ATM exploration designed to help you
  1. Review your Long Belly, Strong Back learning
  2. Feel the benefits of action generated globally throughout yourself
  3. Experience your ability to improvise Feldenkrais study
  4. Understand what open attention is, and how learning and improvement actually happen
34m

Essence for “Experts”: Your Navigational Sternum and Pelvis (Patrons)

Expand on one of our most popular lessons as you learn to sense your sternum in action, using self-touch and a clarified image of a compass rose. Relax into riddles that integrate your sternum with familiar movements of Your Navigational Pelvis. Enjoy how this new suppleness of your chest improves your neck and spine, the function of your hips, and your relationship with the internal and external world.

All Patron Treasures

53m

Reaching Reorganized: Everything Everywhere All at Once (Patrons)

The “Arms Like a Skeleton” lesson becomes the framework of an ATM exploration designed to help you

  1. Review your Long Belly, Strong Back learning
  2. Feel the benefits of action generated globally throughout yourself
  3. Experience your ability to improvise Feldenkrais study
  4. Understand what open attention is, and how learning and improvement actually happen
Average Challenge   back-lying 
October 30, 2025
 
34m

Essence for “Experts”: Your Navigational Sternum and Pelvis (Patrons)

Expand on one of our most popular lessons as you learn to sense your sternum in action, using self-touch and a clarified image of a compass rose. Relax into riddles that integrate your sternum with familiar movements of Your Navigational Pelvis. Enjoy how this new suppleness of your chest improves your neck and spine, the function of your hips, and your relationship with the internal and external world.

Average Challenge   back-lying 
September 15, 2025
 
59m

Effortless Legs and Hips (Patrons)

“The sensation of effort is the subjective feeling of wasted movement,” wrote Moshe Feldenkrais, admitting that at first this idea sounds “utterly preposterous”. This side-lying lesson probes his assertion by developing large movements of one foot sweeping along the floor while making precise distinctions between necessary muscular contractions and “effort.” If you can resist trying hard, you’ll find an esthetically pleasing dance of your whole self with benefits for uprightness, expansiveness, gait, and perhaps even the way you meet difficulty in regular life. See the Curiosities tab for more info.

Average Challenge   side-lying 
August 15, 2025
 
58m

Pelvis Lifting and Rotating on Its Axis, Part 2 (Patrons)

After a visual demonstration (in the Curiosities tab) and a review of rolling vs. rotating, you’ll dive deeper into more intricate and athletic variations of lifting the pelvis and rotating it on its axis, all toward softening your thoracic and reorganizing your torso and hips. As always, ability develops through improved awareness, proper distribution of effort, breathing and suppleness, and the precise use of the support surface—never strain.

More Challenging  back-lying 
July 1, 2025
 
60m

Pelvis Lifting and Rotating on Its Axis, Part 1 (Patrons)

Unlock profound ease for your chest, spine, and hips in this challenging and rewarding Moshe Feldenkrais original. To develop an image for the unusual movements of your pelvis you’ll first get to know the difference between rolling and rotating your head. Framed by brief reference movements in floor- or chair-seated as spatial presence is explored.

More Challenging  back-lying 
June 30, 2025
 
60m

Sliding the Sternum, Twisting with the Miracle of “Just What’s Comfortable” (Patrons)

This alternate teaching of Sliding the Sternum takes the same Moshe Feldenkrais source lesson in different directions. Spatial awareness, developmental connections, integrating the arms, the length of the axis, and spiraling up and away from the legs are all emphasized in movements exploring how the sternum supports twisting with length.

Average Challenge   side-lying 
May 22, 2025
 
33m

Essence for “Experts”: Flexors and Extensors from the Hips and Waist (Patrons)

A distillation of Moshe Feldenkrais’s classic Coordinating the Flexors and Extensors lesson. Great for review and for finding a more specific understanding of the role of the hip joints and waistline muscles as conductors of turning actions. When we listen deeply to Moshe and ourselves, we learn that tipping triangle arms and crossed legs further and further is not the point of this famous lesson. The most profound benefits for spinal health, posture, and gait are hidden in the details.

Average Challenge   back-lying 
April 30, 2025
 
60m

Curiosity, Not Mastery: Three Dimensional Shoulder and Hip Circles (Patrons)

Familiar ATM explorations are cast in a new light as we discover how the torso interacts with the ground and reshapes itself three dimensionally to generate action in faraway parts of the body. Later, a few playfully elaborate variations humble us all, but the goal is curiosity, not mastery. Notice how much change takes place, how much more ease and control is created, when “failure” is lighthearted. Framed with brief explorations of the diagonal relationships of walking.

Average Challenge   back-lying  side-lying 
March 19, 2025
 
31m

Essence for “Experts”: Whole Body Arms (Patrons)

A review version of this lesson. Organize action from your head, spine, and tail, and refresh their functional relationships with your shoulders. Then it’s time for the arms: twist, roll, reach, and circle them while sustaining whole body awareness.

Average Challenge   side-lying 
February 12, 2025
 
63m

Long Belly, Strong Back: Expanded Workshop Version (Patrons)

A 3-minute talk introduces the workshop. Then, after a few explorations in standing, you’ll lie down and dive into quiet, precise movements of your pubic bone, sternum, scapulas, and sitbones designed to organize your spine and hips for powerful action and easier uprightness. Late in the lesson, juxtapose your new skills with common movement habits that diminish our abilities and confidence: do you press the ground or lift up and through? Are your hips in front of the action or behind it? The more clearly you sense these differences in all that you do, the better life gets.

Average Challenge   back-lying  standing 
January 1, 2025
 
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Deep Dives with Patron Treasures

To enjoy some of our Patron Treasures in larger learning contexts, try our Deep Dives, where we integrate Patrons-only content with other Feldenkrais Project lessons in specialized study sequences. Patrons have full access.

See Our Deep Dives

More Collections Just for Patrons

12 Lessons from Awareness Through Movement

Developed from Moshe Feldenkrais’s 1972 book, written to introduce his method to the world.

Legacy and Alternate Lessons

Some listeners prefer the classics. When a lesson is replaced or updated the original goes here.

8 Comments

  1. Nick Strauss-Klein on March 5, 2019 at 3:57 pm

    As you explore our Patron Treasures please leave comments and questions on the lesson pages – they build our community, improve our visibility on the web, and refine my teaching and which lessons I choose to add.

    You can also leave a comment right here to request lessons or topics of study.

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  2. Margit on March 24, 2019 at 4:05 pm

    I like lessons with a rolling part in them, they are so much fun! This lesson maked me especially aware of my Sternum and that I usually direct it “backwords”. I will pay attention to a more balanced direction (in the mid of backwards and forwards) of my Sternum after doing this lesson. Thank you Nick for sharing your Knowledge with us.

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  3. jean kirk on April 4, 2021 at 5:05 pm

    Rib basket and shoulder cloak lesson is great. Taught me a lot about being upright.

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  4. Helina Karvak on June 18, 2022 at 7:43 am

    Hi! I’m interested in voice as topic of study 🙂

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    • Nick Strauss-Klein on June 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm

      That’s great – me too! My wife is a singer and I’ve wanted for years to develop my own ease in speaking. Lessons for the voice are on the back burner right now, but I think I’ll get to it!

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  5. Trudy J on May 2, 2024 at 3:56 am

    Hi Nick
    What pathway would you go down to help correct a scoliosis of the spine. I am unsure where to start. Thanks so much.
    Cheers Trudy

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    • Nick Strauss-Klein on May 2, 2024 at 10:12 am

      Most scoliosis is caused by patterns of action, movement habits we’ve unconsciously developed over the years that shorten our spines unnecessarily in asymmetrical ways. Lessons that bring awareness to your integrated use of your whole spine in your actions are great. Admittedly, this is basically all Feldenkrais lessons! A few ideas to try to answer your question more specifically:

      • – Try our Little Dip called Spinal Support
      • – Search our lessons for “spine” and follow your curiosity. You can filter by clicking “show advanced options,” or uncheck the “courses and video lessons” option if you just want to see specific lessons.
      • – Collections #2 and #4 are also really relevant.
      • – The Anti-Gravity Lesson (the finale of collection #2) can be very useful for some folks for scoliosis, especially if they’ve done a lot of Feldenkrais lessons like the ones above prior. Go very small and slow. You’re looking for the sense the that up-your-mat forces might naturally align your vertebrae, like how pushing a line of slightly disordered dominoes laying flat on a table can “straighten them out,” bringing their edges into full contact, if done with patience and precision.
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      • Trudy J on May 2, 2024 at 1:15 pm

        Fantastic response Nick. It’s funny. Whilst I waited for a response I I intuitivley just headed to start on collection #2 as I felt sure lessons for the spine would help but I am glad I asked anyway because I love your response. Thanks again!

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