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  • Christine Barrington on Free While Constrained: Quiet Head, Twisting Spine (Patrons)

    I have been working to unravel some plantar fasciitis and this lesson was revelatory. I could sense how tensed and contracted the muscles were in my left upper shoulder, and as this area was able to release my left heel was relieved as well. I have learned over the years that all Feldenkrais lessons help whatever I am dealing with, so I just do something consistently and trust. I chose this lesson as it popped up in the "lesson of the day" window. It appears that twisting is a key for dealing with the feet. Who knew!

    April 30, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    Thanks! I don't know about FEFNA yet but I've heard from Feldenkrais Legacy Forum that people are really donating in response to this page, over $300 so far! I hope folks continue to contribute to these great causes!

    April 29, 2025

  • Chrish Kresge on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    Beautiful, Nick! What a virtuoso! Your playing is really impressive - hard to imagine how hard it must have been to give it up. Perhaps you will go back to it some day soon! Thank you so much for including FEFNA (the Feldenkrais Educational Foundation of North America) and its BONNIE RICH HUMISTON FUND as one of the recipients of donations! It means a lot. Warm wishes, Chrish

    April 29, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Freeing the Shoulders by Rolling the Arms (Patrons)

    Picking up the second half later or the next day works pretty well. (After two or three sleeps it's usually better to start over.) When you lie down to continue the lesson, take 3-5 minutes and review what you remember of the first half of the lesson. Just literally play with the components that come to mind. Then resume the audio playback and continue.

    April 28, 2025

  • Liam on Spinal Support and a Powerful Pelvis (35m)

    After a 6 mile hike, this felt so lovely in my mind/body and after I felt taller and more at ease in my lower back. Thank you.

    April 27, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on The Buttocks

    Fantastic! OK, knowing that, I think he should go ahead and work through the Grounding for Liftoff Deep Dive, at least the first two or three boxes. That series is all about precise skeletal support, and if he's grokking that and benefitting from the two lessons he's done then he will probably benefit from diving deeper.

    April 23, 2025

  • matt on The Buttocks

    Thanks, Nick. Matt here again continuing the question about what lessons might be especially useful for a kid who is hypotonic, has collapsed arches, weak stomach muscles. Both this lesson and the one and the one focused on arches has been really helpful.

    April 22, 2025

  • Gene on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    Nick, that’s a really wonderful album. You are so talented. Bravo!

    April 20, 2025

  • judi clinton on Simple Twisting

    This is a good one to open up my sticky space on the back side of the heart leftover from open heart surgeries. I will do this every moring, or parts of it, to get my ribs open and working in the mornings.

    April 19, 2025

  • Rebecca Rogot on Freeing the Shoulders by Rolling the Arms (Patrons)

    I could really feel the internal folding of my sternum. I thought that was very cool. However, in general, can’t seem to get through a whole hour of these lessons. I stopped midway and it helps but I’m wondering what I’m missing. Would it be a good idea to do half and then do the second half later or a different day? Or Does picking up from the second half not really work?

    April 19, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on The Anti-Gravity Lesson

    Great that you stopped when you were ready to. That's always a better choice than pushing through. Have you found all of our short lessons? For many people it's helpful to settle into an ATM practice with study sessions that are less than the usual hour, especially at first. Love what you said about imagination vs your "productive self" - we all need to quiet that aspect of ourselves sometimes! And yes, definitely make sure your mat and head-support situation is comfortable.

    April 17, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on The Hip Joints: Moving Proximal Around Distal

    Welcome to Feldenkrais! This is so wonderful to read - it's why our donors and I do what we do, and I look forward to sharing it with some of them in our upcoming quarterly Patrons Zoom! You are hearing loud and clear our message of being kind to yourself. Kindness - along with honest curiosity about your moment-to-moment experience in the lessons - are the two most powerful agents of change and healing in this work. It's great that you plan to study so much, just remember to rest whenever you feel the urge to rest: in lessons (you can always pause playback), between lessons, and even from routines of doing lessons regularly. As you change and improve you may find that some days you just want to process, not study more. Be sure to work through all of our Getting Oriented talks and lessons.

    April 17, 2025

  • katrin windgassen on Simple Twisting

    Thank you so much for this lesson, which you guide so wonderfully. It is extremely enriching to hear that I don't need to exert myself and that my well-being can guide me in every movement... best regards from good old germany 🙂

    April 17, 2025

  • Trish B U.K. on Lifting Up and Through

    This lesson has been especially beneficial to my ability to heal and mobilise with ease during an episode of chronic sciatic discomfort. Thankyou for your skillfull ability to gently ease the tension away. Amazing!

    April 17, 2025

  • Ruth Jones on The Hip Joints: Moving Proximal Around Distal

    My first Feldenkrais lesson was yesterday on your website. My second was today. I am so grateful for the kindness and allowing with this work. You are a wonderful companion to have through the movements. It brought me such great relief and an almost immediate new perspective. I’ve been a massage therapist for 20 years and I can’t believe I didn’t know about ATM! This changes everything. MY BODY feels whole and soaked every second up. I have been in a deep burnout due to grief and life experiences. I’ve been struggling to find movement that doesn’t deplete me in this time of my life- with a lot of shoulds and guilt mixed in. I can actually do this in the evening and morning without feeling like I abused myself. I have been in too much physical pain to do other forms of movement except walking. I am so grateful. It’s the best kind of intelligence- the kind with heart.

    April 16, 2025

  • Trish B U.K. on Freeing Your Breath and Spine (16m or 37m)

    Just love this movement with gentle enquiry to free the mind, body as a long time yoga instructor who is experiencing challenges in aging especially spinal. Unexpectedly had positive influences on my spiritual well being too. Amazing 😉 ! Thankyou for encouraging my sense of humour too with your kind directions.

    April 15, 2025

  • AM on The Anti-Gravity Lesson

    Well - I’ve been doing FK intermittently for awhile. Doing well on mini one-to-one lessons with My Coach who is a FK teacher. But I’ve been struggling with the online recorded lessons, wondering what I’m doing and not connecting with any learning. This was a really interesting lesson. It was the first time in the online recorded lessons I felt moments of joy or /and connection. However, it was also really hard at points, as I felt in pain just from the lying down. I think the floor is too hard and I didn’t read the instructions carefully about having something to put under my head. I like the idea of imagining the movement even though my productive self wants to get in the way and do the movement! Also, I found after 40 mins that I was quite tired and I decided to stop. Thank you.

    April 13, 2025

  • Frederick Schjang on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    Wow! what beautiful music! i look forward to many hours of enjoyment listening to you play!

    April 12, 2025

  • gertrude schmidt on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    hi nick, what a wonderful idea. I'll try,to donate let me how is i simple donation

    April 12, 2025

  • Donna Koren on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    I don’t know a lot about classical music, just that I know what I like 😊 I LOVE the Rachmaninoff. I downloaded the whole album, to accompany me on my road trip to upcoming Feldenkrais practitioner training in Ann Arbor!, and donated to the Legacy Fund. Thank you for all of the opportunities / connections / gifts that compose this effort.

    April 10, 2025

  • Connie on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    Nick, these recordings and this story are valuable and welcome gifts. What a delight to know you a bit better and to learn in yet another way what transformation is all about. The music is spectacular--be still my heart. Thank you so much for sharing.

    April 10, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    I've always had a hard time expressing why I left music – I just knew I wanted a Feldenkrais life more. Thank you for these new words to help explain! You're right, music may be in my heart, but Feldenkrais is part of my soul! I was on the fence about sharing a photo from these years but you pushed me over the edge. I've added one above in the Russian Romantics notes: me on stage, in a tux, with a grand piano.... I was so enamored with the concert pianist image that I wore my hair like Franz Liszt, the great 19th century pianist!

    April 10, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    Dear Paul, thank you...for everything! Words cannot express. Wonderful and fitting that you made the first comment, since your gorgeous music is on this album!

    April 10, 2025

  • Priscilla on Connecting Shoulders and Hips Part 2

    Thank you, very helpful!

    April 9, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Connecting Shoulders and Hips Part 2

    Thanks for commenting - it's great to give voice to challenges in these lessons! I'm guessing you're talking about the leg movements? They definitely benefit from a smoother surface to help reduce the friction, a smooth mat or blanket or glossier rug (almost no one can lie comfortably on their side on a hardwood floor - I definitely can't!). The other big ingredient is counter-balancing: having done the lesson, I wonder if a second exploration (after a couple days or weeks) where you begin with your learned awareness that the hips roll back when the leg slides forward, and forward when the leg slides back, will help you find a pleasant coordination and much less effort. Explore very minimal movements for as long as you need to. If the range grows, it should grow in pleasure and ease, not by willpower. Reaching a little into the Related Lessons tab: Side Clocks is a smaller, more proximal variant on this lesson. For a very quiet study of the beginnings and ends of movements in this lesson, try The Liminal Lesson (Patrons). It's all about how we organize ourselves internally before action begins. Hope that helps! Don't hesitate to comment again with questions.

    April 9, 2025

  • Priscilla on Connecting Shoulders and Hips Part 2

    I'm envious of everybody else's experiences of this lesson! For me it's fairly challenging. Friction with the floor makes the opening a lot of effort. I'm having a hard time imagining anyway around that except maybe lying on a hardwood floor so that it's slippery (though uncomfortable). I only made it about halfway through the lesson, and although the friction problem disappears, I'm still really puzzled about how it starts to feel effortless. I don't know if I just don't have the right strength for this one or if it's a matter of finding the right coordination. I guess towards the end, maybe I started to have some small feelings of easier moments. I feel like I must be missing some piece of how to engage with the directions.

    April 9, 2025

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

    A very pleasant warm feeling in my back as I'm walking afterwards, feeling much more aware of the back of my body than usual. Neck and head also much lighter and lifted.

    April 9, 2025

  • Kay Sweeney on Legs as Free as a Baby’s

    I just can't believe how I felt when I finished this lesson. i am a 93-year-old woman and I felt like 30 again. I have been having lower back more stiffness than pain, but it is very uncomfortable. At the end of the lesson, it was gone. I am walking around with ease. A great lesson!

    April 8, 2025

  • Jacob Slominski on Anatomy in Action: Scapulas
    (Members & Patrons bonus video)

    Really liked this one. Brought on a little soreness in my right shoulder but feels in a good direction. Today, after doing this lesson last night, I could really feel my scapulas wrapping and sliding around my ribs as I swam in the pool. Aware of more options for moving, rotating, lengthening my arms.

    April 7, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Folding, Foundation, and Feet

    Pardon my slow reply. The self-image is both the things you said: it is our concept, in body/mind/social spheres—and everything else that we are—of who and what we are, and what we can do. Arguably the most important thing Feldenkrais ever said or wrote is simply the first sentence of Awareness Through Movement: "We act in accordance with our self-image." To improve ourselves we must change our self-image, in order to change our behavior.

    April 6, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Easing the Jaw, Neck, and Shoulders

    Can't say from afar about your first question, but for your second, I believe I mean to notice any movements or tensions in the neck and chest that are parasitic or unnecessary to moving the jaw and head. A comfortable sense of wholeness is always a good thing, so your interpretation sounds good (sense it, watch out for tension). For your final question, you might want to check out holding the breath and balancing the breath (look for those phrases) in Breathing with Vitality. Working with the closure of the airway, and "leaning" a slow exhale on consonants, are both nice ways to start on the path you're curious about.

    April 6, 2025

  • matt on Easing the Jaw, Neck, and Shoulders

    Nick, Great lesson as always. or years when in deep meditation (anapanasati) I experience my bottom lip pulling under my upper lip. In today's lesson I realize (or wonder) if this just jaw relaxation)? Another question: when moving jaw and head you suggest to notice movement in the neck and chest (and I find I do feel musculature there moving) then then you say to quiet this...so I am trying to sense it, but then not let it exaggerate or cause tension? Just a little confused by the two instructions: to notice connectivity but then to quiet it). Finally: I imagine there are lessons somewhere that relate even more then way we talk (jaw, tongue) to neck and chest muscles? feels profound just as I notice.

    April 5, 2025

  • Diane on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    WOW! I put my headset on, closed my eyes and felt myself transported to a concert hall where you were on stage, Nick, dressed in a black tuxedo seated at a Grand Piano and simply experienced the music. You are a Maestro- so accomplished! Thank you for sharing your music and the story of how Feldenkrais brought you to a deeper level of yourself. Classical piano May live in your heart but Feldenkrais dwells in your soul.

    April 4, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing (Patrons)

    There’s no set guideline for when to repeat a lesson or move on, besides your active curiosity. If it feels rote to repeat, it’s probably best to do another lesson (check out the Context and Related Lessons tabs above for more breathing lessons, if that’s what you’re curious about). On the other hand, if you loved how you felt and want another chance to explore what led to that state, you can repeat a lesson as often as you like! This particular genre (paradoxical breathing) is probably the type of lesson I’ve done the most of, personally! There are 3-4 versions of it in the breathing Deep Dive. Regarding digestive issues, any lessons that promote space and length through the lower torso are great. This is a good genre for that. You can also explore our pelvic floor lessons, the tanden lessons, and lessons about spinal lengthening or lifting up and through.

    March 31, 2025

  • Michael on Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing (Patrons)

    P.S. I'm trying to address digestive issues.

    March 31, 2025

  • Michael on Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing (Patrons)

    I did this lesson yesterday and it was really terrific. I had an amazing feeling of tension having left my body. I'm wondering what lesson I should do today, or if I should repeat this one. I've done various Feldenkrais breathing lessons in the past, but nothing recently.

    March 31, 2025

  • Karin on Breathing for Liftoff (35m + 25m, Patrons)

    Thanks, Nick. It really enlivens the space and context.

    March 23, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Breathing for Liftoff (35m + 25m, Patrons)

    Not mine. May have come from Feldenkrais himself somewhere but I learned it from Feldenkrais Trainer Richard Corbeil.

    March 23, 2025

  • Karin on Breathing for Liftoff (35m + 25m, Patrons)

    Really interesting experiment when the room breathes in as I breathe out and the room breathes out as I breathe in. I love it. Is this your innovation or does it figure in one of Moshe Feldenkrais' lessons and if so which one? Thank you!

    March 22, 2025

  • Paul on Music on a Mission: Recordings from Another Lifetime

    Dear Nick, These performances are wonderful. I hear all the passion, expression and love that made you so exceptional. I know you bring the same to your Feldenkrais practice.

    March 21, 2025