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  • Sara on Self-Hug, Embracing Our Differences (Patrons) 60m

         This adds beautifully to my exploration of the imbalance of my neck vertebrae (causing clicking when turning right). The hug variations discourage me from overworking, slowing things down so that I can anticipate the clicks and learn soften, do less.

    January 9, 2026

  • Sara on Anatomy in Action: Scapulas
    (58m Members & Patrons bonus video)

         I'd enjoy that! Thank you for your creative and proactive way, making this resource quite wonderful.

    January 7, 2026

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Anatomy in Action: Where Are Your Hip Joints, Exactly?
    (61m Members & Patrons bonus video)

         "You can get your needs met in many different ways!" is a fabulous one-liner about Feldenkrais! We are such a complex system, but every input shifts the whole being. You're far beyond this, but it's worth noting for others who read our comments: looking for lessons that "target" the hurting part is one of the most common mistakes Feldenkrais newcomers make. Each lesson invites our whole self into more detailed sensation, imagination, and action. So often the solutions are far from our struggles.

    January 7, 2026

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Anatomy in Action: Scapulas
    (58m Members & Patrons bonus video)

         I like this step too. Very useful for noticing details and changes. I didn't invent it, but I've only very rarely encountered it in ATM study. I'll see if I can find other meaningful places for it in upcoming lessons!

    January 7, 2026

  • M on Winter 1 In-Person Class: Jan 14 – Feb 11

         HOORAY!

    January 5, 2026

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking (Patrons) 42m

         Yes, the lesson called Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Lengthen and Lighten a Leg (Patrons) is the best follow-up. It follows closely after this lesson in our Action Heroes course.

    December 31, 2025

  • Sheila on Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking (Patrons) 42m

         Oh how I just LOVED that! Thank you so much. I think it might free me up for a gentle jog in the morning. Happy New Year!

    December 31, 2025

  • Cavin Graves on The Buttocks 59m

         omg alphons!

    December 30, 2025

  • MARIBETH BRAINERD on Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking (Patrons) 42m

         Is there a "next lesson" 2.0 available for this?

    December 30, 2025

  • Sara on Anatomy in Action: Scapulas
    (58m Members & Patrons bonus video)

         I don't think I have ever explored rolling the head up to one side and then down to the other while lying on the back and feeling the articulation with spine and shoulder blades. Great sense of freedom by the end.

    December 30, 2025

  • Ellen on Anatomy in Action: Scapulas
    (58m Members & Patrons bonus video)

         Lovely lesson. My biggest challenge is to do less so I can feel more. The cueing really helped in this lesson. I’m going to take these shoulders, scapulas, ribs, neck (all of me, actually!) for a walk now and see how they move and how I feel. Thanks for another great lesson, Nick.

    December 30, 2025

  • Joan Oliver Goldsmith on Essence for “Experts”: Your Navigational Sternum and Pelvis (Patrons) 34m

         Very rich practice. I got totally confused towards the end and had to take a break. But that’s OK. Thanks.

    December 29, 2025

  • Sara on Connecting the Legs and Chest (Patrons) 62m

         The slight discomfort I'd been feeling in my left hip/leg has been completely relieved by this lesson. A strange and wonderful sense of being a skeleton inside a cushioned coat of flesh also!

    December 28, 2025

  • Chris Sigurdson on Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking (Patrons) 42m

         brilliant and subtle. Need to repeat. Have had lots of pain on R iliac crest. think this will help but have to be very small and mindful and keep looking for a sense of lifting almost with my neck so I don't go into lower back extension

    December 26, 2025

  • Ellen on Anatomy in Action: Where Are Your Hip Joints, Exactly?
    (61m Members & Patrons bonus video)

         Great lesson for me too. I am having left scapula and right front shoulder problems right now. This lesson helped them move by not asking me to directly put my attention on them. I will remember this in future lesson choices. You can get your needs met in many different ways!

    December 25, 2025

  • Rachel Kenigsberg on Anatomy in Action: Where Are Your Hip Joints, Exactly?
    (61m Members & Patrons bonus video)

         Thank you for this wonderful lesson. Paced perfectly, it was so effective. I was able to turn more easily and gracefully and best, understand what is happening in my skeleton when walking with my sit bones & pelvis in different positions. Nick, I still remember the first workshop I did with you, possibly in 2009 or earlier, at what was then called FINY. It was on flexibility, or maybe lengthening, mostly done in the prone position. After the lesson we were able (at least I was able) to look up at the ceiling and arch our (my) back(s). It felt amazing. Wish I could do those lessons again! This lesson had resonated in a similar way.

    December 23, 2025

  • Trudy Jacquelin on The Hip Joints: Moving Proximal Around Distal 60m

         Tremendous lesson. My hips, back and general feeling throughout my whole body feels more relaxed. Adding in pillow support allowed me to relax even more deeply. My posture is more lengthened and I don't feel so constricted internally. This wonderful technique never ceases to amaze me. Sometimes I am unsure which session to choose to help my body when dealing with back or hip issues, however it doesn't seem to matter which one it is. It always works a treat and my body is in a far better place than before I started the session. I am som grateful for the ability to do a session anytime, anywhere! What a gift this website is. Thanks so much Nick!

    December 21, 2025

  • Sara on Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Lengthen and Lighten a Leg (Patrons) 59m

         Tangible sense of open connection through my hips and legs that made walking after this session feel wonderful. Thank you for the new dive.

    December 20, 2025

  • Ellen on Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking (Patrons) 42m

         And your diligent and curious work brings all your FP students great joy! See you in the live classes in the new year. I hope you get a delightful break with your family.

    December 18, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Patrons Quarterly, November 2025
    (ATM – Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking)

         My pleasure, and deeply so! The new course reflects 15 months of studying, exploring, teaching, and recording in this vein. I just published it this morning (including three new lessons - have fun!). The email announcing it is going out tomorrow! It brings me joy that you're among the first to know.

    December 18, 2025

  • Ellen on Patrons Quarterly, November 2025
    (ATM – Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking)

         Will do and thanks, Nick.

    December 18, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Patrons Quarterly, November 2025
    (ATM – Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking)

         Now that we've published the permanent audio version of this lesson, PLEASE LEAVE LESSON COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS ON THAT PERMANENT PAGE, not this page. I've copied the comments above over to it.

    December 18, 2025

  • Ellen on Patrons Quarterly, November 2025
    (ATM – Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking)

         Oh, my! I didn't know that Action Heroes was already available. This may well be my deep dive for the foreseeable future! I suspect many of the other folks with low back pain will find these lessons useful and maybe even exciting, even in their quiet-ness! Thanks, Nick.

    December 18, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking (Patrons) 42m

         Copying over some lesson discussion from the original Patrons Quarterly unedited video version of the audio lesson above. Irene Collins on November 21, 2025 at 8:13 pm Hi Nick, I wasn’t able to make Thursday’s meeting but played “Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking” this afternoon. I got into the pose of your last screenshare, the baby resting above, and promptly fell asleep. I guess I needed it, and a very relaxing position. The subtle movements of the pubic bone using the hip flexors has a very soft feel with no extra muscular engagement. Will play this lesson again soon. Thank you for this lesson. Irene shan shnookal on November 26, 2025 at 6:36 am Ah, it took me three sessions to complete the lesson, as there was so much for me to explore/(re) find/ and let GO! I found that after the smallest movements, there were many bits of me that found it hard to let go, to get back to neutral. I suspect that’s related to my habitual over-use of my lower back extensors, as well as holding on in so many other places… But i’ve got the glimmerings of a much easier way of “being”, and look forward to doing the lesson again, and consolidating some new possibilities. Nick Strauss-Klein on November 26, 2025 at 9:21 am “Glimmerings” of ease are a perfect and natural part of the learning process. Indeed, keep exploring! Also check out my new “Action Heroes” Deep Dive when it arrives soon. It has a very clear sequence of lessons pointing toward this learning. Christine Barrington on November 28, 2025 at 5:47 pm I missed the live session, but circled around to this event the day after Thanksgiving. After standing and washing so many dishes for the holiday, my psoas was happy for the break–and the healing. Thanks so much! Ellen on December 18, 2025 at 12:13 pm This might be (again) one of my favourite lessons! The idea of moving the pubic bone down completely frees my low back muscles from firing like crazy. I just took the lesson into a 45 minute walk and returned with NO low back pain. Thanks so much for this whole set of lessons, Nick. And the way you cue these lessons is particularly brilliant. Nick Strauss-Klein on December 18, 2025 at 1:08 pm Fabulous! As I’ve said in class, I’ve thought of you often as I’ve developed these lessons, considering our related lower back injuries. I have the same kind of response to these lessons: they leave me pain free and empowered to move and exercise more! This is why there are now more than 10 lessons at The FP that focus on or incorporate the Long Belly, Strong Back gestures! You can find them all in the newly published Action Heroes course: all nine in the red box, plus lessons 3b and 3d! Ellen on December 18, 2025 at 1:19 pm Oh, my! I didn’t know that Action Heroes was already available. This may well be my deep dive for the foreseeable future! I suspect many of the other folks with low back pain will find these lessons useful and maybe even exciting, even in their quiet-ness! Thanks, Nick. Nick Strauss-Klein on December 18, 2025 at 1:26 pm My pleasure, and deeply so! The new course reflects 15 months of studying, exploring, teaching, and recording in this vein. I just published it this morning (including three new lessons – have fun!). The email announcing it is going out tomorrow! It brings me joy that you’re among the first to know.

    December 18, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Patrons Quarterly, November 2025
    (ATM – Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking)

         Fabulous! As I've said in class, I've thought of you often as I've developed these lessons, considering our related lower back injuries. I have the same kind of response to these lessons: they leave me pain free and empowered to move and exercise more! This is why there are now more than 10 lessons at The FP that focus on or incorporate the Long Belly, Strong Back gestures! You can find them all in the newly published Action Heroes course: all 9 in the red box, plus lessons 3b and 3d!

    December 18, 2025

  • Ellen on Patrons Quarterly, November 2025
    (ATM – Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Improve Walking)

         This might be (again) one of my favourite lessons! The idea of moving the pubic bone down completely frees my low back muscles from firing like crazy. I just took the lesson into a 45 minute walk and returned with NO low back pain. Thanks so much for this whole set of lessons, Nick. And the way you cue these lessons is particularly brilliant.

    December 18, 2025

  • Gabrielle Smith on Breathing for Liftoff (35m + 25m, Patrons) 60m

         feels life-changing

    December 17, 2025

  • Brigette on Buttocks Organizing the Spine (Patrons) 57m

         I had an amazing experience with this lesson today. I tried this lesson a while back, and it was very challenging for me. It was still challenging however I felt as if I was feeling my legs for the very first time it felt so good and nourishing. They felt so light lifting. I started the lesson feeling some lower back clenching in my sacrum, and as I was doing this, I kind of felt like I was flossing a nerve lifting the opposite shoulder and then having the opposite leg left, I could feel the relief happening in real time. Will definitely be revisiting this lesson again. I know that my Gluth muscles don’t engage as well as I would like when I walk. And I happen to have a rather small butt as a result of that, and I suppose sitting in a chair all day. During this lesson though, I felt like I got some sense of having a much more engaged, and more significant gluteal system.

    December 15, 2025

  • Chris on Reaching Distinctions: Flexion or Extension? (Patrons) 58m

         Perfect. Thanks. For the info and the great lessons.

    December 15, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Reaching Distinctions: Flexion or Extension? (Patrons) 58m

         Amen to distributing functions (like arching) throughout our whole spines and selves! It is always a helpful strategy. Your question about what is extension and what is flexion is great! I think you mean "contraction" when you're talking about flexing the muscles of your lower back, which are extensor muscles. Here's one way to think about it. Since muscles can only contract and decontract, I think of flexion in terms of folding and unfolding the body, and extension in terms of muscles that support or lift the body, and can also rest from that. It's a slightly more sophisticated and functional way to think about the constant balancing our brains are doing between our flexors and extensors, instead of the more simplistic agonist/antagonist model of flexion and extension.

    December 15, 2025

  • Gabrielle Smith on Simple Twisting 62m

         Yum 🤤🤤🤤

    December 14, 2025

  • Chris Sigurdson on Reaching Distinctions: Flexion or Extension? (Patrons) 58m

         So valuable. I can get back pain ( iliac crest area) from unintentionally "hyperextending" my back when doing some strengthening exercises (the term hyperextending my back is now confusing to me because it is really more of a contraction of my lower back muscles and isn't that really a kind of flexion?!)... anyway distributing that arch to include my upper back takes the pressure off my lower back. This helped me visualize that better-- how to arch back in a healthier way

    December 13, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Reaching Distinctions: Flexion or Extension? (Patrons) 58m

         Fantastic! You may have seen in the Curiosities tab above that another person reported a related kind of change with "saying yes to flexion." It's one of the secrets of Feldenkrais: we're not afraid of our patterns. We look into them deeply, and through sensitivity, kindness, and patient process we learn more control, and the ability to find other options of organization and ways of being.

    December 11, 2025

  • E J on Reaching Distinctions: Flexion or Extension? (Patrons) 58m

         This lesson was transformational for me - thank you. I have Ehlers Danlos and in an effort to find stability my ribs and thorax have been stuck in a state of braced flexion whenever I am vertical. At times the flexion can be so severe it can be hard to take a full breath. No matter how much ‘breathwork’ I try, it only seems to exacerbate it. But by leaning into the coordinated flexion and exhalation here, it allowed a subsequent passive expansion and softening of the ribs I haven’t felt in about 15 years. It really did unlock something deep in my brain! Thank you.

    December 11, 2025

  • Lindsay Flower on Connecting Arms and Legs, Hinges at Feet and Knees 65m

         This lesson is wonderful. Particularly found interesting how I felt heavier and lighter at the end somehow!

    December 6, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Improving Rotation, Embracing Our Differences (Patrons) 58m

         Excellent! Yes, we tend to hold so much tightness and stress in our thoracic area that improved mobility there is an amazing help for all function!

    December 4, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on The Tongue and the Spine (Patrons) 60m

         I can't say with any certainty. If the lesson is done gently, and all feelings of stretch or strain are avoided, it may help with symptoms related to that, and it won't cause harm. The lesson integrates movements of the neck and spine with movements of the mouth and tongue.

    December 4, 2025

  • Cavin Graves on The Tongue and the Spine (Patrons) 60m

         does this address a posterior tongue tie? thank you

    December 3, 2025

  • Christine Barrington on Improving Rotation, Embracing Our Differences (Patrons) 58m

         After "forgetting" to do Feldenkrais for a while, I have done one lesson per day four days in a row--all of them rotation lessons, because I have had issues with plantar fasciitis and frozen shoulders over the years. I know I need to pay attend to rotation. I was shocked to see how sore my intercostal and back muscles were while doing these movements. Of course, I went small and subtle, but still--it amazed me. I didn't know I was that sore. More shocking (in the best way) has been to see how much better I have been feeling. Working out at the gym I noticed I could exert more power, and walking up the stairs I feel less "tired." I always feel so grateful for this work when I remember to do it. Thank you for these exquisite lessons!

    December 3, 2025

  • Nick Strauss-Klein on Long Belly, Strong Back: Short Version 38m

         I agree wholeheartedly: "These lessons become an antidote to a lifetime of restricting movement". I can't get enough of Long Belly, Strong Back kinds of study. Our new "Action Heroes" Deep Dive that lays out a path through all the related lessons is coming very soon!

    December 3, 2025