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You’ll learn about

  • How compassionate inquiry into our non-conceptual present experience helps us shed both anxiety and parts of our “suit of armor” that are no longer needed
  • How “getting right with gravity” literally empowers our musculature
  • Benefits of focusing on “lifting up and through” of the ground’s support rather than the “down and in” of gravity
  • Specific Feldenkrais study strategies to maximize self empowerment benefits in any lesson.

This talk is useful on its own, but see the Context and Related Lessons tabs for Feldenkrais lessons designed to illustrate these topics.

My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behavior so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.

– Moshe Feldenkrais

This free talk appears in our Miscellaneous Lessons collection.

It was recorded on Feb 27, 2024 as part of Nick’s Self Empowerment Workshop (Members & Patrons bonus video), which includes the ATM lessons referenced in the talk.

This workshop is available to all donors (for as little as $3) and is highly recommended.

Lifting Up and Through (free) is less focused on the details of the talk but includes related learning.

The workshop lessons linked in the Context tab are the most closely related, but the following lessons are great for more review of the ideas discussed in the talk.

This Self Empowerment Workshop and the four lessons linked above can all be found in our Grounding for Liftoff course. A Spiral of Length and Power (Patrons) appears later in the course but can be studied any time as another follow-up.

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3 Comments

  1. Sarah Kerr on June 22, 2025 at 9:50 am

    I really appreciated the clarity of your explanation here, but I’m not sure what lessons you are talking about.

    You mention the “first” lesson, about spiraling up and out from your heels, and then the “second” one about integrating a movement of feet and ankles.

    Do you have these lessons organized in order on the site?

    Thanks very much,
    Sarah

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    • Nick Strauss-Klein on June 22, 2025 at 11:47 am

      Yes, please take a look at the Context tab above for all that info. We recommend always clicking through the lesson notes tabs under every audio player on our site.

      This talk is duplicated here among our freely offered lessons to make sure everyone can find it easily, since it has standalone value outside of the donors-only workshop in which it was recorded.

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  2. Sarah on June 22, 2025 at 12:16 pm

    Thanks very much!

    Reply

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