Since Nick Strauss-Klein launched this collection of donor-supported Feldenkrais lessons in 2015, an amazing and responsive online community has bloomed around the world. In 2018 and 2019 more than 150 people stepped up with financial, technical, and creative support to help build this new site. Thank you, from Nick and all our listeners!
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The primary reason I’m attracted to Feldenkrais practice is its fascinating influence on the quality of my thinking. As I understand it, Feldenkrais movement stimulates the brain’s motor cortex, which is millimeters away from the brain’s strata that deals with associative processes. The motor cortex stimulation thus radiates into the associative layers. The result is describable as a loosening of the feelings and thoughts that have been patterned into my self image. The benefit to me is a marked increase in my ability to better sense the environment and make more intuitive connections among those observations. I find this impact remarkable and value it greatly. #AwarenessThroughMovement 🙂
Thanks for sharing some neurobiology with everyone! If you haven’t seen it yet, check out my blog post Embracing Our Differences for a brief discussion of some seemingly non-anatomical effects of Feldenkrais study.
Usually in lessons, you ask us to begin with the “easy” side, and them most of the work is done with that side. For example, in the “Driving & Dynamic Sitting”, most of the time (10-20 min??) is spent on the easy arm, and then barely 2 minutes on the other arm. I can’t understand how this helps. Generally the reason given is that the other side “learns” from the adept side. Yes, I believe such learning happens–, but only when the practice time is reversed. That is, if I as a rightxhanded person, want to play tennis with my left hand, I hit the ball with my right arm, as a model, and then spend most of my time working my left arm. I don’t spend 20 minutes hitting balls with my right arm, 2 minutes with the left, and expect results. Am I wrong? It is said Feldenkrais “rewires neural circuits”. It seems to me the easy side is already wired fine, plus it has the muscles needed. It’s the off-side that needs rewiring AND muscle development. Sometimes in the lesson you will say, “ok, now you can do it all with the other side.”. But by that time my focus is waning and I have no more time (also, in the winter, I get cold, there on the floor). It seems to me long practice time for the easy side is minimally productive, where it could be hugely beneficial fir the off-side What am I missing here? Thanks!
Hi Nick! Inhave another question: Somewhere here have you written a comment on the relative merits of doing the same lesson repeatedly or doing a new lesson every day? I guess there is a sweet spot between repetition and variety. Also I guess there may be some criteria for judging. Is progress in Feldenkrais usually gradual or more like punctuated equilibrium in evolution, where you suddenly jump to a new understanding? Thanks!