Has it ever happened to you that, after Feldenkrais class, problems you were chewing on seem more solvable? You have fresh inspiration about a creative project? Or maybe you gain new insight about your technique? There’s something about slowing down
Awareness Through Movement : Feldenkrais Classes for 2025
Why Awareness Through Movement? “When you know what you’re doing, you can choose to do something else,” Moshe Feldenkrais famously said many times and in many ways. We develop patterns during our lifetime that define our movements from the smallest
Listening as Sensing: How Awareness Through Movement is Different from Exercise
Listen, let’s make an important distinction Many kinds of movement training distinguish themselves by the kinds of exercises that constitute their programs. One might focus on strength, another on flexibility; yet another might claim to improve both. Teachers of Feldenkrais
Lodestones of Sensation: Feldenkrais in the Yoga Classroom
(Lodestones of Sensation: Feldenkrais ® in the Yoga Classroom was originally published in May, 2012. I offer it here as part of a series of favorites pieces I am updating for my new website. For another article on Feldenkrais in
Pleasure and the Mistake of Chronic Pain
What do you mean by pleasure? I’ve been teaching my students to move toward pleasure in their yoga and Feldenkrais® practices for many years. I find it a little awkward to use the word “pleasure”, with its connotations of sex
Principles that Guide my Teaching
You, my student, are self-governing. My job is to guide you to deepen your awareness of yourself and help you to improve your ability to self-govern. I can’t create experience for you. I can only participate in creating the environment
The Pelvis as Foundation: A Feldenkrais Mini-Lesson
The Pelvis as Foundation For better or for worse, we do a lot of sitting. We sit for leisure and for work, alone and with company, on chairs, sofas, car seats, bike seats, rocks, logs, yoga blocks and earth. In
No Wrong Movement
Have you ever heard me in say class, “There is NO WRONG MOVEMENT”? What does that mean? What if that were really true? Without being told what is the “right” movement, how would you know how to move? How would
Inside/Outside: A Dance and Feldenkrais Imaginatorium
Inside/Outside: A Dance and Feldenkrais Imaginatorium Saturday, September 29 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. During this day-long workshop and retreat, we will weave together many creative practices to enrich our sensory experience and unfetter our imagination. As the process unfolds,
What Participants Say About the Feldenkrais Immersion
ON THE IMMERSION PROCESS “This immersion is a gift. What a juicy opportunity to explore my own body, its edges and insides, its tendencies and capacity. I’ve come away with a deeper sense of curiousity, amplified attention, and lasting functional tools. “