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Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method

Bonnie Kissam — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:30:25 +0100

Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method
Feldenkrais practitioners credit the method with improving self-image, flexibility, coordination, range of motion and overall physical and mental functioning. By increasing awareness of the body’s mechanics, students can discard previous “bad habits” and find more comfortable ways to move, sit and stand. Further, students often find themselves feeling relaxed and peaceful after a session.

The Feldenkrais Method by Feldenkrais in Sarasota

Bonnie Kissam — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:16:34 +0100

The Feldenkrais Method®, developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., uses a systems approach to looking at movement. Using specific movement lessons performed with attention and intention, people of all ages -- from young children to senior citizens, discover how to unlearn patterns that interfere with their ability to move efficiently and easily, and to learn new ways of acting that encourage fluid, effortless action.

A focus of attention and self-awareness while performing s...

Moving Skeletally, Moving from your Core

Bonnie Kissam — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:14:46 +0100

In preparing my workshop “Moving from Your Core”, using concepts from The Feldenkrais® Method, it was interesting for me to read a colleague's description of his movements skating.

“I went skating the other day and thought about my arms as we had been discussing. But something else happened altogether. I spent the entire time sensing my core, realizing how much I was in the habit of sk...

The Feldenkrais Method® improves more than movement.

Bonnie Kissam — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:20:23 +0100

New video – Watch testimonials of runners, singers, mothers of young children and workers who sit all day. Practitioners see movement patterns housed in your brain and work to engage your nervous system to improve your lower back, shoulder or hip, ability to stand with better balance. - from Health Watch NYC

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Muscles transmit forces through the bones

Bonnie Kissam — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:28:38 +0100

“My work as a physical therapist and Feldenkrais® Practitioner gives me daily opportunities to … see the way a particular person’s human form works together. ... I use my understanding of anatomy, kinesiology and neuroscience to help them find a way to move more efficiently and effectively.

It is strange to me how my approach to healing is different or confusing to many people. They see themselves as a problematic knee, elbow, shoulder or foot, unrelated to...

Movement/contraints to improve function in children

Bonnie Kissam — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:23:05 +0100

In 1985 I remember working with the two year old daughter of a physical therapist who had had a stroke at birth. I noticed that she crawled using one arm and not the other. Immediately my thought was to stop the arm that was moving (constraining it) and support her moving through her torso – equalizing the function of both arms. That means that the arm working was doing only what the limited arm could do.

In my mind I was stimulating this girl’...

Body/movement awareness for rehabilitation

Bonnie Kissam — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:28:56 +0100

One of my clients found me in Sarasota because he was lucky enough to have had a physical therapist who was also a Feldenkrais® Practitioner. Since major neck surgery he had had trouble with his balance. I was able to support his rehabilitation through heightening his body/movement awareness. We did many basic movements which at times emphasized use of his pelvis, his feet, his ribs and his shoulders or arms. All combined to clarify where he was in space whic...

What is Feldenkrais? by Mare Petras

Bonnie Kissam — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:50:43 +0100

Click here to download PDF about: What is Feldenkrais? by Mare Petras
Published in Gulf Coast Healthy Living, a magazine of the Herald Tribune media group, Sep 2007

What is the Feldenkrais Method®?

Bonnie Kissam — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:54:31 +0100

In this Feldenkrais video students of the method describe how it has enriched and changed their lives.

The Feldenkrais Institute of NY

Bonnie Kissam — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:00:37 +0100

www.feldenkraisinstitute.com This was filmed at David Zemach-Bersin's Feldenkrais Training Program in Montclair, NJ in 2001. The Feldenkrais Institute of NY (in Manhattan) is the largest center in North America devoted to the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais.

Healing Quest: Feldenkrais Achieves What Medicine Could Not

Bonnie Kissam — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0100

An inspirational story about the body's ability to teach the brain. A baby born 20 years ago without a third of her cerebellum was given a grim prognosis by medical doctors: she could never walk or talk. Now the young woman enjoys a nearly normal life and is a college student.She and her family attribute her amazing recovery to Feldenkrais, a unique therapy developed in Israel and based in part on the belief that the body can actua...