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History
altDr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) was a mechanical engineer who became interested in the movement patterns and muscular tensions we develop that limit the easy flow of movement we had before age, injury or disease interfered. With his broad range of knowledge in movement, learning theories, neuroscience, psychology and systems theory he understood, over 60 years ago, that the brain had fluid properties and that one could, through attention and sensory experiences, make shifts in how the brain works to allow motor patterns to relearn.

The pioneering mind/body work of Dr. Feldenkrais was originally designed to teach himself how to move without pain. Through attention and awareness he learned that in order to create new possibilities he needed to quiet his old patterns of action. Then, like a child, he needed to take the time to attend to and sense his actions and then re-discover the process of finding an optimally organized way for moving with ease and efficiency. This returned him to a sense of wholeness in thought, attitude and action. 

Recent article on Pain:  http://www.aapainmanage.org/education/EducationLit/Pain%20Practitioner%20Spring_2010.pdf

He found that learning how to learn was more important than the learning itself.
Metacognition: http://gse.buffalo.edu/fas/shuell/cep564/metacog.htm
Dr. Feldenkrais, also an Israeli physicist and judo practitioner of Eastern European descent, first taught the Method to 13 students in Israel. In the early 1970s, Dr. Feldenkrais taught at Esalen, California in the United States and gave professional trainings in San Francisco (1975-1977) and Amherst, Massachusetts (1980-1983). His Method is now taught throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan by a group of highly skilled trainers and their assistants in an 800 hour program that extends over four years. Today there are over 3000 certified practitioners world wide.

The Feldenkrais Method® reminds us that the best learning is self-discovery.   When we seem limited in our abilities, we can return to sensing our unlimited resources and reconnect with our ability to learn. This can be the most efficient way to learn new paths and once more function in an efficient, graceful manner.
 
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