The following is by a fellow Feldenkrais Practitioner who suggests we move our mind set from stress as a downer to an OPPORTUNITY! “We are designed to learn but often avoid the opportunity. If we are smart and/or lucky we will set up challenges to stress/expand our lives.” Chris Elms To read more!
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RSS feed for this sectionWalking is more than ‘exercise’
“The brain is the only organ in the body that never stops developing and although it sounds extraordinary, an ordinary daily activity such as walking helps to keep it developing”. I have always promoted Walking as a wonderful activity for the brain. Walking, when easy, demonstrates how you can create harmony within your whole self through […]
WE learn by doing….
“Motor Learning Specialists have found that we learn by doing,” says Dowd, who began teaching at Julliard as an assistant to Ideokinesis matriarch Lulu Sweigard in the late 1960s. ‘If you learn it ( anatomy) intellectually, you forget it. You have to do it physically and then you can start to understand what you have learned.” Irene Dowd […]
TIGER WOODS IS EXCELLING WITH A FOCUS ON ‘FEEL’
The above is the title of an article in the PGA Newsletter of March 15, 2018. The author, T.J. Auclair, makes it clear that Tiger is concentrating and practicing, and that he also has years of technical learning. Still – the idea that he is now focusing on ‘sensing SUBTLE differences and playing with the […]
Marvelous Movement – Being Present
One of my Poems published in 1989
Follow up Jane Brody
The breadth and Miracle of our ability to expand and grow! Ilona writes so beautifully about every thought I had regarding the much appreciated article by Jane Brody in the New York Times October 30, 2017. A great read for the New Year! https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whats-missing-from-the-new-york-times-feldenkrais_us_59fba4cbe4b09887ad6f3ed2
Crooked … Ramin Feldenkrais helps back pain
Earlier this year, Cathryn J. Ramin wrote about her discoveries in her journey to find suggestions or processes that could reduce her back pain and help her function easier. In her journey she explores and finds helpful her experience with the process and thinking that came from The Feldenkrais Method. There is a video […]
You have to go slow … think fast, go slow
I love the answer Anat Baniel gives in this interview!!
Jane Brody, New York Times, Feldenkrais
October 30, the New York Times printed an article by Jane Brody, who personally experienced the benefits one can receive from the thinking, science and process promoted by Moshe Feldenkrais, D. Sc., through Awareness Through Movement® classes as well as Individual Functional Integration® lessons. It has been nice to see her recognition.
Keep brain Alive — dance — Feldenkrais
Awareness Through Movement Lessons are designed to make you think while you move and discover new moves or ‘new choreography’. The following article’s research shows dance to be more valuable than traditional exercise due to the change in ‘choreography’. “Each day, in everyday, we get better and better.” Emile Coue The Feldenkrais method asks you […]