Does anyone think they need to learn to walk? Hmmm Take a look at the video below! It might look simple and easy to do — but our habitual overall movement patterns limit our ability to feel all the details that Mark is sharing. Enjoy the letting go of old patterns and discovering new ones […]
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Neuroplasticity for Learning
“Ultimately, you are the architect of your brain. When you change your beliefs, learn something new or become mindful of your habitual reactions to unpleasant emotions, you actually alter the neurochemistry and the structure of your brain.” Kyle Pierce 2015 The above words could have been said by Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc. He most likely would have […]
Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc.
About educating children with special needs
“Every child’s future depends on learning. The brain shapes and structures itself constantly in response to it’s experiences. We want these experiences to provide the child’s brain with lots of new information that is positive and useful.” Anat Baniel www.anatbanielmethod.com The Anat Baniel Method® of neuromovement for Children with Special Needs is a result of Anat Baniels’ […]
Podcasts for Repetitive Strain Injuries
Deborah Quilter, help for RSI, interviews both Larry Goldfarb and Cliff Smyth, two Feldenkrais Trainers/Practitioners — offering ideas that could be very helpful to all of us who use computers! Larry gives a little ten minute lesson sitting in chairs — and talks about the great dilemma people have in using movement for ‘learning’ versus […]
Children Learning! without shoes
Even as a third grader I was taking care of my comfort, always taking off my shoes whenever I sat behind a desk!! Now — thanks to a no shoe policy to keep classrooms clean — Look what they are finding!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/05/23/schoolchildren-with-no-shoes-on-do-better-and-behave-better-in-t/
Feldenkrais and Horseback Riding
Principles of awareness and finding your center or core is applicaple to everyday walking — and for walking ‘with’ the horse. To Read more
Moving from and through Your CORE
3/28/2017 “Thank you again for a great workshop. Every time I learn new ways of teaching yoga poses and a better understanding of the total body.” Review from: Seminar, Sunday, June 19th 10:00-5:00 at Living Room Yoga in St. Petersburg, FL 6 CEs for LMTs The Feldenkrais Method® is about helping you find ways […]
Feldenkrais and Parkinson’s
Research is always ongoing and the benefits of the Feldenkrais Method is often elusive. With that, in this study, many Parkinsonians found benefits. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/845526
Why I do Feldenkrais, instead Of Yoga
Let me remind everyone — I love taking Yoga classes. The following is a recent article written by a colleague, but describes eloquently experiences that were so similar to mine almost 40 years ago — when… Please take time to read about her somatic experience.