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
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
During Awareness Through Movement ® classes and workshops, I lead students verbally through a sequence of gentle movements, breaking down complex actions into smaller movement components. You do the movements at your own pace and in your own way; I do not
From Pain to Pleasure: Finding Freedom Through Neutral
An Invitation to Pleasure “Move toward pleasure,” a dance teacher once offered us young dancers. It was a novel instruction and the results were stunning. I felt a patience and kindness toward myself I had never felt before, and movement
Un-Sticking: Feldenkrais Classes for Creative Flow
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
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
“Think caterpillar into moth . . .”
” . . . An organism to maintain itself must constantly transform itself into other than it was and into what it will be. In Awareness Through Movement, we are fusing our felt sense of the world with that which
Learning to Learn, by Moshe Feldenkrais
A manual to help you get the best results from the Awareness Through Movement lessons Do everything very slowly I do not intend to “teach” you, but to enable you to learn at your own rate of understanding and doing.
How Do You Play?
I am often asked by Awareness Through Movement ® students what they should do in between classes. I have some answers to this question that often surprise people: Firstly, you don’t have to do anything. However, if you feel curious
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