GIVE ME MY FELDENKRAIS! Don’t be deceived! The gentle movement and awareness practice of the Feldenkrais Method ® has powerfully impressive results in relieving jaw pain and the tenacious trouble we can get into at the intersection of the head,
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
Moving Forward: A Spring In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat
UPDATE! The Spring Retreat is now Saturday ONLY! What Happens in an In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat? The Spring In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat offers three days of gentle movement, awareness practice, self-care and restoration; a clean, quiet, comfortable space; an experienced teacher … and you don’t
Spreading Your Wings: Online Feldenkrais Classes for Arms, Neck and Shoulders
Did you know that your shoulder blades have no skeletal attachment on your back? That your arms attach, via your collarbones, at the top of your breast bone, right under your throat—like a bird’s wings? If you moved your arms
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
Self Image | Body Image
“The behavior of human beings is firmly based on the self-image they have made for themselves. Accordingly, if one wishes to change one’s behavior, it will be necessary to change this image. What is a self-image? I would argue that
“The more we reside in the body…
… the more we find ourselves living in the penumbral awareness of the body itself. In time, we find ourselves knowing our world not so much through thinking about it, but by sensing it and feeling it, not just as
No Wrong Movement
Have you ever heard me in say class, “There is NO WRONG MOVEMENT”? What does that mean? What if that were really true? Without being told what is the “right” movement, how would you know how to move? How would
A No Wrong Movement Mini-Lesson
This is a meta-mini-lesson you can apply to any repeatable series of movements that you do with awareness. Take any Feldenkrais lesson, or sequences from hatha yoga, t’ai chi, or dance. You can even repeat a sequence of everyday movements
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.) One of the governing principles shared by