What do you mean by pleasure? I’ve been teaching my students to move toward pleasure in their yoga and Feldenkrais® practices for many years. I find it a little awkward to use the word “pleasure”, with its connotations of sex
Principles that Guide my Teaching
You, my student, are self-governing. My job is to guide you to deepen your awareness of yourself and help you to improve your ability to self-govern. I can’t create experience for you. I can only participate in creating the environment
Constructive Disobedience: Feldenkrais in the Yoga Classroom
(Constructive Disobedience: 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 the
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
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. For another article on Feldenkrais in