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.
Online Feldenkrais Classes for the Spring
Join me from the comfort of your own home or workplace for these two series of online Feldenkrais ® Awareness Through Movement ® classes. These lessons will help you slow your worried mind, sense yourself, and make clear action from
Walking Your Walk: A Spring In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat
Walking Your Walk: A Spring In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat Do you ever wish that walking were more comfortable, or that you could walk longer or farther? As we mature, we may notice that we lose certain capacities in walking, like “I’m
Pleasure and the Mistake of Chronic Pain
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