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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

shericohenmovement August 31, 2023September 5, 2023 Awareness Through Movement, Feldenkrais Read more

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

shericohenmovement August 1, 2023August 31, 2023 Awareness Through Movement, Feldenkrais, Yoga Read more

From Pain to Pleasure: Finding Freedom Through Neutral

pleasure words cloud | Sheri Cohen Feldenkrais

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

shericohenmovement August 27, 2022August 31, 2022 Feldenkrais, Yoga Read more

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

shericohenmovement November 18, 2019May 4, 2020 Awareness Through Movement, Feldenkrais, Yoga Read more

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

shericohenmovement November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Awareness Through Movement, Feldenkrais, Yoga Read more

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

shericohenmovement September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 Feldenkrais, Yoga Read more

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

shericohenmovement January 14, 2019January 22, 2019 Feldenkrais, Inspiration Read more

“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

shericohenmovement January 14, 2019January 22, 2019 Feldenkrais, Inspiration Read more

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

shericohenmovement November 14, 2018January 22, 2019 Awareness Through Movement, Dance, Feldenkrais, Inspiration, Yoga Read more

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

shericohenmovement November 14, 2018January 22, 2019 Mini-Lesson Read more
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