Private Feldenkrais ® lessons, also called Functional Integration ®, are a hands-on form of tactile, kinesthetic communication. If you have a particular question, acute difficulty, or if you are someone who learns best in one-on-one environments, private lessons may be best
What is a Feldenkrais class?
What happens during Feldenkrais® Awareness through Movement® class? You might hear Feldenkrais® classes referred to as Awareness Through Movement®. They are two names for the same thing. During Awareness Through Movement classes and workshops, I lead students verbally through a sequence
Awareness Through Movement : Sensation Is the Language of Movement
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
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
DIY Gratitude Wheel
You do not need to have experience or “talent” in art to have a satisfying creative process. Remember, no one is looking over your shoulder. The process of making a gratitude wheel is for your pleasure, and yours alone. At
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
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