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Are you ready to take control of your movement and experience less pain? These 7 simple steps are designed to help you move with greater ease, comfort, and awareness. Whether you’re looking to relieve tension, improve posture, or simply feel better in your body, these steps offer a gentle and effective approach.1. Make Small, Slow, …
We’ve all heard them. Those common ideas about movement that sound like wisdom but can actually lead us away from ease and freedom. Let’s set the record straight. 1. No Pain, No GainPain isn’t a sign of progress. It’s a signal that something isn’t right. The Feldenkrais Method® teaches that learning and improvement happen best when …
The Brain’s Ability to Change: Understanding NeuroplasticityNeuroplasticity is the brain’s remarkable ability to change, adapt, and form new neural connections throughout life. This process is how we learn new skills, recover from injuries, and adapt to changing environments. Movement plays a crucial role in stimulating these changes. When we engage in new, mindful movement patterns, …
Neuroplasticity through Feldenkrais — Unlock Your Learning, Habit Change, and Potential | Episode 78 In this episode, our guest is Al Wadleigh, a Feldenkrais practitioner and the co-host of the Feldenkrais for Life podcast. We talk about how to rewire our nervous system through Feldenkrais, increasing our learning, memory, health, and potential. Returning us to that …
Ideally, your breath should be flexible and adaptable to any situation—every experience, whether of emotion, thought, or movement, requires a different organization of your breathing.
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In this episode, Nicky and I delve into the transformative and healing effects of Feldenkrais, exploring its numerous benefits and how it can profoundly impact our lives, our nervous systems, and our overall functioning. Additionally, Nicky shares her personal journey of working with me within this powerful modality.
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A recent article on Ynetnews.com, an Israeli online newspaper, recounted how Dr. Moseh Feldenkrais worked with David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, and how Feldenkrais helped cure his back pain.
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Explore how placing your arms and legs in different positions accesses the potential of your breath. You have two lungs. Your right lung has three lobes, and your left lung has two lobes. We usually don’t fully access all of our lobes when we do our breathing practice. Discover how placing your arms and legs in different positions accesses each of your lobes or combinations of lobes. You will gain deeper, fuller, and more satisfying lung capacity by the end of this exploration.
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There are two key concepts of how your eyes organize your body for action. One, the direction your eyes move presupposes action in that direction. Two, you can increase the range and ease of motion by differentiating your eyes from your head, neck, shoulders, and other parts.
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Al Wadleigh, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, is interviewed by Robert Bowley for the Qigong Effect Summit.
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Your eyes play an important role in organizing your body for movement. In this lesson, you discover how to use your eyes to improve your turning, reduce pain and stiffness in your neck and shoulders, and enhance your field of vision.
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Learn to sense into which lung you are breathing more and which lobes are active and which ones are not. Discover how you can use the interplay between breathing, intention, and awareness to direct your breath into your different lobes to access your full potential and level up your breathing practice.
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We don’t sense our backside as clearly as we do ourselves in front. We tend to be very frontally oriented. We are always moving forward, looking forward, and interacting with the world in front of ourselves. So how do we learn to sense our backside as richly as possible? Through careful actuation of our proprioception.
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Spring is here! As you start to get outside to hike, bike, garden, and enjoy the weather, you may be surprised to find yourself experiencing some aches and pains. Being sore may seem like a surprise. After all, you have done this activity many times over the years.
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The Many Functions of the Eyes
The eyes see, take in sensory information, anchor us in time, express emotions, organize our movement, and are part of our thinking. This article will primarily focus on the actions of the eyes related to seeing.
