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.
...Trying the Feldenkrais Method for Chronic Pain By JANE E. BRODY OCT. 30, 2017 After two hour-long sessions focused first on body awareness and then on movement retraining at the Feldenkrais Institute of New York, I understood what it meant to experience an incredible lightness of being. Having, temporarily at least, released the muscle tension …
At some point in almost everyone’s teen years, a well-meaning parent or teacher tells us to correct the way we’re standing or sitting. The advice comes with no explanation.
...by Ilona Fried When I was trying to be a yogi, I wasn’t being myself. I didn’t intend to stop doing yoga. I had practiced fairly consistently for more than a decade, beginning with ashtanga, switching to Baron Baptiste’s Power Yoga (Boston, Denver) before migrating to Forrest yoga (Denver) where I ultimately and joyfully did a …
How can a movement practice be linked with other life changes? Moshe Feldenkrais taught that changing physical habits could have far-reaching effects; that since the body and mind are one, addressing one directly affects the other.
...Freeheart began private lessons called Functional Integration, where Wadleigh uses touch and movement to learn the body’s habits and then reteach the nervous system and brain better movement.
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