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.
...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.
...Al Wadleigh, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, is interviewed by Robert Bowley for the Qigong Effect Summit.
...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.
...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.
...Moti Nativ talks about discovering an original copy of Jiu-Jitsu and Self Defense by Moshe Feldenkrais. And how it lead him to understand the links between Feldenkrais’s martial arts background and his development of the Feldenkrais Method. The book is based on the unique approach where the first movement of defense is the instinctive movement …
Al Wadleigh and Tammy Lynn Davis talk about how we perceive our self-image and how common ideas about the self-image relate Dr. Feldenkrais ideas.
...Dr. Merzenich, Professor Emeritus at the University of San Francisco, and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Posit Science, was the 2012 Keynote Speaker at the Feldenkrais Method Conference.
...A few months ago a friend of mine told me about a comedy team he had heard on the radio joking about Feldenkrais. “The Sklar Brothers,” he said. I made a note to check them out later. Well, I found them … and their nearly one-minute routine on the Feldenkrais Method. Check it out.
...Children are bundles of sensation. Teach them an awareness of these sensations, and they will understand themselves better, and how they can use their body to understand how they think. Development is a function of both the body and the brain. Teach it, and you will improve grades and social behavior, but more importantly you will give the children a tool that will improve their quality of happiness for years to come.
...Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais lecturing at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, about the Feldenkrais Method, it’s development, theory, and practice. This is part 1.
...Al Wadleigh and Donna Ray discuss her Advanced Feldenkrais Training and Public Workshop, The Link Between Recovering from Trauma and Emotional Integration.
...This a beautiful video created by Buffy Owens, is based on a quote from an interview with Moshe Feldenkrais in the book Embodied Wisdom – The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais.
...Al Wadleigh and Richard Corbel discuss Richard’s background in music and sound creation and how that lead to the development of his acclaimed audio program, Vocal Integration with the Feldenkrais Method®.
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