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The Feldenkrais Blog brings together articles, interviews, research, and resources exploring the Feldenkrais Method®. Browse practical, historical, and experiential perspectives on movement, awareness, attention, learning, Awareness Through Movement®, Functional Integration®, and the work of Moshe Feldenkrais.
Al Wadleigh joins Michael Waite on the Brain Shaman podcast to explore learning, movement, sensory awareness, skeletal support, rest, and imagination. Their conversation concludes with a guided Feldenkrais® lesson using the eyes, head, arms, and turning.
By Al Wadleigh, GCFP Article Summary When dealing with many people, healing is often defined as getting rid of pain, stiffness, stress, or discomfort. While understandable, this creates what Al Wadleigh calls a negative outcome—an outcome defined by what you do not want rather than what you do want. Drawing on ideas from the Feldenkrais
Moti Nativ discusses discovering an original copy of Moshe Feldenkrais’s *Jiu-Jitsu and Self Defense* and explains why he considers it the first expression of the Feldenkrais Method. He traces its instinctive-response principle through later Israeli self-defense systems and Moshe’s continuing emphasis on practical learning.
Moshe Feldenkrais was an engineer, physicist, martial artist, author, and teacher whose lifelong investigation of learning and action became the Feldenkrais Method. His work developed through science, judo, self-observation, and decades of teaching.
Moti Nativ examines the five Better Judo essays Moshe Feldenkrais wrote for the Budokwai Bulletin between 1948 and 1949. His commentary reveals how Feldenkrais’s investigations of balance, posture, reversibility, reduced effort, and intelligent repetition anticipated principles that would later become central to the Feldenkrais Method.
Jack Heggie treated skiing as a laboratory for learning. His experiments with ski boots, posture, balance, bumps, and powder show how slowing down and sensing differences can open new possibilities.
The Feldenkrais Method uses gentle movement and attention to help you recognize how you organize yourself for action. By exploring different possibilities, everyday movement and skilled performance may become easier, more comfortable, and more adaptable.
Prepare your at-home space for Feldenkrais lessons with ease. Learn tips for creating a comfortable, functional setup for optimal movement and learning at home.
First-person accounts of what people noticed through Feldenkrais lessons, including personal observations about movement, comfort, awareness, and everyday activity.
A practical map of peer‑reviewed findings and pilot studies on the Feldenkrais Method®. We grouped the evidence by topic and added plain‑English takeaways so readers can see how learning to move with awareness supports better organization, comfort, and ease in the self.
Discover seven practical principles from the Feldenkrais Method® to help you move with greater ease, reduce muscular effort, and find relief from pain in everyday movements.
By Al Wadleigh, GCFP Article Summary Five familiar movement myths encourage us to push through pain, hold ourselves rigidly, work harder, force flexibility, and accept decline with age. The Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education offers a more hopeful idea: movement can improve through attention, curiosity, and more efficient effort. Questioning these myths may change how
The Feldenkrais Method uses gentle, mindful movement to tap into neuroplasticity, the brain’s lifelong ability to learn, adapt, and reorganize. By exploring movement with awareness, it can help improve coordination, balance, posture, and comfort while reducing unnecessary effort and strain. The result is greater ease, efficiency, and freedom in everyday movement.
Good breathing changes with what you are doing. Explore how habits and fixed rules can limit that adaptability—and how noticing creates more possibilities.
What changes when movement is approached as learning? In this conversation with Nicky, Al Wadleigh explains whole-person organization, the two forms of Feldenkrais lessons, and why slower movement can make more choices perceptible.
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