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Learning to Ski with Awareness: Five Feldenkrais Method® Principles for Better Skiing

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.

Wim Hof–Style Breathing With Differentiated Arm and Leg Positions

Al Wadleigh guides nine rounds of Wim Hof–style breathing with differentiated arm, leg, and torso positions. The practice explores the five lung lobes, the two sides of the chest, diaphragm movement, and changes in whole-body awareness.

Al Wadleigh demonstrating how eye movement organizes the head, shoulders, and body during an Awareness Through Movement lesson

How Your Eyes Organize Your Body for Movement: An Awareness Through Movement® Lesson

In this 31-minute Awareness Through Movement lesson, Al Wadleigh explores how the eyes participate in organizing the head, neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, and whole body during turning. The seated and standing variations use actual and imagined movement to develop clearer differentiation and integration.

Gluing in the Lungs #1: A Feldenkrais® Lesson for Tummo, Wim Hof, and Pranayama Breathing

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.

Feldenkrais Hopping: How to Move With More Lightness and Less Effort

Hopping is about much more than leg strength. In this article, Al Wadleigh explores how Moshe Feldenkrais’s Alexander Yanai hopping lessons reveal hidden habits of effort and improve balance, coordination, breathing, and lightness of movement.

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Improving the Entire Personality Through the Feldenkrais Method®

Moshe Feldenkrais taught that movement lessons should improve more than one joint. They can expand the self-image, increase awareness, and help the whole person become more adaptable, integrated, and capable.

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What King Crimson Reveals About the Architecture of Learning

Inspired by King Crimson’s 21st Century Schizoid Man, this article explores a surprising connection between progressive rock and the Feldenkrais Method®. Discover how theme, variation, and return form a shared architecture of learning that deepens awareness, improves movement, and transforms the way we learn.

My Journey Through the Feldenkrais Alexander Yanai Lessons

In 2016, Al Wadleigh began a two-year journey through all 550 Alexander Yanai lessons taught by Moshe Feldenkrais. Working through the series in sequence transformed his movement, deepened his understanding of the Feldenkrais Method®, and changed how he approached teaching, Functional Integration®, and learning.

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais – On Doing Less to Do More – From Alexander Yanai Lesson 399

In Alexander Yanai Lesson 399, Moshe Feldenkrais explores the crucial distinction between learning and performing. By doing less than we are capable of doing, we create the conditions for awareness, discovery, and genuine improvement. This simple but profound principle can transform movement, skill development, and the way we approach learning itself.

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AY 305: The Line of the Ball That Rolls: Expanding the Self-Image Through Movement and Imagination

Alexander Yanai Lesson 305, The Line of the Ball That Rolls, occupies a unique place in the development of the Feldenkrais Method. Taught during the same creative period as Feldenkrais’ lecture on the self-image and later preserved as Lesson 11 in Awareness Through Movement, this remarkable lesson uses movement and imagination to expand body awareness, clarify the self-image, and reveal new possibilities for learning and action.

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AY 303: The Self-Image — The Philosophy Behind “The Line of the Ball That Rolls”

In Alexander Yanai Lesson 303, Moshe Feldenkrais introduces one of the central ideas of his life’s work: the self-image. Taught while he was writing what would become *Awareness Through Movement* and developing *The Line of the Ball That Rolls* lessons, this remarkable lecture explores the relationship between movement, sensation, feeling, and thought — and how expanding the self-image can expand the person.

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What Happens in an Awareness Through Movement® Class?

This five-minute Feldenkrais Guild UK film offers a view inside a group Awareness Through Movement class. See how participants listen to verbal directions, explore gentle movements at their own pace, use the floor for support and sensory feedback, and reflect on their experiences.

Andrew Dawson rolling from lying toward sitting and standing during an Awareness Through Movement® lesson

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