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Explore the history and legacy of Moshe Feldenkrais and the Feldenkrais Method®, including its martial arts roots, intellectual influences, development, and the people who helped carry the work forward. These articles preserve important stories and ideas while placing the Method in its broader historical context.
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.
Roger Russell reviews Jiu-Jitsu and Self Defense by Moshe Feldenkrais and Moti Nativ. Moti is an archiologist of the Feldenkrais Method.
David Kaetz reflects on Moshe Feldenkrais’s Jiu-Jitsu and Self Defense, connecting the urgency of Feldenkrais’s early martial-arts training with the tenderness of his later work. The review reveals an enduring integration of intensity, attention, power, and compassion.
In May 1981, Moshe Feldenkrais returned to the world of physics for a CERN colloquium titled “Physics and My Method.” These four video excerpts and written companions follow his argument from human development and learning to movement, error, and choice, then explain what the complete CERN transcript adds.
In The Brain’s Way of Healing, Dr. Norman Doidge introduced millions of readers to Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, neuroplasticity, and the remarkable story of a young girl once given a devastating prognosis. This article explores why Doidge’s account became such an influential introduction to the Feldenkrais Method and what it reveals about learning, movement, and the nervous system’s capacity to change.
Moti Nativ remembers Yochanan Rywerant as a demanding, curious, and humorous Feldenkrais master. Through vivid stories from the training room and hospital, he offers an intimate portrait of his teacher’s dedication, independence, and enduring legacy.
Moti Nativ explores the paradox of unstable stability through mechanics, Judo, Moshe Feldenkrais’s writings, and his personal recovery from a stroke. He explains how dynamic stability allows us to respond to disturbance, recover balance, and remain ready for movement.
There are striking parallels in the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and Milton H. Erickson such as the importance of learning, the role of unconscious processes, utilization, indirect techniques, and pattern interruptions that each employs with a subtlety which defies verbal description and strains the powers of observation.
Yochanan Rywerant considers how the Feldenkrais profession can develop through greater practitioner quality. He explains why practitioners must respond to each client’s unique reactions and apply principles rather than repeat predetermined movement sequences.
Ralph Strauch explores the parallels between Tai Chi and the Feldenkrais Method, examining how both traditions use slow, attentive movement to develop awareness, balance, coordination, and adaptability. He considers their different approaches to gravity, reversible movement, sensitivity of touch, and learning.
In 2016, I spent five remarkable days studying with Mia Segal, Moshe Feldenkrais’s first individually trained and authorized practitioner. This short Functional Integration® demonstration offers a glimpse of the presence, knowledge, and quality of attention she brought to her work.
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