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These articles explore how the Feldenkrais Method® can support greater ease, comfort, balance, coordination, and adaptability in everyday movement. Through gentle movement and attentive exploration, the Method creates conditions for learning and discovering new possibilities rather than prescribing one correct way to move.
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
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, 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.
Your eyes do more than gather visual information—they participate in organizing movement throughout your body. Explore how the eyes coordinate with the head, neck, shoulders, hips, and back, then try a brief seated Feldenkrais exploration designed to make turning smoother and easier.
We don’t sense our backside as clearly as we do ourselves in front. We tend to be very frontally oriented. We are always moving forward, looking forward, and interacting with the world in front of ourselves. So how do we learn to sense our backside as richly as possible? Through careful actuation of our proprioception.
Spring is here! As you start to get outside to hike, bike, garden, and enjoy the weather, you may be surprised to find yourself experiencing some aches and pains. Being sore may seem like a surprise. After all, you have done this activity many times over the years.
When New York Times health columnist Jane Brody tried the Feldenkrais Method, she expected very little. What she discovered challenged her assumptions about chronic pain, movement, and the brain’s remarkable capacity to learn. This article revisits her experience through the perspective of a Feldenkrais practitioner.
Severe back pain first led Al Wadleigh to Functional Integration® lessons with Jack Heggie. Discover how those lessons—and seeing the structure behind them—inspired Al to become a Feldenkrais practitioner.
In this archival interview, Al Wadleigh and Richard Corbeil discuss voice as an activity of the whole person and explore how movement, sensation, articulation, posture, and attention can contribute to vocal learning. Achieving Excellence no longer sells the audio program that originally prompted the conversation.
A study of older adults with osteoarthritis found that 30 weeks of Feldenkrais Method Awareness Through Movement classes improved dynamic balance and gait, helping participants move more efficiently and with greater confidence. The gentle, learning-based approach may offer a practical way to reduce strain, improve walking, and make everyday activities easier.
This article challenges the idea that good posture means holding a fixed position. Drawing on Moshe Feldenkrais, it explains posture as dynamic organization for movement, breathing, and balance rather than appearance. Through awareness and simple movement experiments, readers learn how reducing unnecessary effort can improve comfort, function, and posture naturally.
By Al Wadleigh, GCFP Article Summary Many people assume that improving a skill requires practicing that specific skill. If you want to become a better runner, you run. If you want to improve your golf swing, you practice golf. The Feldenkrais Method works differently. Rather than focusing on a particular activity, it develops the underlying
The pelvis is the center of human movement. Learn how pelvic awareness influences walking, balance, breathing, coordination, and comfort through the lens of the Feldenkrais Method®.
Because students and teachers often think there is only one way to position the left hand or use the bow arm, they overlook an idea that could be more valuable and helpful to them. Just as we have a range of motion in standing upright in one place (leaning forward and backward, or to the left and right) before we lose our balance, we have ranges of motion in the left and right hands (and in the body as it relates to playing) before we get into the areas that promote tension and distort positions.
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