How to Do Feldenkrais Lessons: A Guide to Awareness Through Movement

Explore how Awareness Through Movement lessons combine gentle movement and attention, what happens during a lesson, and how to begin with curiosity and ease.

My Teaching Philosophy

Al Wadleigh explores how movement, awareness, curiosity, and appropriate challenge support lifelong learning and a changing sense of what we can do.

Neuroplasticity, Learning, and the Feldenkrais Method®

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.

Exploring chronic pain and attention and moving beyond getting out of pain

Why “Getting Out of Pain” Is Not Enough: Chronic Pain and Attention

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

A Feldenkrais lesson exploring comfortable movement and attention

What is the Feldenkrais Method?

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.

Research on the Feldenkrais Method®

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.

Nicky interviewing Feldenkrais practitioner Al Wadleigh for The Connected Community podcast.

How the Feldenkrais Method® Uses Learning to Improve Whole-Person Functioning

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.

David Ben-Gurion standing on his head in an article image about Moshe Feldenkrais and back pain relief

How David Ben-Gurion Fixed His Back Pain

When Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, developed chronic back pain, he turned to Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais for help. This remarkable story explores how the Feldenkrais Method transformed more than his back—it changed his confidence, movement, and self-image, leaving behind one of the most enduring images in the Method’s history.

Video interview: Rob Bowley interviews Al Wadleigh about the Feldenkrais Method

Robert Bowley Interviews Al Wadleigh About the Feldenkrais Method®

Al Wadleigh, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, is interviewed by Robert Bowley for the Qigong Effect Summit.

Develop your self-image and self-perception

Sensing Yourself in Three-Dimensions

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.

What Is Vision? What Is Seeing? How Eye Movements Influence Posture, Balance, and Movement

The Many Functions of the Eyes
The eyes see, take in sensory information, anchor us in time, express emotions, organize our movement, and are part of our thinking. This article will primarily focus on the actions of the eyes related to seeing.

Self-Image and the Modeling Process

What if your understanding of yourself is based on a model rather than reality itself? Discover how Alfred Korzybski, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, and the modeling process reveal the hidden maps that shape perception, movement, and behavior.

Johnatha Bastos playing the guitar with his feet, illustrating the remarkable adaptability of the brain and the untapped potential of the human motor cortex.

Johnatha Bastos: What a Guitarist Playing with His Feet Teaches Us About the Brain

Johnatha Bastos’s extraordinary guitar performance is more than an inspiring story—it offers a fascinating lesson about the brain. Discover how the motor cortex, self-image, and Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’s work reveal the remarkable potential hidden in our own feet.

Out of Control radio interview with Tammy Lynn Davis, Decimus Varro, and Al Wadleigh about self-image

Self-Image, Movement, and Awareness: My “Out of Control” Radio Interview

In this “Out of Control” radio interview, Al Wadleigh explains Moshe Feldenkrais’s concept of self-image and its relationship to sensory and motor maps, awareness, posture, emotion, asymmetry, and movement. Host Tammy Lynn Davis also describes how private lessons changed her felt sense of support.

Illustration of a woman walking effortlessly on a cloud, representing Jane Brody's experience of feeling "like walking on air" after discovering the Feldenkrais Method for chronic pain.

The New York Times Discovers The Feldenkrais Method

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.

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