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These articles examine the ideas and learning principles that shape the Feldenkrais Method®, including attention, sensation, variation, habitual action, and the relationships among movement, thinking, and feeling. They offer deeper context for understanding how the Method creates conditions for learning without reducing it to a collection of exercises or techniques.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Al Wadleigh, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, is interviewed by Robert Bowley for the Qigong Effect Summit.
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
Gregory Bateson’s theory of logical levels offers a powerful framework for understanding learning and problem solving. This paper examines how those principles illuminate the Feldenkrais Method, revealing how awareness, context, and movement can lead to profound and lasting change.
Neuroscientist Dr. Michael Merzenich discusses how variation, exploration, meaningful engagement, and recognizing progress support learning. In this 2012 keynote excerpt, he identifies specific points of convergence between brain plasticity research and the Feldenkrais Method without claiming that neuroscience validates the Method as a whole.
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