October 8, 2026

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.

October 4, 2026

Moshe Feldenkrais Photo Galleries

Explore five photo galleries from Moshe Feldenkrais’s life and work: portraits through the years, teaching, judo and jiu-jitsu, Hadaka-Jime, and the Amherst professional training.

September 12, 2026

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.

September 12, 2026

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

September 11, 2026

Moti Nativ on Jiu-Jitsu and Self Defense by Moshe Feldenkrais

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.

August 25, 2026

Who Was Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais? His Life and Work.

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.

July 29, 2026

On Better Judo: Moshe Feldenkrais on Learning, Balance, and Mastery

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.

July 9, 2026

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.

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