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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.
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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.
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Al Wadleigh guides nine rounds of Wim Hof–style breathing with differentiated arm, leg, and torso positions. The practice explores the five lung lobes, the two sides of the chest, diaphragm movement, and changes in whole-body awareness.
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Al Wadleigh, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, is interviewed by Robert Bowley for the Qigong Effect Summit.
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In this 31-minute Awareness Through Movement lesson, Al Wadleigh explores how the eyes participate in organizing the head, neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, and whole body during turning. The seated and standing variations use actual and imagined movement to develop clearer differentiation and integration.
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Learn to sense into which lung you are breathing more and which lobes are active and which ones are not. Discover how you can use the interplay between breathing, intention, and awareness to direct your breath into your different lobes to access your full potential and level up your breathing practice.
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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.
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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.
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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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This five-minute Feldenkrais Guild UK film offers a view inside a group Awareness Through Movement class. See how participants listen to verbal directions, explore gentle movements at their own pace, use the floor for support and sensory feedback, and reflect on their experiences.
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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.
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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.
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Andrew Dawson demonstrates how a simple sweep of the arm can develop into rolling, sitting, and standing. This short visual companion follows the lesson’s on-screen directions and highlights the continuity of the movement.
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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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In Movement Nature Meant, Ruthy Alon uses movement and poetic imagery to explore how we meet gravity, organize the back, recover primal patterns, and rediscover less habitual possibilities. Watch all four parts with a written companion to each film.
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