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Why Limit Yourself?
As a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm for almost 20 years, I’ve worked with many people in my practice who… Continued...
Author: Katrin Smithback | Filed under: Enriching Daily Life General Applications
What Would Moshe Do?
“What would Moshe do?” In this month’s spotlight of those who trained directly with Moshe Feldenkrais, I spoke with… Continued...
Author: Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Creativity Enriching Daily Life General Applications Martial Arts
If Structural Limitations aren't as they Seem,
What Else is Possible?
The Information Age seems to have devolved into the Miss-information Age as we are inundated with…
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Author: Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Creativity Enriching Daily Life Functional Integration General Applications
Welcome to the World of Conscious Living
When I think of functioning fully, I think: “How can this person experience becoming more alive?” I find this… Continued...
Author: Annie R. Thoe | Filed under: Enriching Daily Life General Applications
Using Awareness Through Movement® Lessons to Change Your Life
I developed and taught several sessions of a graduate workshop on “The Art of Change: Somatic Awareness and Systems… Continued...
Author: Kathryn Goldman Schuyler | Filed under: Enriching Daily Life General Applications
Unmasking
I recently heard the great stage and film actor Ben Vereen speak with the…
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Author: Gwendolyn Schwinke, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons The Classroom Creativity Enriching Daily Life Functional Integration General Applications The Performing Arts
Making Space for the Unfamiliar
Margie has been coming to private sessions in my office for several weeks to get…
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Author: Maureen McHugh, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Enriching Daily Life General Applications
Uncoiling: A Case Study of Myself
Four years ago, after thirty years as a student of the Feldenkrais Method® and other somatic disciplines, I became… Continued...
Author: Judith Marcus | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Balance and Falling Chronic Pain Creativity Enriching Daily Life Functional Integration General Applications Recovery Stress
Transformations: The Story of Peggy D.
Sometimes patients come in for physical therapy, fix the problem, and leave. Case closed.
Other times, their lives are… Continued...
Author: Greg Hullstrung, P.T. Co-Founder, H&D Physical Therapy | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Balance and Falling Chronic Pain Enriching Daily Life General Applications
The Process of Functional Integration®
“How can something so gentle work so powerfully?”
“You hardly did anything; how could that cause the changes that… Continued...
Author: Ralph Strauch, Ph.D. | Filed under: Functional Integration General Applications
The Gift of Feldenkrais® Training*
Growing up, I never really enjoyed being physical. I was the kid who was always picked last for team… Continued...
Author: Jodi Freedman, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Enriching Daily Life General Applications Sports
The Feldenkrais Method for Actors
St. Cyr: I’ve always loved a particular quote of Dr. Feldenkrais, “If you know what you are doing, you… Continued...
Author: Tommie St. Cyr | Filed under: Introduction General Applications The Performing Arts Voice Training
The Feldenkrais Method and Music
The Feldenkrais Method has been very helpful to me as a teacher and as a performer. My first exposure… Continued...
Author: Linda Case | Filed under: Introduction General Applications The Performing Arts
The Feldenkrais Method - An Overview
The Feldenkrais Method, developed through 40 years of research by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, is a revolutionary approach to understanding… Continued...
Author: Alan Questel | Filed under: Introduction General Applications
Stress, Learning and the Feldenkrais Method®
Life is a bowl of cherries, if you are a bowl filled with cherries. Otherwise there are elements of… Continued...
Author: Chris Elms, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Chronic Pain Enriching Daily Life General Applications Recovery Stress
Seriously, for a Moment A New Research and Scholarship Feature
Seriously? A new SenseAbility feature about research and scholarship regarding the Feldenkrais Method®? Yes, it’s true. As Chair of… Continued...
Author: Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT, GCFT, Chair, Esther Thelen Research Committee | Filed under: Introduction General Applications
Learning about Mind & Body:
Research is One Way
A 1964 article by Moshe Feldenkrais entitled “Mind and Body” is now available in…
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Author: Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT, GCFT | Filed under: Introduction General Applications
A First Approximation: Effects of Feldenkrais® lessons on Women with Breast Cancer
It was a calm spring afternoon when Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm (GCFP) Paulette Dolin, called me to share an… Continued...
Author: Lori Thompson Sweet, PT, GCFT | Filed under: Introduction Chronic Pain Enriching Daily Life Flexibility General Applications Recovery
A Remarkable Recovery from Torn Knee Ligaments
It’s horrifying to think of someone being dragged by a frightened horse, tearing four knee…
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Author: Mary Debono, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Balance and Falling Enriching Daily Life General Applications Recovery Walking
Find the Feldenkrais Method® & Play Forever
After forty years of surfing, it now feels like a dance with the ocean…
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Author: Lori L. Malkoff, MD, MPH, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Balance and Falling Chronic Pain Enriching Daily Life General Applications Recovery Sports
Paradigm for a New Millennium
In the dawning of this new era of instant communication, we move from one frenetic alert to another as… Continued...
Author: Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Creativity Enriching Daily Life Functional Integration General Applications Recovery
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The Art of Slowing Down: A Sense-able Approach to Running Faster
So many people run because…
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Filed under: Introduction Balance and Falling Enriching Daily Life General Applications
Neuroplasticity and The Feldenkrais Method®
Your brain loves to learn. In fact it thrives on acquiring new skills such as playing a musical instrument,… Continued...
Author: Eileen Bach-y-Rita, GCFP | Filed under: Creativity The Elder Citizen Enriching Daily Life General Applications The Performing Arts Recovery Stress
Maintaining Mobility: The Feldenkrais Method® and Multiple Sclerosis
Maintaining mobility is a concern for everyone, especially as we age, but for people with MS…
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Author: Susan Dillon, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Flexibility General Applications Recovery
What would Moshe Do? The Limitations of Certainty
In this month’s Spotlight on those who trained directly with Moshe Feldenkrais, I spoke with Russell Delman, whose interest… Continued...
Author: Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction General Applications
Movement First
“Find a comfortable position to rest in.” A dance teacher quietly goes from leaning on knees and elbows to… Continued...
Author: Prisca Winslow Bradley, GCFP | Filed under: Balance and Falling Creativity Flexibility General Applications The Performing Arts Recovery
Compassion & Balance Inside & Out
There’s a paradigm shift happening today. More and more people are realizing we “think” with our bodies. This shift… Continued...
Author: Catherine Mitchell, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Children The Classroom Creativity Enriching Daily Life Flexibility General Applications
In The Middle of Things - Halfway through Training
When I was young, my Irish grandfather told me “Son, when you leave a place make sure to look… Continued...
Author: Terence McPartland | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Functional Integration General Applications Martial Arts Posture
Improving Dance by Slowing Down
When I first encountered the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education, I was recovering from a serious…
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Author: Erica Trivett, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Balance and Falling Creativity General Applications The Performing Arts Recovery
Improve to Move Yourself
For the past few years, it has been my great pleasure to teach weekly Awareness Through Movement® lessons at… Continued...
Author: Michael Carmody | Filed under: Enriching Daily Life General Applications
It's a Funny Thing This Aging Thing
This article was inspired by a symposium held this past November 2009 in Paris, France. The symposium looked at… Continued...
Author: Irene Gutteridge, GCFP | Filed under: The Elder Citizen General Applications
A Flip of the Hip
When it comes to performance, what can you expect from a Feldenkrais® lesson? Each performer is likely to have… Continued...
Author: Jean Elvin, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons The Classroom Creativity Enriching Daily Life Flexibility General Applications The Performing Arts Voice Training Yoga
Feeding, Fighting, Sex and the Feldenkrais Method
Movement is Life: this is a big picture.
A curse and blessing of being a $FELDREG$ practitioner is finding… Continued...
Author: Chris Elms, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Enriching Daily Life Flexibility General Applications Head, Neck and Jaw
Featured Region: Northern California/ Northern Nevada Region
The Northern California/Northern Nevada Region of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America [FGNA] stretches from the Oregon Border to… Continued...
Author: Paulette Dolin, GCFP | Filed under: The Elder Citizen Enriching Daily Life General Applications
Experience Learning at the 2009 Conference
Experience the Feldenkrais Method® in Forest Grove, Oregon this summer!
Filed under: The Classroom Creativity Enriching Daily Life General Applications
Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais had strong opinions about exercise, and would surely condemn current conventional practices.
Author: Steven Shafarman, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Enriching Daily Life Flexibility General Applications Martial Arts Sports Walking Yoga
Author: Tom Rankin, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Enriching Daily Life General Applications
Russell Delman provides fresh insight into how the Feldenkrais Method® can meet the needs of a changing world. In…
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Author: Cynthia Allen, GCFP | Filed under: Chronic Pain Creativity Enriching Daily Life General Applications
Author: Wendy Murdoch, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons General Applications Sports
“The domain of core self seems to be where psychology crosses paths with brains and bodies.”
Author: Abigail Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Children General Applications Recovery
Twenty-some years ago, at the very beginning of my career as a somatic educator, I was invited to give…
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Author: Michael Krugman, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Creativity Flexibility General Applications
(Practitioners Mary Lou Tromanhauser and Julie Francis explore the dance that is the Feldenkrais Method®)
Author: Julie Francis, GCFP & Mary Lou Tromanhauser, GCFP | Filed under: Introduction Chronic Pain The Elder Citizen Enriching Daily Life Functional Integration General Applications Recovery
Filed under: Introduction Creativity General Applications Recovery
Author: Suzane Van Amburgh, FGNA Conference Coordinator | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Enriching Daily Life General Applications
The Feldenkrais Method first began to move me in a workshop for my art. I was studying maskwork and…
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Author: Emily Davis | Filed under: Introduction ATM Lessons Creativity Enriching Daily Life General Applications The Performing Arts
Learning How to Learn:…
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Fitness, Exercise, and the Feldenkrais Method®
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The Empty Cup Calls the Teapot
“All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.
Yet…
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Embodying Life: An Interview with Russell Delman
The Feldenkrais Method® for Effortless Riding
How many times have you gotten on your horse and thought, “I am so stiff!”…
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The Feldenkrais Method® in Eating Disorder Recovery
-Roger…
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The Dotted Note
A Dance of Awareness
Save the Date!
Join us at the 2010 Feldenkrais Method® Annual Conference
“Less is More”
Loyola University Lake Shore…
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Coming to Our Senses in Portland
How the Feldenkrais Method® Changed my Organization
Actions & Emotions: Deepening Our Somatic Dialogue
