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Articles: Enriching Daily Life

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…   Continued...

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…   Continued...

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…   Continued...

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 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  

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  

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…   Continued...

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…   Continued...

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…   Continued...

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  

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  

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  

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!


Learning How to Learn:…   Continued...

Filed under: The Classroom  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

Fitness, Exercise, and the Feldenkrais Method®

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais had strong opinions about exercise, and would surely condemn current conventional practices.
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Author: Steven Shafarman, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Enriching Daily Life  Flexibility  General Applications  Martial Arts  Sports  Walking  Yoga  

The Empty Cup Calls the Teapot


“All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.
Yet…   Continued...

Author: Tom Rankin, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

Embodying Life: An Interview with Russell Delman

Russell Delman provides fresh insight into how the Feldenkrais Method® can meet the needs of a changing world. In…   Continued...

Author: Cynthia Allen, GCFP    |    Filed under: Chronic Pain  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

A Dance of Awareness

(Practitioners Mary Lou Tromanhauser and Julie Francis explore the dance that is the Feldenkrais Method®)


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Author: Julie Francis, GCFP & Mary Lou Tromanhauser, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Chronic Pain  The Elder Citizen  Enriching Daily Life  Functional Integration  General Applications  Recovery  

Creative Learning Through Movement with Children

Through movement we experience our world. Long before verbal and cognitive development take center stage, we learn through our…   Continued...

Author: Sonja H. Sutherland, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Children  The Classroom  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  

Coming to Our Senses in Portland

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Author: Suzane Van Amburgh, FGNA Conference Coordinator    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

How the Feldenkrais Method® Changed my Organization

The Feldenkrais Method first began to move me in a workshop for my art. I was studying maskwork and…   Continued...

Author: Emily Davis    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  The Performing Arts  

A Case in Persistence and Learning

Jan is one of those people who just doesn’t take no for an answer, even when it comes from…   Continued...

Author: Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT, GCFT    |    Filed under: Introduction  The Back  Balance and Falling  Chronic Pain  Enriching Daily Life  Flexibility  Recovery  The Shoulders  Special Needs  Walking  

Try This: An Awareness Through Movement® Lesson


Sit comfortably in a chair, with both feet on the floor and your back…   Continued...

Author: Chris Elms, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  Enriching Daily Life  

Anti-Exercise for the Older and Wiser

The older we get, the cleverer we must become. As we age, it becomes more important than ever to…   Continued...

Author: Frank Wildman, Ph.D.    |    Filed under: Introduction  The Elder Citizen  Enriching Daily Life  

Active Sitting

When you’re busy at your computer, reading, or watching TV, you may forget that you’re also sitting - until…   Continued...

Author: Mary Newell    |    Filed under: The Back  Enriching Daily Life  Posture  The Workplace  

A personal tale: changing focus and learing more

Seven years ago, I was recovering from a serious injury and struggling to get back to 100% function. I…   Continued...

Author: Irene Gutteridge, BSc, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  Recovery  

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