When Comfort and Routine Causes Suffering
Comfort can cause suffering. That sounds odd, but it is very often true. Nassim Taleb captured the idea in this quote: “In nature, we never repeat the same moti...
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Rethink Intensive Feldenkrais Trainings
They Were for Moshe, Not You The original Feldenkrais training model was not created for your nervous system. It was created for Moshe’s travel schedule. The Sa...
Feldenkrais Alexander Yanai: What Are They?
A big part of Feldenkrais history is a collection of lessons known as the "Alexander Yanai sessions." You may sometimes hear Feldenkrais practitioners refer to ...
Moshe Feldenkrais At CERN. FI Demonstration. Audio Restored!
This is rare 1981 archival footage of Moshe Feldenkrais teaching at CERN (a European Organization for Nuclear Research) is shared for educational, historical, a...
The Non-Habitual Non-Habitual
The same somatics session is a different session when you do it in a new context. I didn’t learn it from a Feldenkrais teacher. I learned it from a bunch of col...
Somatic Simplification: Less Noise, More Freedom
In November of 2024, after the U.S. election, I began blocking news websites. You already know why, yes? The toxicity, anger and fear from all sides was increas...
Somatic Levels of Meaning
Something that I have been tracking over the years is the different ways that people categorize somatic sessions with words—and how that affects learning,...
Feldenkrais Better For Knee Pain Than Medication?
A couple of days ago, I saw a headline from an online newspaper that so perfectly fit my bias as a somatics practitioner that I decided it must not be true! ? I...
The Feldenkrais Origins of Foam Rollers
If you’re new to Feldenkrais, you might not be familiar with the idea of using “rollers” in the context of Feldenkrais sessions. In gym culture and physical the...
Moshe Feldenkrais, Hypnosis, and the Unconscious
Many people associate Moshe Feldenkrais’s name with Judo—but not with hypnosis or the unconscious. But that misses something important. Because Moshe’s first pu...