Moshe Feldenkrais’ Use Of The Word Idiot and Idiotic
As I have written many times, I love teaching about certain ideas that Feldenkrais was attempting to elucidate. That is especially true of the verbally directed...
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Bikram Yoga and Feldenkrais: The Abuse Allegations
What do Bikram Yoga and Feldenkrais have in common? Here's one thing: The founder of Bikram Yoga, Bikram Choudhury has many public allegations of sexual harassm...
What Feldenkrais Got Wrong?
Feldenkrais On Meditation "You live so poorly that you need the drug or the meditation. If you need the relief, it means that you use yourself wrongly, in the s...
Feldenkrais Fan, Feldenkrais Critic
Some folks are new here and might not know this, so I think it bears repeating: I am a fan of some of Feldenkrais's ideas. But I am also a critic of some of his...
Was Feldenkrais A Scientist? (Yes and No)
There is a habit in the Feldenkrais community of calling Moshe Feldenkrais a scientist or a physicist. I can see why people might think that. Back in the 1930s ...
weird, gentle session for relaxing jaw, face and tongue
For a brief moment, I hesitated in posting this session. If I were to re-record it today, I could make it shorter and a bit clearer. However, the main movements...
Feldenkrais, “I was not able to finish my work”
This is not a well-known fact, but Moshe Feldenkrais had less than 10 years of teaching in the United State before he died. His first training was in Esalen in ...
Feldenkrais: My students are just learning “a bag of tricks.”
I just bumped into an anecdote in my personal notes about Feldenkrais and his thoughts on the training programs he was teaching in the United States from the mi...
Feldenkrais® and Harassment: How Would Lawsuits Work?
This post started out as an update to my article on allegations of abuse in the Feldenkrais Guild training community. But then I decided to publish it as a stan...
Deep Work, Meditation & Feldenkrais
Deep Work There are three books that I have returned to over and over again in the last five years or so. One of the most important is "Deep Work*" by Cal Newpo...