personally trained by Feldenkrais (photo enclosed, do not bend)
I was having a WhatsApp conversation with a friend of mine recently and we were both giggling like kids about the tendency for some people in the Feldenkrais wo...
Category: Feldenkrais
soften your spine and chest (short video)
Every so often, people in my private membership group will ask me to clarify the movements in a Feldenkrais session. And sometimes, I will put the answer in vid...
When Feldenkrais Got Mean
"Regardless of how much I love the work and think that it can be a useful tool for development, my basic take on Feldenkrais (the man) is that he was fairly hig...
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...
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...
Feldenkrais Was Wrong About Meditation
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 ...