This post is Step 3, in a series of posts titled: Nervous System Cleansing 101 Step 1 is here, Step 2 is here. * * * The moment you see the word breath, or breathe - do you do just that? Take a breath, or starting breathing? It's different [...]
If you haven't checked out Step 1: Nervous System Cleansing 101: Step 1 - Orientation, be sure to do so. If you don't, this won't make that much sense. I'm going to keep this post shorter so you can catch up with the first step of orientation. Part 3 is [...]
Stubbing my toe in Berkeley I was walking quite fast through the residential area of Berkeley, California, this past October. I was wearing my open-toed Birkenstock sandals when BAM! “Ouch, #!^*…Oh, that REALLY hurts...” An uneven slab of sidewalk had put an abrupt stop to the forward motion of my second toe [...]
I think it might have been in June last year when one of my teachers said: "The somatic practices need to be more refined." These seven words really, REALLY, got me thinking. In 7 months of thinking and asking other people - my clients, colleagues, teachers - it seems unanimous: Yep. Refinement [...]
John Kucera speaks of his experiences with The Feldenkrais Method and how it has brought him greater body awareness in his training and while racing on snow. In the summer of 2004 the Canadian Alpine Ski acquired [...]
For Pianists and ANYONE who sits and uses their arms and hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UohDzxnEqHc Andrew Gibbons, Classical Pianist and Feldenkrais Practitioner in New York City, describes the process of discovering whole body awareness from a Feldenkrais perspective and how to produce better musical sound by finding greater skeletal support in sitting. This [...]
(This post will be one of many to come that will fit into the “All Things Feldenkrais: The Amherst Diaries” feature which you see on the right side of the page. Here you will find writings, ideas, practical application, video, audio and 'all things Feldenkrais'. Moshe Feldenkrais' theories and principles [...]
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