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. [...]
Sheryl Field is the founder of The Field Center: For Children’s Integrated Development. What she does and the remarkable impact she has made on the lives of many families who were given very little hope for their children’s disabilities must be shared with other families in similar situations. Video Clip [...]
Lifting Real Weight Intelligently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNmrPcZ1mg Many don't realize that Moshe Feldenkrais, the founder of the Feldenkrais Method was at one point a very talented athlete, laborer and martial arts expert. He understood what it meant to lift weight. REAL WEIGHT. Proportional distribution of muscular tone, optional transmission of force [...]
Yes. It is a sad thing. I sit as I type this. You are most likely sitting as you read this. Whoever you send this to will most likely be 'sitting' when they open up their email. Whether eating, working, waiting, watching 'screen's of the many sorts and then [...]
These words were read to me and my classmates years ago by one of our Feldenkrais trainers. I carry it with me in my daytimer all the time and read it often when need be. I felt it might be a nice way to say goodbye to 2010 and [...]
Click here to re-tweet "Dr. Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing explains how the human system can heal and self-regulate from traumatic events." Why Do We Humans Get "Stuck" in our Traumatic Events While Animals in the Wild Don't? There is much to be learned from our fuzzy [...]
Want to understand the simplicity of a Feldenkrais Movement Lesson? Just go to the simple foundations of human development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ko7U1pLlg Ready for your first class? This is a montage of a little baby named Liv doing what babies do during their first year of life. It is these first [...]
One of the things I am really excited about is bringing in other bloggers and highlighting them on The Human Groove. It seems my generation (those born somewheres between 1975/73ish to 1982/85ish) are seeing the importance of sharing, collaborating and not being afraid to trade our secrets. Openly. I [...]
This article was originally written for a magazine that focuses on outdoor sports and mountain life. We never ended up using it. But I like it and a few others have too. So thought I'd repurpose for my own site! * * * In the spring of 2010 I [...]
(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 [...]
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