If some higher God-like source were to tell me I could only teach one movement lesson for the rest of my life it would be this: Teaching people how to move from standing on two feet to lying on the ground completely flat on their backs and then to [...]
I wrote a piece a while back that featured the founder of Contact Dance Improvisation speaking his truths about human movement. This video shows a room of contact dancers 'playing' the way they play, and they have a very brave and young participant too! Check it out and keep reading.... [...]
Click here to re-tweet "How to be Comfortable Sitting on The Ground. Step 1 - Lengthen Those Tight Hamstrings." This morning I taught a Feldenkrais Movement Class (aka: "ATM", or Awareness Through Movement) at a local bistro, Alta Bistro. One of the managers loves ATM, and he really wanted [...]
"It's appalling how we disuse the body." Says Steve Paxton, the founder of contact dance improvisation. I've written about what he speaks about, his ethos if you will, in a blog post from last year titled "Would you drive a Ferrarri that way?." Check out the video below. If [...]
. Click here to re-tweet What exactly IS lower back love anyways? (& why the picture of the bullfighter) Humans have this unique quality called bipedalism. We are upright creatures and we move ourselves from point A to point B on tiny little bases called feet. This means that [...]
Imagine This (or better yet, TRY THIS!) Take a chair and start to tip it such that it is only balancing on two of its legs. Now keep tipping. Then, take your hand away. If you don't catch it in time, and bring it back to its other two [...]
Click here to Re-Tweet about Re-Routing My Wiring-Back to Whole-Self Neuroplasticity (and not having to pay for parking) I've been away in Seattle for a few days, doing a few Feldenkrais sessions with my main Feldy mentor Jeff Haller. This last weekend's few lessons were good for a few [...]
Every now and then, I come across a person that I get a smitten with. Their writing, ideas, art, creativity and basically their guts to do what they love, go for it, and never look back. I've met a lot of these people and am blessed to have them [...]
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 [...]
(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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