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  • Visualizing your Skeleton

    ByLaura Yedwab

    Good movement requires that we use our skeleton precisely and accurately for support. Unfortunately, it is difficult for us to feel our skeleton and it goes out of our awareness.  So, I love anything that helps us visualize our skeleton. In this cute, short (2 minute) video, Mia Hurst demonstrates what happens when she slouches.  We can see…

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    Neil Young’s Experience with Feldenkrais®

    ByLaura Yedwab

    One of the most unique aspects of the Feldenkrais® method is that we work with the whole person.  Unlike most approaches, the place that hurts is not the “problem.”  Rather we study how someone moves in their daily life (e.g. walking, sitting, and standing) and then help them learn to do those activities without putting unnecessary strain on their bodies. Neil…

  • An “Aha” Moment

    ByLaura Yedwab

      Learning is at the heart of the Feldenkrais® Method. A good session has many small and some large “aha” moments.  Recently, I wrote up this example of an “aha” moment as part of my job staffing the IOPS Academy, a 18 month advanced Feldenkrais® Training, but thought the readers of this blog would also enjoy it….

  • The Feldenkrais® Method Explained

    ByLaura Yedwab

    Susan Hillier has a wonderful article that explains the Feldenkrais® Method.  When I read it, I though, “Wow, I wish I had written that”.  Here is what she says: The Feldenkrais® Method is a way of exploring movement, posture and breathing through hands-on touch, used by dancers, musicians, athletes, actors and people living with and rehabilitating…

  • The Brain’s Way of Healing

    ByLaura Yedwab

    The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable discoveries and recoveries from the frontiers of neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge, M.D. was released only six weeks ago and is already a NY Times bestseller. It recognizes Moshe Feldenkrais as one of the world’s first “neuroplasticians”. The book does a great job of describing the Feldenkrais® method through the…

  • Got Feldenkrais®?

    ByLaura Yedwab

    Lavinia Plonka has published some interesting videos.  A really good one that promotes the Feldenkrais® method is called “Got Feldenkrais®”.   You can view it by clicking on the picture below: My favorite part is when she says that the side-effects include: improved balance, sense of relaxation, increased optimism, better range of motion, and increased vitality These…