Feldenkrais

  • 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…

  • Adding Hips to our Self Image

    ByLaura Yedwab

    If  you were to draw yourself as a stick figure, would your figure look more like the left or right person?  Moshe Feldenkrais begins his Awareness through Movement Book saying: Each of us speaks, moves, thinks, and feels in a different way, each according to the image of himself that he has built up over the…

  • Ground, Grounding, Grounded

    ByLaura Yedwab

    Grounded Power, True Reversibility I just spent a wonderful 5 days in Jeff Haller’s advanced training: Ground, Grounding, Grounded, Discovering True Reversibility.  The theme was how to move in a way that we don’t “fall.”  For example, often there is a way that people walk where on either the left or right side, with each step there…