Allowing Resistance to Melt

Resistance creates a diminished potential for action while simultaneously wasting energy. What happens if it goes away?

How to Fall In Love: More on Melting Resistance

Read more about falling in love with life.

Where are you headed?

It’s not movement that we want to improve, it's what we get from it: More ease, more efficiency, more power, less pain, better relationships, fewer walls, less shame about who we are, more acceptance, more smiles, less inner contraction, more breath, better posture.

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On Health

What does it mean to be healthy? One of Dr. Feldenkrais's most provocative articles.

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Excerpt from The Potent Self

In my opinion, the best book on the Method. If you are interested in where human learning can take you and why it is faulty in the first place, this is the book for you. (Picture of Moshe practicing Judo.)

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Excerpt from Higher Judo: Groundwork

A brilliant excerpt from Dr. Feldenkrias’s book, Higher Judo, on dynamic stability, self-use, and more.

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Embracing Mistakes

True self-education is about making mistakes, not being told what to do.

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A Note on Aesthetics, or, What is Correct Movement?

How to answer the question, “How should I move?” and “Am I doing it right?”

A new path out of anxiety

To create real change means to create a wholly responsive use of the self.

Invent Your Own World

While Moshe Feldenkrais worked with improving movement, his goal was awareness: The ability to use effective action in one's life.

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On the Self Image

Moshe says we want to know our self-image so that, “I am really alive. This is what I feel. This is how I would like it to be and I am really like this. And, if I am really like this, then I love myself. I love my habits. I love my face. I love my behind. I love all of my actions as they are.”

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Help! I Breathe Wrong!

If we were to breathe in the same way all the time, it would be like we had a repetitive script for every conversation. The solution is to have adaptable breath.

Striving for Perfect Posture

It it really true, the more vertical, the better?

What is Balance?

Balance is a constantly changing state of potential energy. How can we feel potential if we are always thrown off balance?

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Let go to let in

After years of Feldenkrais, one of the most important, and uncomfortable, things to contemplate is an awareness of what I don't know.

Ban useless effort

Dr. Feldenkrais once said that the point of his work was to bring about awareness in action, which means the ability to make contact with your muscles, your skeleton, and the environment all at the same time.

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