What is the Feldenkrais Method?

Full, dynamic living is linked to our ability to experience and learn on our own.

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Foundations of Feldenkrais

How to approach this Method: Curiosity, awareness, comfort.

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Your Core is Not Your Master

If you can contract the abdominal muscles strongly, it doesn't mean you can use them efficiently.

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Five Ways to Release the Upper Back

Five quick things to do right now at your desk to unwind tension in your upper back.

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How Change Happens

Anyone who's dieted or tried to quit smoking or drinking knows that it's very difficult to will yourself to change.

Brief biography of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, 1904-1984, physicist, engineer, Judo master, teacher

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The Centipede and Reverse Effort

How trying harder makes us succeed less.

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How to Learn

Ten points on what it means to learn.
“I do not intend to teach you, but to enable you to learn.” -- Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais

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Track it to change it

It’s not just big data. We, too, can track information and tweak our nervous system.

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Listen to Your Body

How unconscious priorities damage our health.

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Five Best Calming Strategies

Easy ways to activate the parasympathetic system when you’re on the go.

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Learning How to Learn

The best overview of the method’s origins and development.

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Why Robots Fall Down

by Lawrence Wm Goldfarb, PhD
A deep look at kinesthetic perceptions and how the Method works. Presented to the American Society for Cybernetics.

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The Feldenkrais Method and Dynamic Systems

by Mark Reese, PhD
A precise explanation of the technical aspects of the Method.

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Dementia and Living in the Moment

The challenges of living in the moment and how to face hard truths when it fades.

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Free Your Hips and Low Back

Smooth, easy hips in five minutes.

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Freedom from Compulsion

Sensing myself more fully helped me become less neurotic.

Why Do Feldenkrais: In Their Own Words

Why do people around the world do Feldenkrais?

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Willpower vs. Compassion

Compassion has been shown to increase perseverance on difficult tasks by over 30 percent.

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Where did my strength go?

When we feel weak, it is often because our muscles are constantly firing and we can’t access our energy.

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