Composing Experience

Perceiving and interacting with the world around you — a Feldenkrais perspective

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Entries from February 20th, 2009

Defining the Feldenkrais Method

February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · , Feldenkrais, Perception

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Understanding Feldenkrais

To explore issues around understanding the Feldenkrais Method we need some definition of what the Method consists of. I don’t believe a formal definition is feasible; instead I’m going to suggest somewhat loose and fluid boundaries to the territory that contains it. Not everyone will agree with my choices, and that is part of the problem [...]

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Ways of knowing Feldenkrais

February 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Feldenkrais, Perception

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Understanding Feldenkrais

For the past quarter-century I’ve been engaged in the practice of the Feldenkrais Method, a revolutionary approach to human development created by Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli physicist, engineer, and deep thinker about the nature of being human. Over that time the number of Feldenkrais practitioners has grown, from less than one hundred when I began to study [...]

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The importance of pelvic flexibility

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Awareness, Effort, balance, being grounded

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Being Grounded

The experience of being grounded comes from having a clear proprioceptive sense of the path of support from the ground beneath you through your feet. When your body weight is carried by a balanced, relaxed skeleton the supportive forces pass cleanly from one bone to next along the path, making that path of support relatively [...]

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