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

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More thoughts on Autonomy

June 8th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Awareness, Choice, Feldenkrais, autonomy

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

My previous post on Empowering Autonomy has generated interesting and worthwhile comments, pointing out areas where my meaning and sometimes my thinking were less clear than they could have been, or where I could usefully expand on something. These comments seem to bear out my earlier observation that we each understand the world through our [...]

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Empowering Autonomy

June 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments · , Awareness, Feldenkrais, somatic organization

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Understanding Feldenkrais

The Feldenkrais Method serves many purposes. It can help you learn to move more easily and fluidly, to lessen chronic pain and discomfort, to moderate limitations created by neurological damage, to perform better at many different tasks, to heal old emotional traumas, and to understand yourself and your ways of being in the world more [...]

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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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Which way is up?

January 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Awareness, Feldenkrais, Perception, balance, being grounded, somatic organization

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Being Grounded

There are few questions in life more important than “Which way is up?” We joke about that, describing someone who doesn’t grasp what’s going on around him by saying “he doesn’t know which way is up.” The question, though, is one that you really do need to answer almost constantly, whenever you’re awake and upright. [...]

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