One word: Learning.
An Awareness Through Movement® lesson. Photo by Rosalie O'Conner.
Two words: Neural rewiring
Three words: Refining Our Awareness
Four words: Learning how to Learn
Four words: Increasing Our Self Connection
Five words: Transformation thru Undoing Stuck Habits
Six words: Expanding horizons thru Learning and Awareness
SEE
THE GLORIES OF FELDENKRAIS
FOR A HUGE RANGE OF POSSIBLE BENEFITS
- This is a system of mind/body whole self learning
based on how we learned
when we were a genius,
which is to say,
how we learned to roll over and sit up and crawl and walk and talk when we were babies. - This is a way of learning how to learn,
based on the primacy of movement
in life in general
and human life in particular. - Our brains are set up to learn,
and moving is the most primary way
our brains were set into motion (literally and figuratively) to learn,
and learning by moving with awareness
is the quickest and sweetest way
to radically improve almost anything in our lives. - We are alive and amazing and
have a brain
that loves to learn. - By going slow
and minimizing effort
and looking to reduce unnecessary effort
and concentrating on the process rather than achievement,
we can radically improve
the quality of our movement and our being. - This work,
being about learning,
consists of lessons
and these lessons can be with verbal instruction,
as Awareness Through Movement® lessons,
or touch guided lessons,
called Functional Integration® - A man named Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984)
had a smart and curious nature
and loved sports and thinking
and wrecked his knees and
set about learning how to heal himself. - He succeeded.
- The ways he discovered involved returning
to a discovery and playfulness
as well as understanding that we function as mind/body unities
and that connection and relationship
and inner functioning/organization were what brought about change. - He discovered,
and created ways for others to discover,
inner learnings and possibilities of transformation,
for both "body" and our whole lives,
that had previously been considered "impossible." - Human beings,
more than any other creature on this planet,
are dependant on
learning
to become who they are in life. - Some of what we learn is stupendous,
to walk, talk, play dodge ball, find a mate and
some of what we learn is "bad habits,"
ways of moving and interacting and thinking
and feeling that
contradict
our having a rich and full life. - A man named Moshe Feldenkrais, 1904-1984,
discovered, in the course of healing his own wrecked knees,
that by focusing on the
LEARNING
that takes place in the brain and the brain/body,
he could achieve spectacular results
in people as varied as children with cerebral palsy
and star professional basketball players
or world class musicians. - Freedom from being stuck
in habits and patterns that aren't working,
can be achieved by
learning OPTIONS
in ways we move, think and go about living. - This system can seem "slow,"
because it focuses on the little places
that are missing in our inner connection and awareness,
and yet, because it fills in these missing areas,
is much "faster" at achieving
real and organic and long term improvement
and transformation.
One sentence:
Two sentences:
Three sentences:
Four sentences:
Five sentences:
Books on the Feldenkrais Way, c/o the Feldenkrais Guild Bookshop
See, if you haven't yet:
U Tube Short Wonderful Video on the Feldenkrais Way
Or
Wikipedia, on the Feldenkrais Method
What is Wake Up Feldenkrais?
One word:
Feldenkrais®.
Two words:
Waking Up
Three words:
Learnng New Options
Four words:
Expanding joy and effectiveness
Five words:
The Work of Byron Katie
Six words:
Transforming Lives thru Learning and Awareness
See More at
What is Wake Up Feldenkrais?
The Feldenkrais Method is a learning system
that
enables people
to transform from
poor to fair,
from fair to good,
from good to great,
from great to greater.
In the words of Moshe Feldenkrais:
"Making the impossible possible,
the possible easy,
and
the easy elegant."
In what?
Traditionally the Feldenkrais Method has been used by
people
who want to improve and transform the
quality of their movement in life,
from a cerebral palsy child who has very little useful movement,
to an adult with a sore shoulder or back,
or someone getting older and frustrated to no longer be able to do some activity they used to love when they were younger,
to someone who
excels
at music, sports, yoga ,
even at a world class level,
and wants to become even more excellent.
It has also been widely experienced
that Feldenkrais work
increases everyday joy,
decreases depression and anxiety,
and can
radically improve thinking
and problem solving abilities.
With an in-depth exploration of this work,
people often realize suprising
and dramatic changes
in their life,
changes they didn't even know
they were hungry to make.
Moshe Feldenkrais:
"What I'm after isn't flexible bodies,
but
flexible brains.
What I'm after
is to restore each person
to their human dignity."
How is this done?
This is a learning system,
and brains learn best when awareness is heightened,
pain is minimized,
interest and curiosity is heightened,
novelty is encouraged,
and pleasure and success are ongoing.
This system is about increasing our options,
in moving, thinking and feeling,
about experiencing,
in real, physical and mental experiments,
how we can be more than we were but a few minutes before.
In the Feldenkrais Method
there are two categories of work, roughly.
One, called
Awareness Through Movement® lessons,
An Awareness Through Movement® lesson. Photo by Rosalie O'Conner.
involves verbal instructions,
to which a person (often in a group) follows
slow and interesting movements that
heighten awareness,
decrease stress,
increase pleasure and ease in moving and thinking,
and connect us more to our
here and now
physical and mental selves.
For upcoming classes, see Current Classes and Offerings
The other, called
Functional Integration® lessons,
involves touch guided sessions
on a low and firm but comfortable table.
The client/ student is fully clothed
and is moved in
gentle and
interesting and
pleasurable
ways
that reduce pain
and increase mobility,
self confidence, and
leave a sense of a shift to new level of organization.
that
enables people
to transform from
poor to fair,
from fair to good,
from good to great,
from great to greater.
In the words of Moshe Feldenkrais:
"Making the impossible possible,
the possible easy,
and
the easy elegant."
In what?
Traditionally the Feldenkrais Method has been used by
people
who want to improve and transform the
quality of their movement in life,
from a cerebral palsy child who has very little useful movement,
to an adult with a sore shoulder or back,
or someone getting older and frustrated to no longer be able to do some activity they used to love when they were younger,
to someone who
excels
at music, sports, yoga ,
even at a world class level,
and wants to become even more excellent.
It has also been widely experienced
that Feldenkrais work
increases everyday joy,
decreases depression and anxiety,
and can
radically improve thinking
and problem solving abilities.
With an in-depth exploration of this work,
people often realize suprising
and dramatic changes
in their life,
changes they didn't even know
they were hungry to make.
Moshe Feldenkrais:
"What I'm after isn't flexible bodies,
but
flexible brains.
What I'm after
is to restore each person
to their human dignity."
How is this done?
This is a learning system,
and brains learn best when awareness is heightened,
pain is minimized,
interest and curiosity is heightened,
novelty is encouraged,
and pleasure and success are ongoing.
This system is about increasing our options,
in moving, thinking and feeling,
about experiencing,
in real, physical and mental experiments,
how we can be more than we were but a few minutes before.
In the Feldenkrais Method
there are two categories of work, roughly.
One, called
Awareness Through Movement® lessons,
An Awareness Through Movement® lesson. Photo by Rosalie O'Conner.
involves verbal instructions,
to which a person (often in a group) follows
slow and interesting movements that
heighten awareness,
decrease stress,
increase pleasure and ease in moving and thinking,
and connect us more to our
here and now
physical and mental selves.
For upcoming classes, see Current Classes and Offerings
The other, called
Functional Integration® lessons,
involves touch guided sessions
on a low and firm but comfortable table.
The client/ student is fully clothed
and is moved in
gentle and
interesting and
pleasurable
ways
that reduce pain
and increase mobility,
self confidence, and
leave a sense of a shift to new level of organization.
These lessons are as pleasurable as a massage,
but are for the brain as well as the body,
for the Whole Self, really,
expanding your sense of yourself,
opening new ways of moving,
and thinking,
and feeling.
Opening you to freedom
to begin to become more of what you
really want to be.
For prices and details,
see,
the end of the essay on
Back, Neck, and Shoulder Pain, One on One Lessons
or see the Posting:
Functional Integration, Amazing and Transformative Lessons
but are for the brain as well as the body,
for the Whole Self, really,
expanding your sense of yourself,
opening new ways of moving,
and thinking,
and feeling.
Opening you to freedom
to begin to become more of what you
really want to be.
For prices and details,
see,
the end of the essay on
Back, Neck, and Shoulder Pain, One on One Lessons
or see the Posting:
Functional Integration, Amazing and Transformative Lessons
For another option,
of how to understand Awareness Through Movement
and
Functional Integrations,
see:
Feldenkrais.com.
You can also try the Awareness Through Movement lessons,
in a mini-form,
via the computer cartoon program
Desk Trainer.
Here the lessons are 5 to 8 minutes long and the first one is free. The program costs $30 per year.
In this very blog
there are lots of instructions for small
and medium length lessons.
Just
click on the label: Movement Lesson
and a batch will come up for you
to read
and have some
learning time.
There are a bunch of articles in this blog,
and at Feldenkrais Guild Articles,
and at almost all the Feldie Sites listed in the sidebar to the left.
See especially the slightly difficult,
but worth the trouble, articles of Dennis Leri, my trainer, at Semiophysics
BOOKS:
The best to start with is Relaxercise
Go to the end of their list of books by practitioners.
Actually, while you're there A Guide to Awareness Through Movement, has detailed pictures and instructions, and
A Busy Person's Guide to Easier Movement
has gobs of short, useful lessons.
Also wonderful,
and with a GREAT explanation of the Method:
Awareness Heals.
Then would come: Awareness Through Movement by Moshe Feldenkrais, himself.
And also by Moshe, and quite wonderful,
The Elusive Obvious,
which is what the Feldenkrais Method is all about. (I.e. We live in gravity. We have two legs. We are tall, cylindrical beings,
and so on.)
CDs and DVDs as well as books, via:
See Feldenkrais Resources.
Achieving Excellence.
Excellent CD on necks, joints, backs, and DVDs on Back, and Special Needs Children:
The Anat Baniel Method.
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