Feldenkrais Licensing Programs
Feldenkrais Training Programs Are Licensing Schemes Over the years, I have heard many Feldenkrais trainers say that going through a four-year training is necces...
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Pain Relief Without Feldenkrais
About two weeks ago, I started feeling strain and pain in my right thumb. Not throbbing pain or anything, just intermittent strain with occasional pain. Enough ...
Not Certified By Feldenkrais
A title can look official and sound official. It can have a shiny gold seal that feels good to the touch. But then one day you look at the actual history and th...
Rethink Intensive Feldenkrais Trainings
They Were for Moshe, Not You The original Feldenkrais training model was not created for your nervous system. It was created for Moshe’s travel schedule. The Sa...
Awareness Cannot Be Forced
One of the mistakes I have made over the years is believing that if I could just show people facts and patterns clearly enough, they would see things differentl...
When Comfort and Routine Causes Suffering
Comfort can cause suffering. That sounds odd, but it is very often true. Nassim Taleb captured the idea in this quote: “In nature, we never repeat the same moti...
Feldenkrais Alexander Yanai: What Are They?
A big part of Feldenkrais history is a collection of lessons known as the "Alexander Yanai sessions." You may sometimes hear Feldenkrais practitioners refer to ...
Moshe Feldenkrais At CERN. FI Demonstration. Audio Restored!
This is rare 1981 archival footage of Moshe Feldenkrais teaching at CERN (a European Organization for Nuclear Research) is shared for educational, historical, a...
The Non-Habitual Non-Habitual
The same somatics session is a different session when you do it in a new context. I didn’t learn it from a Feldenkrais teacher. I learned it from a bunch of col...
Somatic Simplification: Less Noise, More Freedom
In November of 2024, after the U.S. election, I began blocking news websites. You already know why, yes? The toxicity, anger and fear from all sides was increas...