Different ways to reach for something
This past week I taught a class called “arms to your hips” but, as with many of the names of the Feldenkrais lessons the titles are not always a true reflection of the functional outcome of the lesson. It was, in my mind, about reaching, turning and transitioning from lying to side sitting. While teaching the lesson, […]
Why is it difficult to tell right from left?
I was intrigued by a recent article on BBC.com titled, Why some people can’t tell left from right. According to scientists, the ability to discriminate left and right involves several high-level skills such as memory, language, visual and spatial processing and mental rotation. Whether you are left-handed or right-handed seems to be determined by four regions […]
Do less and learn more
Moshe Feldenkrais wrote a small seminal pamphlet on learning called “Learning to Learn” which he developed as a guide to accompany recorded and published Awareness Through Movement lessons. In each class that I teach one or more of the elements he discussed surfaces. Probably none is more important, and a part of each and every […]
Being in Community
A community is a group of people with common interests, values or culture. In the course of our personal and work lives we typically belong to more than one community built around common work, shared love of music or literature, group activities or outings; the list is endless. One of my communities is the group […]
Smiling in the Spring
Spring is my favourite season of the year. It is getting warmer; the days are longer and things are budding and growing. Trees, flowers, bushes are coming to life again, the birds are chirping and there is a feeling of everything waking up and emerging after hibernating. The one drawback of course is that allergies resurface and […]
Resiliency
Resiliency, again. Resilience, the ability to bounce back from difficult situations. As the Omicron wave swept through the world, and BC during the end of 2021 and into January 2022, we were again required to show our stuff, to hunker down in order to get through yet another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the last […]
The relationship between chocolate and Feldenkrais.
I have always been very heart warmed at the feeling of community among students attending our Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® classes. Students talk to each other, share stories of how they have incorporated movements into their daily lives, share resources and connections and help each other enter and leave classes. Several years ago, a tradition […]
Keep your favourite Feldenkrais lessons
I have often been asked by students for tricks on how to remember parts of, or a complete lesson. So a few years ago I started making audio recordings of classes as I taught them for anyone to listen to in order to redo their favourite lessons or explore new ones. I now have an extensive […]
The power of Feldenkrais, experienced first-hand – twice!
I don’t need to be convinced about the features and benefits of the Feldenkrais Method®as I have been immersed in in the practice and teaching of it for more than 20 years. But this week I had two personal experiences that validated for me its positive impact. One evening while out for a walk, I […]
Back to school, with a difference
“For proper functioning, (the) nervous structure needs full activity followed by full rest” – Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais as noted in Chapter 18 in Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning, edited and illustrated by Tiffany Sankary. In each Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® class, movement sequences are interspersed with rests. Not exactly the rest time that we […]
