When you attend an Awareness Through Movement class you lie on the floor and follow instructions for very precise actions from your teacher, but she or he will not be showing you what to do.This is so that you can…
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By way of an example, have a look at this piece How To Sit Ergonomically At Work. It is a good article, it is mostly accurate, and yet, viewed from a different angle, it is also completely wrong. The wrongness is…
I came across this quotation a few years ago now, but it is still very timely: “There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision…
“In poor posture the muscles are doing a part of the job of the bones.” Moshe Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement, 1980 Correct “Posture” versus Dynamic “Acture” When I first started using the term ‘dynamic stability’ to describe the fluid relationship with…
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” Niels Bohr (Physicist)* Pain is something of an issue for teachers of the Feldenkrais Method. First of all…
Grace is one of the benefits that I offer to entice potential students to come and try out my classes, but I suspect for many people achieving physical grace may seem too distant a possibility. It is a lovely word,…
Awareness Through Movement® = Well-Being Through Well-Doing It was thirty years ago that I limped into an Awareness Through Movement class at the Brighton Natural Health Centre, stricken with an unexpected bout of sciatica, and strode out free of pain six…