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Articles: General Applications

Why Limit Yourself?

As a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm for almost 20 years, I’ve worked with many people in my practice who…   Continued...

Author: Katrin Smithback    |    Filed under: Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

What Would Moshe Do?

“What would Moshe do?” In this month’s spotlight of those who trained directly with Moshe Feldenkrais, I spoke with…   Continued...

Author: Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  Martial Arts  

If Structural Limitations aren't as they Seem,

What Else is Possible?


The Information Age seems to have devolved into the Miss-information Age as we are inundated with…   Continued...

Author: Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  Functional Integration  General Applications  

Welcome to the World of Conscious Living

When I think of functioning fully, I think: “How can this person experience becoming more alive?” I find this…   Continued...

Author: Annie R. Thoe    |    Filed under: Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

Using Awareness Through Movement® Lessons to Change Your Life

I developed and taught several sessions of a graduate workshop on “The Art of Change: Somatic Awareness and Systems…   Continued...

Author: Kathryn Goldman Schuyler    |    Filed under: Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

Making Space for the Unfamiliar


Margie has been coming to private sessions in my office for several weeks to get…   Continued...

Author: Maureen McHugh, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

Transformations: The Story of Peggy D.

Sometimes patients come in for physical therapy, fix the problem, and leave. Case closed.

Other times, their lives are…   Continued...

Author: Greg Hullstrung, P.T. Co-Founder, H&D Physical Therapy    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  Balance and Falling  Chronic Pain  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

The Process of Functional Integration®

“How can something so gentle work so powerfully?”

“You hardly did anything; how could that cause the changes that…   Continued...

Author: Ralph Strauch, Ph.D.    |    Filed under: Functional Integration  General Applications  

The Gift of Feldenkrais® Training*

Growing up, I never really enjoyed being physical. I was the kid who was always picked last for team…   Continued...

Author: Jodi Freedman, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  Sports  

The Feldenkrais Method for Actors

St. Cyr: I’ve always loved a particular quote of Dr. Feldenkrais, “If you know what you are doing, you…   Continued...

Author: Tommie St. Cyr    |    Filed under: Introduction  General Applications  The Performing Arts  Voice Training  

The Feldenkrais Method and Music

The Feldenkrais Method has been very helpful to me as a teacher and as a performer. My first exposure…   Continued...

Author: Linda Case    |    Filed under: Introduction  General Applications  The Performing Arts  

The Feldenkrais Method - An Overview

The Feldenkrais Method, developed through 40 years of research by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, is a revolutionary approach to understanding…   Continued...

Author: Alan Questel    |    Filed under: Introduction  General Applications  

Stress, Learning and the Feldenkrais Method®

Life is a bowl of cherries, if you are a bowl filled with cherries. Otherwise there are elements of…   Continued...

Author: Chris Elms, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Chronic Pain  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  Recovery  Stress  

Learning about Mind & Body:

Research is One Way


A 1964 article by Moshe Feldenkrais entitled “Mind and Body” is now available in…   Continued...

Author: Pat Buchanan, PhD, ATC, PT, GCFT    |    Filed under: Introduction  General Applications  

Paradigm for a New Millennium

In the dawning of this new era of instant communication, we move from one frenetic alert to another as…   Continued...

Author: Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  Functional Integration  General Applications  Recovery  

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The Art of Slowing Down: A Sense-able Approach to Running Faster


So many people run because…   Continued...

Filed under: Introduction  Balance and Falling  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

Neuroplasticity and The Feldenkrais Method®

Your brain loves to learn. In fact it thrives on acquiring new skills such as playing a musical instrument,…   Continued...

Author: Eileen Bach-y-Rita, GCFP    |    Filed under: Creativity  The Elder Citizen  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  The Performing Arts  Recovery  Stress  

What would Moshe Do? The Limitations of Certainty

In this month’s Spotlight on those who trained directly with Moshe Feldenkrais, I spoke with Russell Delman, whose interest…   Continued...

Author: Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  General Applications  

Movement First

“Find a comfortable position to rest in.” A dance teacher quietly goes from leaning on knees and elbows to…   Continued...

Author: Prisca Winslow Bradley, GCFP    |    Filed under: Balance and Falling  Creativity  Flexibility  General Applications  The Performing Arts  Recovery  

Compassion & Balance Inside & Out

There’s a paradigm shift happening today. More and more people are realizing we “think” with our bodies. This shift…   Continued...

Author: Catherine Mitchell, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  Children  The Classroom  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  Flexibility  General Applications  

Improve to Move Yourself

For the past few years, it has been my great pleasure to teach weekly Awareness Through Movement® lessons at…   Continued...

Author: Michael Carmody    |    Filed under: Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

It's a Funny Thing This Aging Thing

This article was inspired by a symposium held this past November 2009 in Paris, France. The symposium looked at…   Continued...

Author: Irene Gutteridge, GCFP    |    Filed under: The Elder Citizen  General Applications  

Feeding, Fighting, Sex and the Feldenkrais Method

Movement is Life: this is a big picture.

A curse and blessing of being a $FELDREG$ practitioner is finding…   Continued...

Author: Chris Elms, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Enriching Daily Life  Flexibility  General Applications  Head, Neck and Jaw  

Featured Region: Northern California/ Northern Nevada Region

The Northern California/Northern Nevada Region of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America [FGNA] stretches from the Oregon Border to…   Continued...

Author: Paulette Dolin, GCFP    |    Filed under: The Elder Citizen  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

Experience Learning at the 2009 Conference

Experience the Feldenkrais Method® in Forest Grove, Oregon this summer!


Learning How to Learn:…   Continued...

Filed under: The Classroom  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

The Empty Cup Calls the Teapot


“All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.
Yet…   Continued...

Author: Tom Rankin, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

Embodying Life: An Interview with Russell Delman

Russell Delman provides fresh insight into how the Feldenkrais Method® can meet the needs of a changing world. In…   Continued...

Author: Cynthia Allen, GCFP    |    Filed under: Chronic Pain  Creativity  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

The Feldenkrais Method® for Effortless Riding


How many times have you gotten on your horse and thought, “I am so stiff!”…   Continued...

Author: Wendy Murdoch, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  General Applications  Sports  

The Feldenkrais Method® in Eating Disorder Recovery

“The domain of core self seems to be where psychology crosses paths with brains and bodies.” 
-Roger…   Continued...

Author: Abigail Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Children  General Applications  Recovery  

A Dance of Awareness

(Practitioners Mary Lou Tromanhauser and Julie Francis explore the dance that is the Feldenkrais Method®)


…   Continued...

Author: Julie Francis, GCFP & Mary Lou Tromanhauser, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Chronic Pain  The Elder Citizen  Enriching Daily Life  Functional Integration  General Applications  Recovery  

Save the Date!

Join us at the 2010 Feldenkrais Method® Annual Conference

“Less is More”


Loyola University Lake Shore…   Continued...

Filed under: Introduction  Creativity  General Applications  Recovery  

Coming to Our Senses in Portland

…   Continued...

Author: Suzane Van Amburgh, FGNA Conference Coordinator    |    Filed under: Introduction  ATM Lessons  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  

A personal tale: changing focus and learing more

Seven years ago, I was recovering from a serious injury and struggling to get back to 100% function. I…   Continued...

Author: Irene Gutteridge, BSc, GCFP    |    Filed under: Introduction  Enriching Daily Life  General Applications  Recovery  

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