Moshe Feldenkrais writes to the senior citizen, “Our object is quite different, radically different, we want to help you in a way so that your last years maybe the best of your life, because we’ll help you not only to restore mobility, mobility to move, to take care of yourself, to be independent, and get rid of some of the illness which interfere with your life, but we’ll allow you to get growing again. It means to do some of the things that maybe at the age of 20 you did not know how to do, you could not do that, and you let things because of the difficulties of life, you let it pass, you thought one day when I’ll have time I’ll do it, and you never did ...

You rely on your life experience, on the intelligence you acquired through your experience, that you won’t use brutal, idiotic force, like some of the young people do, and ruin their health forever. You, being intelligent with long experience, would know that there is a great difference between learning and doing … So, from the start forget the competitiveness of your young days because they ruined your health before, and now they are quite impossible.
Now, you will go slow, you will pay attention, not to do the things nicely, not to compete with yourself, and not to compete with anybody. You’ll just be doing the things simply, carefully, easily, and the rest leave it to me …” 

Moti Nativ has designed many workshops and classes for seniors, based on his own experience of age, body, and mental changes, to better his way of life and the people he teaches – predominantly now active “elders,” averaging mainly in their 80s, typically about 50 attendees per week. He has learned that Awareness through Movement – paying attention -- can improve at an older age. His lessons have become a kind of laboratory of research in the Feldenkrais Method specific to this community. 

His ATM® lessons will include being on the floor, sitting on chairs, and in standing. He will discuss ideas for approaching such learners, and perspectives relative to aging and mental issues that arise in these lessons.