Join us to re-discover your innate strength and capacity to learn.
Copyright © International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden.
Register for just one class or all four December classes.
We’ll investigate movement patterns which are the building blocks for sitting, standing , and walking.
Take your discoveries into your dance or other movement practice or into your everyday life.
Mondays, Dec. 4-18, 6:30-7:45 pm. Limit: 5. Advance registration required.
Join us to re-discover your innate strength and capacity to learn.
Copyright © International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden.
Register for just one class or all four December classes.
We’ll investigate movement patterns which are the building blocks for sitting, standing , and walking.
Take your discoveries into your dance or other movement practice or into your everyday life.
Mondays, Dec. 4-18, 6:30-7:45 pm. Limit: 5. Advance registration required.
Join us to re-discover your innate strength and capacity to learn.
Copyright © International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden.
Register for just one class or all four December classes.
We’ll investigate movement patterns which are the building blocks for sitting, standing , and walking.
Take your discoveries into your dance or other movement practice or into your everyday life.
Mondays, Dec. 4-18, 6:30-7:45 pm. Limit: 5. Advance registration required.
Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. PHOTO: Gadi Dagon.
You’ll be guided using a series of evocative movement instructions that build on each other. Rather than copying a movement, you’ll actively explore these instructions, discovering how you interpret the information and perform the task at hand. It’s a creative framework for you to connect to with your body and imagination, increase physical awareness, improve flexibility and stamina, and experience the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.
The New York Times has just published an article about the Feldenkrais Method®. After two hours of lessons, columnist Jane E. Brody describes herself as “walking on air,” freed from her chronic pain.
She acknowledges up front a reluctance to investigate Feldenkrais: “I had long refrained from writing about this method of countering pain because I thought it was some sort of New Age gobbledygook with no scientific basis. Boy, was I wrong!”
© International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden
Brody began to understand how the method is effective:
“The slow, gentle, repetitive movements I practiced in a Feldenkrais group class helped foster an awareness of how I use my body in relation to my environment, and awareness is the first step to changing one’s behavior.”
If you’ve personally experienced the benefits of Feldenkrais already, and have a friend or family member who you think would also benefit, an article like this could be a great help in convincing them. If someone like that comes to mind, please share this article with them.
Join us to re-discover your innate strength and capacity to learn.
Copyright © International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden.
In this series, we’ll investigate movement patterns which are the building blocks for sitting, standing , and walking.
Take your discoveries into your dance or other movement practice or into your everyday life.
“Truly remarkable such simple movements have such a large impact.”
—Michelle Accardo, MS, ATC, LMT, CLT
4 Mondays, Nov. 6-Nov. 27, 6:30-8:00 pm. Limit: 5.
You learn most movement practices from the outside in: watch the teacher and imitate.
© International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden.
In Awareness Through Movement®, you’re invited to learn from the inside out.
Join us to re-discover your innate strength and capacity to learn.
In this 6-week series, we’ll investigate movement patterns which are the building blocks for sitting, standing , and walking.
Take your discoveries into your dance or yoga practice or into your everyday life.
“Truly remarkable such simple movements have such a large impact.”
—Michelle Accardo, MS, ATC, LMT, CLT
6 Tuesdays, Nov. 7-Dec. 12, 7:30-8:30 pm. Limit: 14 participants.
We humans are born poised for learning. But we don’t necessarily know how to learn what doesn’t come easily to us.
For years after I finished college, I had a recurrent nightmare. I was sitting down to take a final exam, and I realized I hadn’t even opened the textbook. As you might guess, I’d had a rocky time in college. It was a liberal arts school where the ideal was to be studying all the time. Our workload reflected that. I literally got every grade you can get, from A+ to F.
A lot has changed since then, but one thing hasn’t: I’m still curious about myself and the world around me. I love learning. So when I stumbled across a reference to “learning how to learn,” I immediately clicked on the link.
It lead me to a New York Times article about an online course taught by Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski. Oakley had failed science and math in high school. She decided in her twenties to get an engineering degree and taught herself how to learn the material which didn’t come easily to her. Now she’s an engineering professor.
When I read that, I signed up for the Learning How to Learn course immediately. Hey, it’s free! (Unless you’d like a certificate: then it’s $49.) And the info’s invaluable.
The material, backed by research in neuroscience—with plenty of supplemental material if you want to dig deeper—complements what I’ve learned, from a different perspective, as a Feldenkrais teacher.
A Pomodoro kitchen timer. “Pomodoro” means “tomato” in Italian.
Just a few of the concepts from the course:
I wish this course had been offered before I went to college. I’m certainly glad I’ve taken it now.
Are you ready to learn how to learn? Register for the course here, on Coursera. Apparently it’s their most popular course, by far. I’m not surprised.
Would you like to discover more about how the Feldenkrais Method® supports learning? Here are core principles suggested by Norman Doidge, MD.
You learn most movement practices from the outside in: watch the teacher and imitate.
In Awareness Through Movement®, you’re invited to learn from the inside out.
Join us to re-discover your innate strength and capacity to learn.
In this 6-week series, we’ll investigate movement patterns which are the building blocks for sitting, standing , and walking.
Take your discoveries into your dance or yoga practice or into your everyday life.
“Truly remarkable such simple movements have such a large impact.”
—Michelle Accardo, MS, ATC, LMT, CLT
6 Tuesdays, Sept. 26-Oct. 31, 7:30-8:30 pm. Limit: 14 participants.
Join us to re-discover your innate strength and capacity to learn.
Copyright © International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden.
In this series, we’ll investigate movement patterns which are the building blocks for sitting, standing , and walking.
Take your discoveries into your dance or other movement practice or into your everyday life.
“Truly remarkable such simple movements have such a large impact.”
—Michelle Accardo, MS, ATC, LMT, CLT
5 Mondays, Oct. 2-30, 6:30-8:00 pm. Limit: 5.