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The Feldenkrais Method Improves |
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 | Health, Posture,
Breathing, Flexibility, Strength and Coordination |
| Pain, Stress and
Muscular Tension |
| Functioning in
cases of Orthopedic or Neurological Problems |
| Emotional Health,
Communication Skills, Sex and Recreation |
| Thinking,
Imagination, Creativity and Learning Abilities |
| Self Awareness,
Body Self Image |
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The Feldenkrais Method
consists of two basic techniques,
Awareness Through Movement
and
Functional Integration. Together they comprise a system of neuromuscular
re-education that can dramatically improve individual functioning by
increasing self-awareness and facilitating new patterns of thinking, moving,
and feeling.
About Moshé Feldenkrais
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The Feldenkrais
Method was originated by Moshé Feldenkrais, D.Sc., a pioneer in movement
science and the innovator of therapeutic and educational approaches.
Feldenkrais was born in Russia in 1904 and emigrated to Palestine at the age
of 14. As a young man he was an excellent athlete and self-taught in
jujitsu. While attending night school preparing to study physics he was a
surveyor and tutored problem students. He had an early interest in hypnosis
and translated Emile Coué's book on autosuggestion into Hebrew.
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"What
I'm after isn't flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I'm after is to
restore each person to their human dignity."
Moshé Feldenkrais |
Feldenkrais earned his doctorate in physics at the Sorbonne in Paris, where
he assisted Nobel Prize Laureate Frederic Joliot-Curie at the Curie
Institute. During his university years he met Kano, the originator of judo.
Feldenkrais studied judo intensively and became a well-known judo teacher.
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During
World War II, Feldenkrais fled to England where he worked in antisubmarine
research, trained paratroopers in self-defense techniques, and authored
books on judo. On slippery submarine decks, he aggravated an old soccer
injury to his knees and began many years of extended work on himself. His
self-research led to discoveries about movement re-education and to the
development of his methods of Awareness Through Movement® and Functional
Integration®.
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In Tel
Aviv between 1969 and 1972, Feldenkrais trained his first, small group of
practitioners. From 1975 to 1978 he completed the training of a second group
of practitioners, this time in the U.S. Among his closest American students
was Mark Reese, who studied with Feldenkrais over a period of nearly 10
years, both in the U.S. and in Israel.
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Feldenkrais authored six books on his methods. In addition, his main body of
work is preserved in thousands of hours of audio and videotapes and
transcripts. Feldenkrais vast educational system was the result of 40
remarkably productive and creative years during which he focused on the
sensory-motor aspects that underlie human action and experience. Feldenkrais
died in 1984, leaving a small group of highly trained practitioners who have
continued to teach his methods worldwide.
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"The
system developed by Moshé Feldenkrais has as much potential for
understanding the mind/body relationship as Einstein's general theory of
relativity had for physics."
Bernard Lake, M.D.
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Books by Moshé Feldenkrais |
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Feldenkrais, Moshé. Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex,
Gravitation and Learning |
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Awareness Through Movement: Health Exercises for Personal Growth
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Case of Nora: Body Awareness as Healing Therapy |
| The
Elusive Obvious |
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Master Moves |
The
Potent Self
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"One
of the most exciting developments in the field of mind-body coordination is
the work of Moshé Feldenkrais."
Dr. Elmer Green, Menninger Foundation
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"He is
changing the image in the motor cortex; and our brain, feeling the freedom
of the new learning, rushes to meet it."
Arno Gruen, M.D., Psychiatrist
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"Dr.
Moshé Feldenkrais' method will be of great benefit to all of humanity. From
my own experience I know the remarkable results achieved."
David Ben Gurion, First Prime Minister of Israel
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