Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais method as explained in Awareness Through Movement. Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness. Feldenkrais provides a modern-day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. His down-to-earth method carefully avoids any mystical component and never obliges any pupil to master abstruse theories. Exercises for posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and focus new dimensions of awareness, self-image, and human potential.

Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

FELDENKRAIS, MOSHE

Exercise & Fitness

HarperOne

This monumental, foundational book fully explains the theory behind the author's revolutionary techniques for improving the functions of the human motor system.

The Potent Self: A Guide to Spontaneity

Psychology & Counseling

Harper-San Francisco

Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Intl Universities Pr Inc

Feldenkrais advances the thesis that study and re-education of muscular behavior patterns, along with an analysis of the mental processes, are more effective in the understanding and treatment of emotionalal problems than the latter alone.  He pleas for the study and treatment of the organism as a whole, with emphasis on the re-education of the faulty muscular pattern. He presents the concept of muscular pattern and neurosis and their development, bridging the gaps among the various related disciplines in the study of human behavioral patterns. Feldenkrais argues that recognizing pathologic or harmful muscular pattern's importance in neurotic performance and direct retraining along with psychological treatment could boost success in psychiatric treatment.

Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning

International Universities Press

The Elusive Obvious deals with simple, fundamental notions of our daily life that through habit become elusive. Time is money is obviously a good attitude to have in business or work. It is not at all obvious that in love the same attitude is the cause of so much unhappiness. We often make mistakes. We carry over from one activity to another attitudes of mind that do not make life what it could be. romance is obviously a fine thing. Romantic love is enchanting, but not so good if one partner is money-minded and the other is romantic. In time, they will finish at the psychiatrist's or in court. Many troubled relationships come from inadvertently carrying over seemingly good habits of thought to where they do not apply. Somehow we behave as if good habits are always good. We think or rather feel that we need not bother about behaving otherwise. It is not so obvious that good habits can make us unhappy. It is an elusive truth. Yet habitual lack of free choice is often, nay, usually, disastrous. If you come across something obviously new to you, in its form at least, please stop for a moment and look inward. Working out new alternatives assists us to grow stronger and wiser. My editor tells me that I should free readers from having to think and look inward. I believe she knows what the average reader likes. I myself do not like predigested food. For you, the reader, I have added to the beginning and end of each chapter a short introduction and summary to facilitate your digestion so that you will find it easier to make what is elusive more obvious.

The Elusive Obvious or Basic Feldenkrais

Self-Help

Relationships

Meta Publications

The introduction: I attended my first Feldenkrais wrokshop during the summer of 1974. It was taught by a man who spent only a month with Moshe Feldenkrais and was not a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais method. Nevertheless he had absorbed enough of the Feldenkrais spirit to convey something of the essence of Moshe's work. I was at that time suffering form periodic bouts of low back pain and exploring various body therapies to alleviate my trouble. But I was initially reluctant to try Feldenkrais work. Feldenkrais movement, I had heard, had something to do with coordination. I knew I had poor coordination and I thought of myself as clumsy, without grace, a poor athlete and a terrible dancer. The workshop was a revelation. In two days I discovered that I had all the ability to change what I wanted changed. It was possi ble for me to dance and move freely. I could stand in gravity and my pelvis could be underneath my shoulders. Above all I could do simple muscles as long as I moved with what Feldenkrais called awareness. ...Carl Ginsburg

The Master Moves

Alternative Medicine

Meta Pubns

The Esalen 1972 Workshop was Dr. Feldenkrais’s first significant teaching visit to the U.S. and a pivotal moment in the development of his work. The course took place over five weeks and the participants included many of the leading people in the humanistic psychology movement, adding a distinct quality and excitement to Feldenkrais’s explanations and teaching. This new edition of the notes is bound and reformatted with an extensive introduction by David Zemach-Bersin. From the introduction: “At Esalen, Feldenkrais… was able to direct himself to one, consistent group of highly engaged students, and had the opportunity to ‘start at the beginning’, following a path of both developmental and intellectual continuity, putting his thinking into action. And, that is exactly what he did.” The 43 lessons include a variety of different types of lessons from variations on classics to unusual or challenging lessons seen nowhere else. Teachers will find this an excellent resource for ATM teaching and inspiration.

Esalen 1972 Workshop

Feldenkrais Resources

In 1974 Moshe went to London to conduct a four weekpublic workshop for the Quaesitor Centre, aBritish human potentials center, modeled on theEsalen Institute. Much like Esalen, the QuasitorCentre was concerned with such subjects asmeditation and body-mind relationships. Thus,many of the lessons and lectures includecomments and discussions relating to humandevelopment, psychology, and spiritual pursuits.The entire workshop was recorded and thentranscribed. This manuscript is reformatted fromthe original and all of the Awareness ThroughMovement lessons are highly suitable for classesor workshops. There are six lectures included and30 ATM lessons most of which are not availableanywhere else or are unusual variations onfamiliar ATM lessons. This is a great teachingresource.

1974 London ATM Workshop

L’atelier d’Esalen de 1972fut la première expérience significative d’enseignement, aux États-Unis, de Moshé Feldenkrais et représente un moment décisif dans le développement de son travail. L’atelier se déroula sur plus de cinq semaines et la présence, parmi les participants, de leaders du mouvement de psychologie humaniste apportât une qualité spécifique et une émulation à l’enseignement et aux explications de Feldenkrais. Est ajoutée à cette édition remaniée des Notes d’Esalen une introduction approfondie de David Zemach-Bersin. De l’introduction : « À Esalen, Moshé Feldenkrais, …pouvait entièrement se consacrer à un seul et même groupe d’élèves particulièrement motivés et ainsi ‘commencer du début’ et suivre une progression continue tant au niveau pratique que théorique, transformant sa pensée directement en action. Et c’est exactement ce qu’il fit.» Les 43 leçons comprennent une grande variété de types, à la fois les plus classiques, des leçons inhabituelles, certaines difficiles et d’autres référencées nulle part ailleurs. Les enseignants trouveront ici, une excellente ressource pédagogique pour l’enseignement des PCM ainsi qu’une grande source d’inspiration.

L'atelier d'Esalen de 1972 (French Edition)

An educational system of neuromuscular re-education known for its gentle approach, the Feldenkrais Method has been shown to dramatically improve individual functioning by increasing self-awareness and facilitating new patterns of thinking, moving, and feeling. Intended for those who need to improve their movement repertoire for professional reasons–-dancers, musicians, martial artists, gymnasts, and athletes–-as well as those wishing to reduce pain or limitations in movement, Feldenkrais is based on the idea that learning to move better can improve anyone’s overall health on many levels.
Using Moshe Feldenkrais’s own words, Embodied Wisdom clearly explains the basic principles underpinning his techniques, Awareness Through Movement (ATM) and Functional Integration (FI). These thoughtful articles and lively, sometimes humorous interviews explore a diverse range of subjects: the importance of bodily expression, the primacy of hearing, the mind-body connection, martial arts, sleep and consciousness, movement and its effect on the mind. Embodied Wisdom gives readers the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the scientific and spiritual principles behind the Method and offers sound strategies for incorporating it into their lives.

Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais

North Atlantic Books

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