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Last Updated Nov 24, 2018

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1. Irene Lyon

Vancouver, BCAbout Blog The scientific part of her work is based in Somatic Experiencing and the Feldenkrais Method. She has helped everyone from Olympic athletes, to wheelchair-bound basketball players, to folks suffering from severe PTSD, to big-deal executives, to online stars. Her clients miraculously improve from back pain, knee pain, chronic pain, fear of public speaking, digestive issues, severe depression, anxiety, development.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Aug 2010
Website irenelyon.com/blog
Facebook fans 22,009. Twitter followers 984.View Latest Posts ▸

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2. Feldenkrais Guild

Wakefield, MAAbout Blog The Feldenkrais Educational Foundation of North America (FEFNA) supports theoretically grounded research that extends and advances the Feldenkrais Method. There is a growing body of research conducted by scientists, scholars, and Feldenkrais practitioners around the world exploring all aspects of the Feldenkrais Method, including its efficacy, applications, theoretical foundations, and more.
Frequency about 3 posts per month.
Since Jun 2014
Website feldenkraisguild.com/blog_ho..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers 130.View Latest Posts ▸

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3. Twin Cities

St. Paul, MNAbout Blog The Feldenkrais Method is a 50-year-old form of neuromuscular reeducation with applications similar to physical therapy. He gives information on the life-changing benefits of Feldenkrais study as widely as possible. Using the wisdom of the Feldenkrais Method about human experience and learning.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Jan 2013
Website twincitiesfeldenkrais.com/ca..
Facebook fans 608. Twitter followers 176.View Latest Posts ▸

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4. Trans4move

SeattleAbout Blog Taro Iwamoto is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner with backgrounds in athletic training, orthopedic/neurological rehabilitation, and martial arts. He helps people with backaches, muscle and/or joint pain as well as performance with new options for easier, more efficient, and more pleasurable movement.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website trans4move.com/blog
Facebook fans 96. Twitter followers n/a.View Latest Posts ▸

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5. The Balanced Runner

About Blog Jae Gruenke is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, running technique expert, and founder of The Balanced Runner. Known as a "running form guru," she has helped runners from beginner to Olympian relieve pain and improve their performance, and she specializes in helping runners whose problems have persisted despite medical treatment
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Nov 2012
Website balancedrunner.com/blog
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6. Rachel Hamstra

Seattle, WAAbout Blog She helps you understand why you are experiencing discomfort, and discover how you could be moving more easily and comfortably. Through small, gentle movements, one can explore how one moves, where pain comes from, and how we can move differently to stay pain-free.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website rachelhamstra.com/blog
Facebook fans 245. Twitter followers 226.View Latest Posts ▸

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7. Lavinia Plonka

Asheville, NCAbout Blog Lavinia Plonka is a guild certified Feldenkrais Teacher & Director of the Asheville Movement Center. She helps people improve range of motion, reduce pain and live a fuller life. Includes local workshops and special events.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website laviniaplonka.com/blog
Facebook fans 1,141. Twitter followers 559.View Latest Posts ▸

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8. Discover Yourself

BostonAbout Blog Josh Schreiber Shalem helps people learn to move more easily, comfortably, and effectively by using the Feldenkrais Method. Follow us for more updates.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Aug 2004
Website discover-yourself.com
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9. Better Movement

About Blog Learn how to move without pain, resolve the root causes of your problems, cure aches by changing postural & movement habits. To know more on these follow us.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Nov 2017
Website bettermovement.com/blog
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10. Conscious Movements

Troy, NYAbout Blog The Conscious Movements blog focuses on bringing quality content to those who suffer with complex pain. However, on occasion we'll also muse on Feldenkrais and stories of transformation.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website consciousmovements.com/body-..
Facebook fans 3,122. Twitter followers 733.View Latest Posts ▸

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11. ALa Carte Spirit | Feldenkrais

About Blog Her Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education offers a much needed antidote to a world that extracts not just personal data but our attention, perhaps our most valuable resource as individuals in an increasingly complex world. To know more on these subscribe with us.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Apr 2014
Website alacartespirit.com/category/..
Facebook fans 2,632. Twitter followers n/a.View Latest Posts ▸

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12. Sense Writing

About Blog Sense Writing merges principles of The Feldenkrais Method and Neuroplasticity with the writing process, allowing you to train your nervous system away from habits of anxiety and emotional blocks. As you unlearn old habits, you will replace them with more fruitful new ones.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Jul 2016
Website sensewriting.org/sensewritings
Facebook fans 2,558. Twitter followers n/a.View Latest Posts ▸

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13. Feldenkrais Vancouver

Vancouver, BCAbout Blog Vita Kolodny is a Feldenkrais practitioner. She teaches people with back, neck and shoulder pain how to change their movement habits so they can be more comfortable and functional.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website feldenkraisvancouver.com/blog-2
Facebook fans 249. Twitter followers 458.View Latest Posts ▸

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14. Alex Toenniges

Bloomington, IndianaAbout Blog Alex is a bassoonist and certified Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement Teacher. Her interest is in helping others to sense themselves and expand their possibilities so that they may "live fully their unavowed dreams."
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Apr 2018
Website alextoenniges.com/blog
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15. Vocal Dynamix

LondonAbout Blog VocalDynamix is a multi-format voicework course, which combines the Awareness Through Movement approach of The Feldenkrais Method with state-of-the-art voice training techniques, and which enables the student to learn.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Jan 2012
Website vocaldynamix.com/blog/catego..
Facebook fans 318. Twitter followers 660.View Latest Posts ▸

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16. Reno FELDENKRAIS

About Blog Feldenkrais Method classes and private sessions are a powerful way to find healthy aging with better posture, movement and less pain - in shoulders, back, knees, hips, legs, feet and more; improve balance, mobility and posture, recover from injury, illness, stroke, delay/avoid surgery and heal faster. You'll improve movement and comfort, arthritis, spinal disc degeneration, MS, scoliosis, stenosis and more. Contact Carole Bucher, BA, GCFP.
Frequency about 1 post per week.
Website renofeldenkrais.blogspot.com
Facebook fans 1,398. Twitter followers n/a.View Latest Posts ▸

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17. A Feldenkrais Blog

PennsylvaniaAbout Blog The Feldenkrais method is a relatively new method that teaches us through floor exercises in guided gentle movement lessons as well as hands on work one to one with a Feldenkrais practitioner how to expand our "Body Image" and function more efficiently within the field of gravity that we live in.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Jun 2007
Website feldenkraisblog.net
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18. Feldenkrais with Celine Erbani

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Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website erbani-feldenkrais.blogspot.com
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19. Feldenkrais in Sarasota

FloridaAbout Blog Through your ability to sense differences you can learn how to expand what you do well and create new possibilities. Discover how to quiet old habits, attend to details of the action while you move, and then, through specifically designed movement lessons, recover old abilities or discover new.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Dec 2015
Website feldenkraisinsarasota.com/au..
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20. Moving Matters

About Blog One will be guided, by moving with awareness, to learn to sense the underlying mechanics of your movement patterns. Moving with attention has been proven to create new neural pathways in your brain, which in turn generates new movement possibilities.
Frequency about 3 posts per month.
Since Aug 2018
Website movingmatters.ca/blog
Facebook fans 320,706. Twitter followers n/a.View Latest Posts ▸

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21. Move Well Dublin

About Blog MoveWellDublin offers personally tailored and group Feldenkrais movement lessons for recovery from pain, overcoming movement limitiations and self-exploration. MoveWellDublin also offeres the Jeremy Krauss Approach for supporting children with special needs through their own unique developmental process.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Jan 2016
Website movewelldublin.com/blog
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22. Moon Dance Forest

About Blog Feldenkrais Method is safe, has fun puzzles for your nervous system and brain. Each is designed to help you learn patterns about yourself and the world helping you remember, learn and create new patterns of behavior. The more you can relax and enjoy the exercises for the pleasure of doing them and learning, the more you will gain.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Nov 2015
Website moondanceforest.net/blog
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Washington Post article about the surprisingly effective results of Feldenkrais to improve back pain

A Different Way to Relieve Years of Back Pain (Health and Science, Washington Post)

A student practices Feldenkrais in a class led by Chrish Kresge in her studio in Northwest Washington DC. The method seeks to retrain the mind and body. It involves slow, sometimes tiny movements of the shoulders, neck, hips, legs and ribs. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post)

By Lisa Rein

September 27

In my first Feldenkrais class, we lay on our backs with eyes closed and drifted our eyeballs left to right and back again. We shifted our heads from side to side as our eyes followed in their sockets. Then we changed it up, moving our eyes in the opposite direction from our heads.

This may sound like a simple sequence. It’s deceptively challenging. And it continued for an hour, with sitting variations, eyes alternately open and shut, a brain workout that included tracking our thumbs as our bent arms moved at eye level from left to right and back again.

These eye calisthenics were supposed to relieve my years of back pain.

Yeah, right, I remember thinking that Sunday morning 18 months ago as I felt an odd exhaustion set in. Slow and subtle was harder than I thought. I fidgeted. My eyes grew tired. How was all of this commotion under my lids supposed to stop my right hip from unnecessary rotation when I walked and unfreeze my left shoulder and neck?

I had tried the Feldenkrais Method under some duress. Although there aren’t a lot of good studies, my friend Jon told me it had reduced his lower back pain from excruciating to manageable.

Too many chiropractors, osteopaths, yoga classes, trainers, acupuncturists and ibuprofen over 30 years of back pain. They had at best given me only temporary relief — or sometimes more pain. Feldenkrais sounded too nuanced, with its slow and subtle movements that were supposed to retrain how I walked, sat or held myself as I typed a story on my computer.

I had convinced myself that my diagnosis — osteoarthritis in my neck, a mild scoliosis in my lower back and a genetic weakness inherited from my father, whose severely S-curved spine led to a life of pain — would not be cured by yet another approach.

Finally, after a particularly bad stretch and pressure from my husband, who was impatient with my constant complaints, I capitulated.

And at the end of that first class, I was surprised: I felt a little different, lighter. I could turn my neck a bit more to the left. My right hip moved more freely.

Kresge leads one of her classes. “Undoing patterns often means telling the body to try not to try, to do less so you can feel more,” said Kresge, a musical-theater buff who discovered the method in the 1980s to help free her singing voice. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post)

Students recline on mats with their arms outstretched in Kresge’s class. Moshé Feldenkrais, a Russian-born physicist, had developed the technique after World War II. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post)

People lift their arms during a class led by Kresge. There are now 1,300 certified Feldenkrais teachers in the United States and about 14,000 in 22 other countries. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post)

Yet this made no sense to me, as the class involved no hip stretching. All of those eye motions, with my lids open and shut, had somehow freed up my body.

And that, it turns out, was the point. Eye movements play a vital role in coordinating the body’s musculature, particularly in how the neck muscles contract, one of Feldenkrais’s many counterintuitive approaches to learning to move differently, teacher Chrish Kresge says.

Or as Moshé Feldenkrais (1904-1984), the Russian-born physicist, engineer and judo master who developed the technique to deal with his own pain from a debilitating knee injury, writes in his book, “Awareness Through Movement,” “The eyes are not only for seeing.”

Like shifting the shoulders, ankles, pelvis, spring and limbs in certain ways, exercising your eyes can improve the organization of the entire trunk, he writes, by moving in ways that are not habitual and make you aware of how other parts of your body respond.

Nearly 65 years after he began teaching it (post-World War II, in his adopted home of Israel), Feldenkrais’s method is finally having its moment. There are now 1,300 certified teachers in the United States and about 14,000 in 22 other countries, including China, Australia, Russia and Germany, where the method is most popular, according to the Feldenkrais Guild of North America. (A major gathering of Feldenkrais practitioners, open to the public at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md., ends Sunday.)

Way before the idea of a mind-body connection became a popular health concept, Feldenkrais promoted his technique’s potential to lead us away from bad physical habits that cause tension and pain and to restore the body’s capacity for efficient, flexible, coordinated movement.

The brain, he maintained, can be retrained to reorganize the way we move our bodies, eliminating unnecessary and harmful patterns. For example, the Feldenkrais road map involves slow, sometimes tiny movements of the shoulders, neck, hips, legs and ribs. These movements help us perceive what feels good and what causes pain, and prod the brain into giving our bodies new feedback, leading to a better division of labor among our muscles.

The more than 1,000 lessons Feldenkrais created include such movements as getting up from a sitting position without putting too much pressure on your knees; by sitting and then rotating the upper body so the rib cage softens to improve your posture; and walking so you engage your pelvis instead of your lower back. But most involve lying on your back and moving the spine and other parts of the body in gentle sequences.

As with many “alternative” and mind-body therapies, there isn’t a lot of research assessing the effect of the Feldenkrais Method. A 2015 analysis in the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine found most studies of it were subpar, but it said the method showed “promising evidence” of improved balance and pain relief, particularly for the elderly. They suggested more research.

A 2004 review that looked at clinical trials involving patients with multiple sclerosis, neck/shoulder problems and chronic back pain found methodological weaknesses. The review concluded that “evidence for [Feldenkrais] is encouraging but, due to the paucity and low quality of studies, by no means compelling.”

Doctors who specialize in alternative medicine say there is a reason Feldenkrais works for some people with pain.

“We’ve learned that there is a substantial connection between what’s happening in the low back and the central nervous system,” says Robert Saper, an associate professor of family medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and a National Institutes of Health researcher in non-pharmacologic approaches to chronic back pain. “When we do a practice like this, changes can occur in the brain that modulate the perception of pain in a favorable direction.”

Feldenkrais has not eliminated my chronic neck and back discomfort, but it has helped me manage it. Its biggest benefit is a confidence that I can wriggle myself out of a setback on my own without counting the days until someone can crack my back to realign my vertebrae.

So every Sunday morning, I join 10 to 20 men and women of all ages on mats in Kresge’s class, where she channels Feldenkrais with mantras such as “Slow gets the brain’s attention” and “Don’t rehearse pain” and “If you’re sensing differences between your left side and your right, you’re already making changes.” She walks around the room with gentle touches that coax our necks or sternums or ribs to let go of the tension blocking them from moving freely.

Her Northwest Washington studio is filled at various times with Type A federal workers, diplomats, athletes and musicians, retirees, special-needs children and adults with neuromotor challenges, including Parkinson’s, and stroke victims with motor issues. (The method has attracted some prominent adherents over the years including basketball player Julius Erving, tennis player Martina Navratilova, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Yehudi Menuhin.)

All of this minimal effort is harder than it seems — particularly for people like me who tend to thrive on stress, then collapse from it in a continuous loop.

Babies, it turns out, don’t tighten their sternums or their backs, or hold their heads in front of their necks as stressed-out adults do. Feldenkrais tries to get us back to the conditions that babies experience when they learn to move. They haven’t yet stretched or learned to strain. I’ve spent entire classes lying on the floor holding my big toe, gently lifting my head and my foot to rewire the primal movements that have gone askew.

My own body routines went haywire back in college, when an accumulation of all-nighters and long hours studying with my neck jutting toward my American history books left both shoulders throbbing with an ache that persisted. Massage was nirvana — for a few minutes. When things kept getting worse in my 20s, a variety of practitioners offered diagnoses ranging from a short right leg to nothing to worry about. (That last verdict came from an orthopedic surgeon who told me that if I wasn’t a candidate for surgery, he couldn’t help.)

I’ve had a few memorable disasters. The vertebrae in my lower neck shifted out of alignment on a canoeing trip in Nova Scotia, sending the muscles around them into spasm. My then-boyfriend had to do all the paddling and carry our packs for the rest of the trip.

I once left an arch support I convinced myself I could not live without in a rental car, never to find a suitable replacement that makes walking with certain shoes pain-free. My husband, a lifelong backpacker, has searched the Internet for an inflatable sleeping pad that’s comfortable enough for a tent.

Why I have pain and others with more crooked backs don’t is still a mystery. The best I have come up with is that a combination of genetics, poor eyesight, wear and tear, and a tendency to carry anxiety in my body contribute. And doctors tell me that people carry their vulnerabilities in different places.

“Undoing patterns often means telling the body to try not to try, to do less so you can feel more,” said Kresge, a musical-theater buff who discovered Feldenkrais in the late 1980s to help free her singing voice.

I’m still undoing my own patterns.

On a vacation in the Pacific Northwest last week, I zoomed down a steep playground slide, my 2-year-old nephew in my lap, and crash-landed on my tailbone. Unable to sit for more than five minutes and with my neck muscles seized up in their familiar pattern, I saw a skilled chiropractor — twice.

I felt better, but two days later the pain was back. After flying home, I was back in Feldenkrais class, which was devoted, luckily for me, to freeing the shoulders. We lay on our backs, bent our elbows at right angles and slowly moved our arms back and forward, lifting and lowering our necks and pelvises in different patterns. After class, I walked to my car, took some deep breaths and drove home, my neck in a much better place

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Lisa ReinLisa Rein covers federal agencies and the management of government in the Trump adminstration. At The Washington Post, she has written about the federal workforce; state politics and government in Annapolis, and in Richmond; local government in Fairfax County, Va. and the redevelopment of Washington and its neighborhoods. Follow 

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The eyes organize your movement -- Feldenkrais Classes Thanksgiving Week, 2018

Hi Everyone,

Tuesday and Saturday Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement classes this Thanksgiving week are alive and well!  Our class this week is a seated, pelvis, spinal, full body rotation lesson with a very large component of work with the eyes.

Freedom of eye movement is even more important than you may think. The six muscles that hold the eyeballs in place need to be fit and balanced as much if not more than other muscles in the body. Eye muscle fitness and good range of movement improves our ability to look in any direction at any time, improves general eye health and function, and most important of all, helps us to use the eyes more effectively to direct the organization of the skeleton.

This lesson also gives us ample opportunity to study unnecessary, parasitic contractions that have nothing to do with the movement we are doing. They occur in other parts of the body, sometimes hands, feet, jaw, etc.  Working with these helps us to reduce effort and force and refine our general movement.

Everyone was surprised after class at the increase in comfort and mobility, and improvement of skeletal organization -- far more than students had expected from a chair lesson.

There is only one class left this week, at 250 Bell St., Saturday at 10 am. If you want to come to class for the first time, please contact me using the contact form above and I'll send you the necessary info. Plan to come 15 mins early, but be sure to let me know.

Meanwhile, hoping you have a good week with your loved ones. So many of our near and dear are experiencing challenges.

Warm regards,
Carole

De-stress, loosen your shoulders, neck and back and improve your range of movement -- Feldy class, week of Nov. 12-17

SHOULDER, RIBS and NECK mobility  and whole body alignment! We are doing my new favorite lesson this week! 

This is one of those Awareness Through Movement® lessons that makes you feel fabulously comfortable and organized throughout the whole body afterward! 

• Please note that there will be no Thursday 5 pm class on Nov. 22, 
• but there will be a class on Saturday, Nov. 24. 
• Reno Feldenkrais® classes end for the year after Dec. 15th's class on Saturday. 
• We will resume joyfully on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.

SHOULDER and NECK mobility and comfort + whole body alignment, and better breathing. After last week's walking lesson, we are doing another wonderful new Feldenkrais class with a chest, shoulder, spine and neck focus. We do a wide variety of specific, gentle, non-habitual movements in these areas to wake up your entire body to new possibilities.  You will feel great afterward.  
  Classes are Tues. noon, 250 Bell St., Thurs. 5 pm (Reno Buddhist Center) and Sat. 10 am, 250 Bell St. 
  Contact me if you are coming to your first class.