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Application of The Feldenkrais Method
 
Self-help and self-development for professionals:
Feldenkrais for sportspeople, martial artists, dancers, actors, trapeze artists, musicians, visual artists

“Lessons in Awareness: Benefits for a Sports Enthusiast and Martial Artist”
Ever since I was a youngster I’ve been keenly interested in sports and health. I can say that both would have been easier with more awareness. Many twisted ankles and knees, mainly in connection with football might have been prevented. There was also this desire of playing...
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“Improved Golf and no more Back Pain”
Maurice, a retired businessman, wanted to find a way to alleviate longstanding chronic back pain and to improve his golf swing. After ten lessons he felt he had learnt what he needed to learn and wrote ...
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“With Feldenkrais Actors Can Greatly Expand Their Expressive Potential”

Denise’s professional training as an actress had been based on improvisation “as a creative act involving the whole being – body, mind, emotions ... creating a role, a situation by starting from some physical action, a song, anything...
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Body-Mind-Unity in Musical Performance: A professional pianist:
“Thanks to practising the Feldenkrais Method I have found a way of playing with the whole body. Everything in me is working together. And when everything is moving with you – supporting the...

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Body-Mind-Unity in Musical Performance: A professional cellist
“Dancing with the music.”
Like Connie, Sarah is a ‘born musician’ who transmits something very special to any audience, no matter whether she is playing the cello or the accordion.
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How could I have done this for so long with so much unnecessary muscle tension?

A Trapeze Artist’s realization by Malcolm Manning
“Eighteen months on trapeze, and four or five Awareness Through Movement lessons later, I decided to conduct a simple experiment. Hang by my hands from a trapeze and observe what was going on in my body.
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An Artist and the Feldenkrais Method
On the occasion of an exhibition of her work at Hodshill House near Bath, in December 2001, painter Angela Weyersberg talked about the profound effect the Feldenkrais Method has had on her work and on herself. What Angela said was recorded, transcribed, and edited by Ilana Nevill. During the exhibition quite a few people were particularly struck by some large drawings of cedar trees....
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A Martial Artist and Musician Discovers the Benefits of Learning the Feldenkrais Way

Ross sought out the Feldenkrais Method when he could no longer bear the aches and pains in his hyper-but-unfortunately- dysfunctionally-trained Tai-Chi body: the sense of being all locked up inside what felt like a self-created prison of muscle tension; the useless efforts and straining as he tried to find release; the ominous clicking in his knees; the unpleasant sensation of tightness in his solar plexus; the feeling of seizing up in panic....
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