“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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