A Feldenkrais Class by Baby Liv
This is a montage of a little baby named Liv doing what babies do during their first year of life.
It is these first beginnings that form the initial pieces that someone would learn while doing a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Lesson. Finding the floor under you, finding the support the environment gives you so that you can move, repetition that is driven by curiosity and exploration so that action can begin to be effortless and more refined.
This piece of baby development forms a major foundation of the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and his method, The Feldenkrais Method.
This video has been compiled from a year of footage taken in Whistler, BC.
Special thanks to David Picking, who composed the music.
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Musical Performance and Feldenkrais Awareness Exercises
Andrew Gibbons, Classical Pianist and Feldenkrais Practitioner in New York City describes the process of discovering whole body awareness from a Feldenkrais perspective and how to produce better musical sound by finding greater skeletal support in sitting.
This video offers a mini-demonstration of key principles to be aware of in sitting that will give lightness to your arms and hands. These key principles can be applied to more than just playing piano or using a musical instrument, but in any with any endeavour that requires sitting and needing the use of your hands (computer use, driving, knitting, writing…etc.)
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We will be documenting Moshe Feldenkrais’ legacy by posing questions about various foundations, principles and key lectures that have greatly formed how practitioners work with clients.
Our focus will be to interview those that attended his main trainings in Israel and the United States, as well as those who are actively pursuing and practicing his work. This clip is of Sheryl Field, Assistant Trainer, speaking in reference to Moshe’s classic lecture from his last professional teacher training in Amherst, Massachusetts titled: “To correct is incorrect.”
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High Performance Sport: The Canadian Alpine Ski Team
John speaks of his experiences with The Feldenkrais Method and how it has brought him greater body awareness in his training and while racing on snow.
In the summer of 2004 the Canadian Alpine Ski acquired a new physical conditioning coach by the name of Kurt Kothbauer. Kurt happened to be not only a highly credible coach for conditioning alpine skiers (he is Austrian and worked with the likes of Herman Maier and Stefan Eberharter while with the Austrian alpine ski teams for 8 years), but he is also a Feldenkrais Practitioner! Needless to say, the method and principles of Moshe Feldenkrais dramatically challenged and changed the way in which the Canadian Alpine Ski Team approached their physical training routines, warm-up and recovery protocols. Keep an eye out for these athletes during the 2010 Winter Olympics!
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High Performance Sport: The Canadian Alpine Ski Team
Brad Spence, ski racer, talks about his experiences having one-on-one Feldenkrais sessions with his coach Kurt Kothbauer, and the importance of bringing heightened physical awareness to training.
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Childhood Motor Disorders
Sheri-Rose Rubin talks about discovering that her son Max had cerebral palsy, the incredibly grim prognosis given to him by the medical community, finding the Feldenkrais Method and the work of Sheryl Field which turned a tragedy into something incredibly beautiful.
Sheryl Field is the founder of The Field Center: For Children’s Integrated Development.
What she does and the remarkable impact she has made on the lives of many families who were given very little hope for their children’s disabilities must be shared with other families in similar situations.
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Bringing an Appropriate Environment to a Child
Sheryl talks about the primary foundational elements from which she practices when working with a child whose legs are spastic and poorly differentiated as a result of cerebral palsy.
“What would be the way in which any child would have learned that their legs were theirs? What would be the baseline of recognizing ones own legs as two separate parts of oneself meant to be under ones conscious control?”
Sheryl Field, Assistant Trainer of The Feldenkrais Method, has been practicing since her graduation from the Amherst Training in 1983, the last professional teacher training taught by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. She is the founder of The Field Center For Children’s Integrated Development.
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The Feldenkrais Institute in Manhattan, New York
Why create a public domain for Feldenkrais? Well, as Andrew says, a space needs to be created that can really showcase what the work can offer and the diversity of application that it can afford all individuals in whatever domain they which to improve.
The Feldenkrais Institute in New York opened its doors in 2005 and is a fully functional venue in the public eye for Feldenkrais “EVERYTHING” to take place. From professional trainings, advanced trainings, public workshops, daily classes and private lessons, this institute has set the bar and hopefully will show other groups of practitioners throughout the world that IT IS possible!
