We talk about the work of Alia Crum and the studies she has done on mindsets and their influence on our health and biology. We get into the effects of social suggestions on aging. We discuss auto-suggestion and how health care providers could improve their communication skills. We return to Dr. Feldenkrais and his interest in auto-suggestion and hypnosis and how these concepts became influential in developing his method.
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How does the mind influence the brain? It was a widely held belief that the mind was a result of the brain, and the mind could not reflect and affect the functioning of the brain. It was just around 2000 that this belief started to change. Dr. Feldenkrais understood this decades ago and applied the idea of using the mind to change the brain in his Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration work. Dr. Feldenkrais is considered one of the first neuro-plasticians.
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What is reversibility? Dr. Feldenkrais considered this an essential concept of the Feldenkrais Method. We give examples and do some explorations with reversibility. We also discuss good posture, cultivating quality movement, and choice. We end with how the method is generalized to daily life and how the benefits show up spontaneously without practice.
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We discuss the functioning of the mouth and jaw. What is the relationship between the jaw, neck, and eyes? How does the pelvis influence the functioning of the jaw? What part does the tongue play in a well-organized jaw? We discuss and explore these ideas in this podcast, which introduces our audio program, “Release Jaw Tension Now.”
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We discuss a concept Dr. Feldenkrais presents in his book Body and Mature Behavior. Which is that there are two paths of development. One is the pathway of improvement in which a person continues to make finer and finer distinctions. The other is the pathway of decline in which a person lumps their experience into larger and larger categories. We discuss this in reference to movement, the Feldenkrais Method, and hobbies such as painting, gardening, and building.
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The Feldenkrais Method® can enhance and invigorate your mindful practice. Whatever your practice — yoga, meditation, Tai-Chi, Aikido, or moving boulders; Feldenkrais lessons can make what you do easier.
The Feldenkrais Method® includes movement, sensing, thinking, and feeling in the development of Awareness. Movement quality, how you move, integrates these primary aspects of the experience. Recognize the pattern of anxiety as described by Dr. Feldenkrais in his book, The Elusive Obvious.
We discuss pain as a motivator to seek the Feldenkrais Method®; how movement affects acute pain and chronic pain. Donna shares how she managed pain and regained the use of her hand and arm using the Feldenkrais Method.
What is the difference between implicit and explicit memories? Learn to make pleasant memories stick. Become familiar with strategies of learning within The Feldenkrais Method®.
Learn about Dr. Feldenkrais and the professional trainings he developed. Consider, competence, confidence and how beliefs shape our self image. Donna shares how she became a painter, and Al discusses how he overcame his voice’s significant limitations.
Join us, and experience simple, easy to-do, powerful Feldenkrais movements that demonstrates the nature of habit.
Understand the difference between Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® and exercise. Experience a short movement learning experience. Recognizing habits. What they are they? And how Feldenkrais lessons impact them.
Our Introduction to the Feldenkrais for Life Podcast We introduce ourselves and give you a preview of what’s to come in the first season of our Feldenkrais for Life podcast.
Conforming to socially accepted learning norms may create habits of tension in the body/mind. What is the Weber-Fechner law, and how does it apply to learning the Feldenkrais way? Play and problem solving make us smarter.
