After a feet-focussed Awareness through Movement® class this term one of my students said to me that she wished she had done some of this before she had had surgery on her toes – surgery which has unfortunately left her worse off than before. This kind of failed surgery story is not an isolated case […]
Linda Sutherland at Tile Trends on Marion St is ticking off the days to the 5th of November and the New York Marathon. It’s been on her bucket list for ever, she says. Linda’s determined to be FIT and FIFTY. You may have guessed it – Linda turns 50 on the 9th of November so […]
Feldenkrais® practitioners like myself are accustomed to having clients coming for individual lessons saying something like: “I’ve been to a physio (or other physical treatment provider) who says my back/knee/shoulder/neck/ problem is because I have (this or that) weak muscle or set of muscles. So they told me to do these exercises to strengthen them […]
Feldenkrais® trainer Larry Goldfarb tells an amusing story about the time he was asked at a party what he did for a living. “Felden-What?” was the surprised response. I can certainly relate to that! His explanation to the party goer has become so popular it has since been translated into 8 languages. – Alan Cameron, […]
As an artist – an acclaimed practitioner of the aesthetic – the late Len Lye has become internationally known for his “figures of motion”. Like Moshe Feldenkrais he was not interested merely in movement for movement’s sake. He was interested in expressing movement, a universal phenomenon in all things and events, as something experienced in […]
My mother in her mid-to-late 80s had a serious fall while living in a retirement village. Fortunately, she did not suffer any fractures and, though having appeared to have suffered a minor stroke as a result, fully recovered. Her experience was by no means an isolated case. The findings of researchers in the field of […]
In my last blog I talked about what is required for getting down to the ground and rising up from the floor to standing with minimum effort – actions that seem to become difficult as we age. I introduced the idea of spiralling as an essential element of good human action and how this is […]