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In the News (Sun 23 Nov 08)

  
  feldenkraismetoden.org
Feldenkrais introducerade judo i västvärlden genom att undervisa i och skriva böcker om judo, och blev en av de första européerna som fick svart bälte i judo.
Feldenkrais använde metoden med stor framgång på människor med helt olika inlärningsbehov, allt ifrån gravt cp-skadade barn till kända musiker.
Moshe Feldenkrais fortsatte att utveckla metoden fram till sin död 1984.
www.feldenkraismetoden.org /publik/moshefeldenkrais.php   (411 words)

  
  Moshé Feldenkrais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moshé Pinhas Feldenkrais (May 6, 1904 - July 1, 1984) was the founder of the Feldenkrais method of movement education designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness in movement.
Feldenkrais was born on May 6, 1904 in the Ukrainian town of Slavuta.
Feldenkrais fled to Britain just as the Germans were about to arrive in Paris in 1940.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moshe_Feldenkrais   (1105 words)

  
 Feldenkrais In Motion: Moshe Feldenkrais
Moshe Feldenkrais (Doctor of Science, Sorbonne) was an engineer, physicist, martial artist and student of human development.
A knee injury, and uncertain prospects for surgery, began Feldenkrais on what was to become a life-long exploration of the relationships between development, movement, sensing, learning, and awareness, and of manners of operation of the nervous system in functional and dysfunctional activity.
Moshe Feldenkrais worked till his late years with many kinds of people in a wide range of situations - infants and adults with Cerebral Palsy, people in chronic pain, stroke sufferers, leading musicians (such as Yehudi Menuhin), actors (such as Peter Brook's theatre company), premier athletes.
www.feldenkraisinmotion.com.au /fim_moshe_feldenkrais.htm   (351 words)

  
 Moshe Feldenkrais Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Moshe Pinhas Feldenkrais was born on May 6, 1904, in Slavuta, in the present-day Ukrainian Republic.
Feldenkrais was involved in Jewish self-defense groups, and after learning Jujitsu he devised his own self-defense techniques.
Feldenkrais began working with himself to deal with knee troubles that had recurred during his escape from France, and while walking on submarine decks.
www.feldenkrais.com /method/moshebio.html   (855 words)

  
 Welcome to the IFF Public Website | International Feldenkrais Federation
The Feldenkrais Method was developed by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984): The Biography of Feldenkrais shows his diverse fields of study and hints to the sources of the genius of the Method he developed.
I termini "Metodo Feldenkrais", "Conoscersi Attraverso il Movimento", "Consapevolezza Attraverso il Movimento", "Integrazione Funzionale", "Feldenkrais" sono marchi registrati di proprietà dell'AIIMF.
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®;, Functional Integration®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner(cm) are service marks in the United States of the FELDENKRAIS GUILD® of North America.
www.feldenkrais-method.org   (343 words)

  
 Moving On: About Moshe Feldenkrais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Moshé Feldenkrais (Doctor of Science, Sorbonne) was an engineer, physicist, inventor, martial artist and student of human development.
Dr. Feldenkrais was a founder of the Ju Jitsu Club of Paris and was one of the first Europeans to earn a fl belt in Judo.
A knee injury and uncertain prospects for surgery began Feldenkrais on what was to become a life long exploration of the relationship between movement and consciousness.
www.marywilber.com /moshe.html   (408 words)

  
 The Feldenkrais Method
The Feldenkrais Method was originated by Moshé Feldenkrais, D.Sc., a pioneer in movement science and the innovator of therapeutic and educational approaches.
Feldenkrais was born in Russia in 1904 and emigrated to Palestine at the age of 14.
Feldenkrais vast educational system was the result of 40 remarkably productive and creative years during which he focused on the sensory-motor aspects that underlie human action and experience.
www.feldenkraislearning.com /the_method.htm   (536 words)

  
 About Moshe
by Mark Reese, Ph.D. Moshé Feldenkrais was born in Russia in 1904 and emigrated to Palestine at the age of 13.
Within a broad educational context Moshé Feldenkrais was a movement science pioneer who focused especially on the perception of the sensory-motor organization that underlies human behavior and learning.
Feldenkrais died in 1984, leaving a small group of highly trained practitioners who have continued his methods.
www.feldenkraislearning.com /articles/aboutmoshe.htm   (1094 words)

  
 Feldenkrais Practitioner, Charlotte Chavez in Healdsburg, California
Feldenkrais worked so well for her that she again teaches pottery classes and says even her own pottery is improving.
Feldenkrais was a mid-century Renaissance Man, born in Russia in 1904, educated at The Sorbonne, and living in Israel in the late 1940s.
Feldenkrais teaches you how to notice these stressful patterns and replace them with more comfortable, efficient ones, so that, as one practitioner put it, you're not using the force required for chewing a steak to eat a cream puff.
www.sonic.net /~dsscha/Charlotte   (1366 words)

  
 About the Feldenkrais Method   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Feldenkrais is one of the best ways to restore function after an injury and prevent secondary injuries from unconscious compensations.
Feldenkrais spent the rest of his life developing his new method of movement education, and helped thousands of people with a wide variety of challenges.
Feldenkrais is the most sophisticated and effective method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function.
www.easymovement.com /about.html   (1556 words)

  
 Effortless Gardening | About Feldenkrais
Feldenkrais® is especially suited for gardeners because, just as gardening is an ever-evolving project, the Feldenkrais Method®; is based on the continual expansion and refinement of action.
Developed by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), an Israeli physicist and engineer, the Feldenkrais Method is a sensory-motor teaching approach that uses the mind-body connection to facilitate easier movement and increase awareness.
Feldenkrais' premise is that a shift in a person's movement patterns will also shift the way that person thinks, senses, feels, and interacts with others.
www.effortlessgardening.com /feldenkrais.html   (652 words)

  
 FELDENKRAIS TECHNIQUE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Moshe Feldenkrais was a Russian born engineer who began to study how people moved while he was recovering from a knee injury.
Feldenkrais practitioners believe that people develop these poor habits as children and keep these patterns for life.
Feldenkrais teachers also emphasize that it is helpful for improving balance, coordination and mobility.
www.healthyroads.com /mylibrary/data/altcaredex/htm/amm0022.asp   (472 words)

  
 About Moshe Feldenkrais, creator of the Feldenkrais Method.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Engineer and martial artist, Moshe Feldenkrais was born in the Ukraine in 1904 and immigrated to Palestine in his teens.
Feldenkrais studied judo becoming a fl belt and founding the Judo Club of Paris.
Feldenkrais began studying human development and movement science in order to regain his own mobility after an old knee injury.
www.awarenessmoves.co.uk /page6.html   (142 words)

  
 Our Work at The Feldenkrais® Institute of Bend
Feldenkrais was a renaisance man in his thinking who as a result of injuries suffered in sports and judo, when no competent surgical intervention was available, found the means within himself to recover and improve his ability to move and function.
The work Moshe did with himself lead him to working in his innovative way with others who suffered from obstacles to their performance and functioning.
Moshe died in July of 1984 as an indirect result of injuries he suffered in an automobile accident in Zurich in 1981.
www.feldenkraisofbend.com /our_work_2.html   (314 words)

  
 Moshé Feldenkrais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1918, at the age of 13, he left his family to emigrate to Palestine, the land of his Jewish ancestry, where he worked, completed his high-school diploma, and studied self-defense, including Jiu jitsu.
Moshe Feldenkrais Biography (http://www.feldenkrais-method.org/biography.html) from the International Feldenkrais Federation
A Concise Biography of Moshe Feldenkrais (http://www.feldenkrais.com/method/moshebio.html) by Mark Reese
www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Moshe_Feldenkrais   (1058 words)

  
 Self-Realization through Horseback Riding and Feldenkrais
My name is Sandy Kessler, and I use horseback riding and the Feldenkrais Method as a way to help people increase their physical, mental, and emotional self awareness, for improving both their own movement and their personal and interpersonal functioning.
The Feldenkrais Method is a learning process aimed at enabling a person to maximize potential through developing awareness of their body.
The Feldenkrais method defines "posture" as a state from which a person moves with the greatest efficiency and with the least amount of conscious preparation.
www.ariga.com /sandy/sandy.htm   (1994 words)

  
 MoshÈ Feldenkrais Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Feldenkrais was a founder of the Ju Jitsu Club of Paris and was one of the first Europeans to earn a fl belt in Judo.
Feldenkrais studied, among other things, anatomy, physiology, child development, movement science, evolution, psychology, a number of Eastern awareness practices and other somatic approaches.
In his life Dr. Feldenkrais worked with all kinds of people with an enormous range of learning needs -from many infants with Cerebral Palsy to leading performers such as the violinist, the late Yehudi Menuhin.
www.feldenkrais-method.org /biography.html   (359 words)

  
 Toronto 2004 - 2009
Over a number of decades, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904 - 1984) synthesized his vast knowledge in physics, engineering, judo, learning theory, Eastern traditions, biology and psychology into a method which shows that learning to learn is a prerequisite for a life in which change, improvement and maturation are possible at any age.
Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., took his classical training in physics and engineering, and worked at the Curie Institute in Paris as a colleague of Nobel Prize laureate Frederic Joliot-Curie.
Moshe Feldenkrais provided a great gift of insight and methodology, which continues to change lives of both practitioners and their students.
www.feldenkrais-method.ca /home.html   (591 words)

  
 Working in Movement : Working in Movement
There is the story of Moshe Feldenkrais hurting his knees, declining an operation and then teaching himself to use the damaged knees with what would eventually come to be known as the Feldenkrais Method.
Feldenkrais' real history not only makes a better story, but also makes some of the principles of his Method a lot more accessible to the public.
Oddly, Feldenkrais found that he could suddenly walk on the knee injured in the soccer game, the one that he couldn't walk on before this new injury.
radio.weblogs.com /0128836/2004/03/12.html   (538 words)

  
 Feldenkrais Resources | 800.765.1907 | 510.540.7683 fax
We are one of the oldest and most active Feldenkrais training and somatic education organizations in the world.
Feldenkrais Resources is also the exclusive publisher of Dr. Feldenkrais' extensive audio/visual programs and distributor of books by the world's leading Feldenkrais Practitioners.
In Moshe Feldenkrais� Functional Integration work he emphasized the importance of the carriage of the head and neck in human...
www.feldenkrais-resources.com   (229 words)

  
 Sugi Studios - Feldenkrais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In Sugi Studios Feldenkrais lessons, we guide students through simple movement sequences while they are standing, sitting or lying on the floor, or sitting in a chair.
An unusual melding of motor development, bio-mechanics, psychology, and martial arts, The Feldenkrais Method is recognized for its demonstrated ability to improve posture, flexibility, coordination, self-image, and to alleviate muscular tension and pain.
Feldenkrais' insights contributed to the development of the new field of somatic education and continue to influence disciplines such as physical medicine, gerontology, the arts, education and psychology.
sugistudios.com /feldenkrais.html   (831 words)

  
 Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Feldenkrais Resources is proud to announce the publication of a wonderful new video, "The Feldenkrais Method with Children who have Learning Disabilities" by Chava Shelhav, Feldenkrais Teacher, lecturer, researcher, and one of Moshe Feldenkrais' original Israeli students.
Feldenkrais Resources is proud to present, The Feldenkrais Method Project at the Mosaik School, an insightful and moving documentary on the Feldenkrais Method at work in a school for mentally handicapped children in Germany.
Moshe felt that formal anatomy was not something to be taught in a training program, but that instead, a student's interest in anatomy would emerge from seeking answers to the concrete questions which arise in Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration.
www.feldenkrais-resources.com /products.htm   (10634 words)

  
 FELEDENKRAIS-ITC TRAINING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Some had worked with Moshe Feldenkrais for more than 30 years and all of them bring their extensive experience of directing and teaching in professional training programmes since his death in 1984.
She was a student in Feldenkrais' final training in the US and Israel, from which she graduated in 1983.
She brings her extensive experience in Feldenkrais trainings and her innovative thinking to create and oversee the conceptual framework over the four years of the course.
www.feldenkrais-itc.org /training2.html   (396 words)

  
 Public Workshops and Classes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Feldenkrais uses many "tricks" to accelerate the learning of these postures: movement variations, new focuses of attention, non habitual movements, new ways to move in and out of the posture and smaller steps of approach.
She began to study with Moshe Feldenkrais in the early 1950's, was the first person trained by him, and the first person he asked to be an Assistant.
Mia Segal was born in Israel, and began to study directly with Moshe Feldenkrais in the early 1950's.
www.feldenkraisresources.com /workshops.htm   (1870 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Body Awareness As Healing Therapy: The Case of Nora   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sometimes when reading his books it seems to me that Moshe was so overloaded with multidimensional thinking, that he had a sense of needing to compromise painfully in order to unfold his ideas on the flat dimension of a written text.
The great educator, Professor Moshe Feldenkrais, describes his work in "An Adventure in the Jungle of the Brain" (Abenteuer im Dschungel des Gehirns) as this book is titled in German.
Feldenkrais describes in detail all the steps he takes to discover how he can facilitate her brain to reajust and regenerate her capabilities to cope with the world again.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1883319080?v=glance   (1421 words)

  
 Optimal Health - Moshe Feldenkrais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Dr Moshe Feldenkrais was born in Russia and left home at 13 to travel to Palestine.
After suffering crippling knee injuries, Dr Feldenkrais used his own body as his laboratory and merged his acquired knowledge with his deep curiosity about biology, human development, cybernetics, linguistics and systems theory.
Feldenkrais studied intensively in neurophysiology, psychology and other health-related disciplines and in 1949 returned to Israel where he continued to develop and refine his ideas into the system known as the Feldenkrais Method.
homepage.idx.com.au /baylins/soma/moshe.htm   (166 words)

  
 Moshe Feldenkrais
William "Dub" Leigh, personally trained by Ida Rolf and Moshe Feldenkrais, was interviewed by us and this appeared in issue 12 May/June 1996.
Feldenkrais focused on changing maladaptive patterns by bringing into awareness the motor components of undesired behavior.
Moshe would exaggerate the aberration, forcing the dominant muscle to relax since he was doing its work and stretching the inferior muscle and rejuvenating it with a new, fresh flow of blood.
www.positivehealth.com /permit/Articles/People/felden.htm   (2284 words)

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