Felden-WHAT?
The second national Feldenkrais Awareness Week took place 6 — 13 May 2011. Each day of the week, we posted a short Awareness Through Movement lesson. You can listen to them here, or download them as mp3 files; do them at home or during a break at work. Each lesson gives one teacher's idea of what Feldenkrais is for them, or what they particularly enjoy about Feldenkrais. Share the lessons and the article with your friends and family — help spread the word that, through the pleasurable physical riddles of the Feldenkrais Method, we can improve the quality of living.
The perennial question, so necessary to answer but at the same time not so easy to answer, is: What is Feldenkrais? It would be a lot easier if Feldenkrais didn't represent so many different kinds of opportunity to different people; for one, it's a quick solution for injury, for another, it's a resource for skill and learning, for still another, it's a kind of life philosophy. The American Feldenkrais Trainer, Larry Goldfarb, has written a very accessible article that presents his anwer: Felden-WHAT? And these short Awareness Through Movement lessons are themselves practical experiential answers. Enjoy them and share them!
Friday: LESSON 1 — FRESH STANDING
by Catherine McCrum; 13 minutesSaturday: LESSON 2 — TURNING BAD HABITS GOOD
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by Scott Clark; 13 minutesSunday: LESSON 3 — IMPROVE YOUR KNEES
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by Maggy Burrowes; 15 minutesMonday: LESSON 4 — ROLLING YOUR HEAD
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by Nikhila Ludlow; 15 minutesTuesday: LESSON 5 — EASIER SITTING
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by Vreni Booth; 15 minutesWednesday: LESSON 6 — TURNING & THE EYES
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by Sophie Arditti; 8 minutesThursday: LESSON 7 — EXPLORING YOUR JAW
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by Maggy Burrowes; 15 minutesFriday: LESSON 8 — TOES LEARNING FROM FINGERS
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by Scott Clark; 12 minutesWe are grateful to Alonetone, the Internet Archive & Chirbit for hosting the audio files.
or:
right-click here to download from Alonetone
right-click here to download from Internet Archive
click here to listen on Chirbit
2010 Recordings
The recordings from Feldenkrais Awareness Week 2010 may be found here:
7 Tips — 7 Lessons.
Awareness Newsletter
We are distributing an e-mail newsletter as an additional way to spread the news of Feldenkrais Awareness Week; if you would like to subscribe, please add your details here: