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International Feldenkrais Week 2026
Happy Birthday Moshe – a man who was way ahead of his time.
The fundamental principle of The Feldenkrais Method is that the brain can change and make new connections and reorganise how we move.
Born 1904, Moshe Feldenkrais was developing this work in the 1940’s and 50’s, and yet what we now know as ‘neuroplasticity’ was not a mainstream concept until the 1990’s and early 2000’s.
To celebrate International Feldenkrais Week in 2026, a new series of six Awareness Through Movement lessons on the theme of ‘Unpacking Posture’ were released – below are descriptions, or skip straight to the lessons.
For many people, when they think about improving their posture, what they’re looking for is a feeling of uprightness. They often go about this by contracting the muscles of their abdomen and back, which can feel like hard work. It is much more useful, however, to think of the internal support we get from our skeleton, in order to discover uprightness in an easy, effortless way – in particular through clarifying our sense of our spine. After doing this lesson many people feel taller, lighter and more grounded.
Find out more about Jackie Adkins
This lesson explores ways breathing can enable us to be more easily upright. Do it sitting on a chair unless you are super comfortable on the floor.
That posture can enable or compromise breathing is well known. However I like how this lesson turns that on its head, offering us simple ways to explore the space we can find for breath in a few different sitting positions and notice how that can support us to be upright more easily.
Find out more about Victoria Worsley
Lifting the head is a basic function taken from the sequence of human development. Control of lifting the head is necessary before other steps of the developmental sequence can take place: rolling over, crawling, sitting, standing and walking. Re-visiting such a basic function can have a profound effect on being upright.
This is one of my all time favourite lessons; its one of my go-to lessons if I feel I’ve been sitting too much or at my computer for too long. It’s one I like teaching to anyone able to lie on the stomach: many people find it to be a magic lesson as lifting the head, lying on the stomach and even standing upright often becomes easier.
Find out more about Tina Tribe
Isn’t it hard work, all this remembering to ‘stand up straight’, ‘shoulders back’, ‘chin up!’ being examples of the many and varied messages we typically had drilled into us as kids? There is another way: your spine, that wonderful chain of interlocking bones that is both at once flexible and strong, topped by your head, pelvis at its base, is a fundamental key to better posture. Not so much by holding them in a certain way which has to be done via conscious thought, but by awareness combined with attention to the motion of rotating it around itself. This is what this lesson explores, gently, simply, lightly
Find out more about Nikhila Em Ludlow
This lesson makes use of an unusual position that allows gravity to help your shoulders slide back more easily. The movements are more challenging, but can be highly effective if you move gently and in your comfortable range.
When I think of unpacking posture, I think of the postural notion that the shoulders should be pulled back. Before encountering Feldenkrais, my shoulders were often pulled forward, and the only way I could change this was through pulling them back, which took so much effort it hurt. This lesson is not only great for counteracting this tendency of the shoulders, but also unpacks the idea that the shoulders should always be back — for sphinxes, having the shoulders back is like collapsing or slumping, and makes them shorter! I return to this lesson often for the feeling of finding effortless width across my shoulders, as well as an effortless sense of uprightness and a freer, better supported neck.
Find out more about Joe Reynolds
A jelly-like lesson, which starts slowly. It’s about asking the bones to line up and relate directly to each other for support. Clarity of support leads to clarity of posture. If we know our support well, movement happens from a place where anything is possible, rather than fighting to move against over-working stability.
Find out more about Shelagh O’Neill
Finding a lesson to suit
Lessons are uploaded every year from the recordings made by our teachers for the annual International Feldenkrais Week. Each year has a different theme. When you scroll down you will find the name of the lesson, the name of the teacher, the position(s) for doing the lesson, and the duration.
You can find out more about the teacher by clicking on their name and viewing their profile.
If you are new to Feldenkrais, here’s what you need to know before you start a lesson:
Get comfortable
Remove shoes, belt, glasses.
For lying down lessons spread a mat or blanket on the floor. A folded towel can be placed under your head if you need additional support.
Chair lessons are best done on a firm upright chair without armrests. The seat height should be such that your feet are able to be fully in contact with the floor.
Keep it easy
Do the movements lightly not forcefully. With curiosity rather than trying to get it right. Rests are built into the lessons but feel free to pause the recording to rest at any time you need to.
Listen to yourself
Respect any limitations in your own movement and move only within your comfortable range. Moving small and slow focuses our attention and deepens our awareness.
At the end of the lesson, allow yourself a few moments to move around slowly and enjoy whatever feels new before returning to normal activities.
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