For people who want to take advantage of WHY FELDENKRAIS?
1. Because your brain gets better, too.
Research is showing how your brain changes
as it learns. Scientists call it
"neuroplasticity" -- the brain's
extraordinary ability to acquire more
efficient patterns of movement and action if
given the right environment. Nothing creates
that environment like the Feldenkrais
Method.
Feldenkrais generates the
precise
conditions that access the intelligence of
your nervous system, so you can learn and
function at your best.
- Eliminate aches, pains and discomfort: Discover the safe and easy way to feel better. Renew and restore your body any time you want without stretching or boring workouts.
- Move smarter: Recover from injuries faster and keep old injuries from recurring. Understand how the whole body participates in the process of recovery and prevention.
- Effortless posture: Learn to move easily in gravity and be upright with minimum effort and maximum skeletal support.
- Deeper, sounder sleep: Better relaxation means better repair. Give your body the rest it deserves.
- Improve the Basics: Sit, stand and walk with dynamic balance, and poise that moves with you.
- Higher performance: Incorporate the neurological advantages and sensory skills used by top musicians, dancers, actors and athletes.
EVENING WORKSHOPS:
- A Force Up and Through: A Workshop for Dancers (Tuesday, Sept 9)
- For the Fun of It: This is Why You Do Feldenkrais (Tuesday, Sept 23)
WEEKEND WORKSHOPS:
- Seeing Clearly: A Feldenkrais Method Exploration of Vision (Fri-Sun, Sept 12-14)
- Neurological Diplomacy with Ruthy Alon (Oct 31 - Nov 3)
- Watch the new video produced by the FELDENKRAIS Educational Foundation of North America
- Theory of Brains: To date, there hasn't been an overarching theory of how the human brain really works, Jeff Hawkins argues in this compelling talk. That's because we still haven't defined intelligence accurately. But one thing's for sure, he says: The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.
- Susan Savage-Rumbaugh (see the video) asks whether uniquely human traits, and other animals' behaviors, are hardwired by species. Then she rolls a video that makes you think: maybe not. The bonobo apes she works with understand spoken English. One follows her instructions to take a cigarette lighter from her pocket and use it to start a fire. Bonobos are shown making tools, drawing symbols to communicate, and playing Pac-Man -- all tasks learned just by watching. Maybe it's not always biology that causes a species to act as it does, she suggests. Maybe it's cultural exposure to how things are done.