Lavinia Plonka: Welcome to the Feldenkrais Summit, Move Better, Feel Better. And we’re on our track dealing with different kinds of physical challenges. And I’m very excited to be able to introduce you today to Mercedes Von Deck. Not only is she an orthopedic surgeon who graduated from Harvard Medical School, but she has degrees …
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We are all about life-long learning. But learning about what? We are particularly interested in learning to move better and feeling better. If we take walking as one example, virtually every one of us can improve this “basic” function. But we think we walk just fine. We think we walk “good enough.” We want to …
The New York Times recently wrote a wonderful article about the Feldenkrais Method™. And it echoes some of the things we’ve been saying and some things we’ve been seeing at Future Life Now.
The world lost a somatic pioneer on December 31, 2020, when Ruthy Alon left this earth. One of the initial students of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, she later went on to write her own book, Mindful Spontaneity, and to create her life’s work, the Bones for Life program in her mid-60’s. But she didn’t stop there, …
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One of the presenters at our latest Future Life Now summit, Turning Challenges into Possibilities for the Special Needs Family: Feldenkrais® Awareness Summit is Anat Baniel. We are thrilled to have Anat presenting “Breakthroughs for Children on the Autism Spectrum” on Day 3. Autism Spectrum Disorder is defined by the Centers for Disease Control …
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If you haven’t had the opportunity to meet Donald Ryker, he’s a pretty extraordinary man and an even more impressive artist. We’re pleased to have him as a panelist at our Turning Challenges into Possibilities for the Special Needs Family Summit. But we thought Donald’s story should be shared with more people, people who …
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Having a child with atypical development, in any realm, does not mean your child needs to live a life of limitations. In most cases, it means that they (and you, the parents) have some challenges to overcome. There will be a lot of work, an incredible amount of understanding, some trial and error, methods that …
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What is movement intelligence? Movement Intelligence is a series of programs developed by Ruthy Alon, an early student of the Feldenkrais Method® with Moshe Feldenkrais himself. It takes the concept behind her Feldenkrais training and dives deeper into the idea of moving your body as nature designed it to move. In Movement Intelligence classes, the …
If you’re brand new to the Feldenkrais Method® and would like to learn more, we’re here to, hopefully, answer some of your questions and introduce you to a new way of thinking about health. Q: What is the Feldenkrais Method? A: The Feldenkrais Method, put simply, is a way to improve physical and …
Cynthia Allen has released a new video on how the mind works. It starts with a Rubik’s cube and then travel through the mind and and the ways in which the Feldenkrais Method seeks to capitalize on the brain’s capacity to solve puzzles.