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Moshe Feldenkrais

Moshe Feldenkrais was an Israeli physicist and the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement. Born in 1904, Moshe grew [ ... ]

Resources/Publications

Books

    • Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949; New York: International Universities Press, 1950 (softcover edition, out of print); Tel-Aviv: Alef Ltd., 1966, 1980, 1988 (hardcover edition).

    • Awareness Through Movement: Health Exercises for Personal Growth. New York/London: Harper & Row 1972, 1977; Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1972, 1977 (hardcover edition, out of print); Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1972, 1977; San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1990 (softcover edition).

    • The Case of Nora: Body Awareness as Healing Therapy. New York/London: Harper & Row, 1977 (out of print).

    • The Elusive Obvious. Cupertino, California: Meta Publications, 1981.

    • The Master Moves. Cupertino, California: Meta Publications, 1984, (softcover edition.)

    • The Potent Self. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985. Harper Collins, New York, 1992, (softcover edition.)

    • 50 Lessons by Dr. Feldenkrais. Noah Eshkol. Tel-Aviv, Israel: Alef Publishers, 1980 (written in Movement Notation).

Articles and transcribed lectures

    • "A Non-Specific Treatment." The Feldenkrais Journal, No. 6, 1991. (Lecture from 1975 Training Program, edited by Mark Reese.)

    • "Awareness Through Movement." Annual Handbook for Group Facilitators. John E. Jones and J. William Pfeiffer (eds.). La Jolla, CA: University Associates, 1975.

    • "Bodily Expression." Somatics, Vol. 6, No. 4, Spring/Summer 1988. (Translated from the French by Thomas Hanna.)

    • "Bodily Expression (Conclusion)." Somatics, Vol. 7, No. 1, Autumn/Winter 1988-89.

    • "Learn to Learn." Booklet. Washington D.C.: ATM Recordings, 1980.

    • "On Health." Dromenon, Vol. 2, No. 2, August/September 1979.

    • "On the Primacy of Hearing." Somatics, Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 1976.

    • "Man and the World." Somatics, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1979. Reprinted in Explorers of Humankind, Thomas Hanna (ed.). San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.

    • "Mind and Body." Two lectures in Systematics: The Journal of the Institute for the Comparative Study of History, Philosophy and the Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 1964. Reprinted in Your Body Works, Gerald Kogan (ed.). Berkeley: Transformations, 1980.

    • "Self-Fulfillment Through Organic Learning." Journal of Holistic Health, Vol. 7, 1982. (Lecture delivered at the Mandala Conference, San Diego, 1981, edited by Mark Reese.)

Websites

The Feldenkrais Method
Feldenkrais Movement Institute

 

 
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Suzanne Thompson

Suzanne got her masters in  Theater and Speech Therapy from East Texas State University. She completed her post-graduate work at the Dallas Theatre Center. She is an actor, director, choreogr [ ... ]