Name: The Feldenkrais Method
SKU: 10809
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This book brings the Feldenkrais Method® and the concept of Somatic Education to a wide audience. As well as providing an introduction to the Feldenkrais Method® and its applications, a team of highly qualified contributors, representing a variety of therapeutic professions, explore how the Feldenkrais Method® interacts with and supports other professions and modalities, including Pilates, yoga, dance, physical therapy, sports coaching, rehabilitation medicine, and more. (See the table of contents for full details.)

Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), the founder of the Feldenkrais Method®, built his Method around the concept of improving human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement. The concept of neuroplasticity – the brain’s amazing capacity to change and adapt – was one of Feldenkrais’ basic tenets of how the brain organizes movement, and is now in our daily lexicon. Pain, illness and injuries all affect how our nervous system and brain react to events in us and around us. Feldenkrais’ thesis is that our nervous system always does the best it can with the information it has, and learning through the nervous system is the theme that runs through this book.

Coverage includes:

Comparisons about similarities as well as differences between the different modalities.
Theory and practice of how the Feldenkrais Method® can be applied in a variety of specific settings.
Coverage of the research base that supports evidence-informed practices for clients
Online video of theory and practice accessed by QR codes throughout the book

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1

Who Was Moshe Feldenkrais? Chrish Kresge and Elinor Silverstein

Feldenkrais® as a System of Learning Jeff Haller

The Importance of the Brain, Nervous System, and Body in Learning Susan Hillier

Training Feldenkrais® Teachers Larry Goldfarb

Function, Differentiation, and Integration Lisa Burrell

The Feldenkrais Method®, Science, and Spirituality: A Historical Perspective Matthew Zepelin

Part 2

Moshe Dō: From Martial Art to Feldenkrais® Art Moti Nativ

Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®: Transforming the Lives of Children with Special Needs Anat Baniel

Integrating the Feldenkrais Method® into Scholastic Learning Eilat Almagor and Dorit Aharonov

Movement Intelligence® for Bone Health and Graceful Aging Ruthy Alon

My Path from Feldenkrais® to the Tellington TTouch Method® Linda Tellington-Jones

Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma Donna Ray

Creativity: Thinking While Moving Lavinia Plonka

Feldenkrais® for Music and Voice

A Behind the Music Andrew Gibbons

B Voice/Singing Marina Gilman

The Feldenkrais Method® and Dance Paul Pui Wo Lee

The Feldenkrais Method® and a Theater of Enaction Thomas Kampe

Moving to Learn, Training to Win Dwight Pargee

Feldenkrais® to Enhance Yoga Staffan Elgelid

Somatic Education: Feldenkrais® and Pilates Stacy Barrows and Matthew Barrows

Part 3

The Feldenkrais Method® in Orthopedics Staffan Elgelid

The Feldenkrais Method® in the Rehabilitation of Neurological Conditions Karol Connors

Pain and Curiosity Deborah Bowes

Practical Maturity: The Feldenkrais Method® and Human Development Cliff Smyth

A Future Vision of the Feldenkrais Method® Chrish Kresge

The Feldenkrais Method

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