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.)
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