What yochananrywerant.com is about

This is a work in progress including written material, links and references. It is a dynamic source, which is aimed for readers with various levels of background and knowledge encompassing the Feldenkrais inquiry.

I primarily want to create, write and publish material within a narrow field, namely the Feldenkrais profession and simultaneously including the exploratory path otherwise known as the Feldenkrais Method.

Writing about this subject is not as simple as giving someone a Feldenkrais lesson, either individually or in a group format, where it is possible to rely on the subjective experience of non-verbal information arising within the person concerned. Reading is only words and language, while lessons are organic and self-understood.

I encountered Feldenkrais during an extended stay in Israel while studying physiotherapy at the Wingate Institute between 1972-75. In 1974 I began to partake in the Alexander Yanai open ATM classes. I am celebraiting my 50th anniversary with the Feldenkrais process.

I am a third generation Feldenkrais practitioner, educated in Stockholm in a basic training during the years 1988 -1991 and an additional Trainers Training in the years 1994 -1996. I am trained by Yochanan Rywerant in the A B C of the profession, the meta A B C and the meta meta A B C as well. I have done additional advanced trainings with TAB trainers as well as Mia Segal.

I have continued to be an insatiable autodidact, and the consistent interweaving of theory with the practical teaching, that I received from YR from the beginning, made me professionally independent in my teaching capacity from the start.

I have had my own practice with teaching the Feldenkrais Method continuously since 1991. This includes meta teaching seminars as for advanced studies with teachers educated in the TAB format. Since 1998 I have been writing for different Feldenkrais Forums. I have a professional and personal interest to construct websites and to write about the Feldenkrais Method and associated subjects.

My intention with this website is to supplement and occasionally refute the material published about Moshe Feldenkrais from other sources. Another purpose of the site is to write and present YR's films, books and articles, including an overview of his teaching, work and biographical facts.

I call the Feldenkrais Method I learned from Yochanan Rywerant, and indirectly Moshe Feldenkrais, Classical. It is traditional in style and form, based on a Method developed and having existed over a long period of time, from the early times in Tel Aviv, still being vibrant.

In numerous articles, I intend to clarify and differentiate what Classical Feldenkrais means and entails and focus it in relation to the common widespread Feldenkrais movement teaching.

This exisitence of Classical Feldenkrais also urges for re-establishing the role that Yochanan Rywerant should rightfully have within the profession, which could close the gap created by years of marginalization, neglect, and invisibility.

At the time of this writing, it is forty years since Moshe Feldenkrais, the Method's originator, died.
Forty years is, according to the Jewish tradition, the time span that Bnei Israel spent in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt before they arrived to Eretz Israel. The overall explanation in Jewish sources states that 40 years is the time required to change the  paradigm and mindset, from being a slave to becoming a free person. Forty years in this metaphor is an epoch equivalent to a generation.

On the other hand, forty years can be indicative of a loss of knowledge of original thoughts and intentions. Without the teachings of Yochanan Rywerant, the deficit of learning is evident for many generations of practitioners of the Feldenkrais Method. My hope is that the contents of this website can bridge this gap.

I suggest you continue with the article Classical Feldenkrais but of course you can choose your own path and search freely.