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Envisaging the Future of the Feldenkrais Method

by Yochanan Rywerant

(How close are we to Moshe’s vision of Our Profession?)

Modified: 19 May 2024

A clear direction towards the future

This article was first presented to an annual meeting with the Israel Guild. YR was highly concerned what he witnessed. Later, in 2003, the article was published in The Feldenkrais Journal.
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"The future of the Feldenkrais Method lies not only in aiming at a steadily increasing number of practitioners, but also in increasing actively the quality of those practitioners.

Moshe Feldenkrais himself has been very keen in asserting that his Method is not to be considered another kind of physiotherapy or movement training. He was ridiculing the opinion of some people that considered his system as a kind of "body - work." He strongly believed that people can learn to have better control over their actions, and hence be healthier. It had to start with clarifying certain ways the brain perceives and acts and seeing the movements of the body as expressing processes within the central nervous system (CNS)..."

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Envisaging the Future of the Feldenkrais Method

by Yochanan Rywerant

(How close are we to Moshe’s vision of Our Profession?)

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Envisaging the Future of the Feldenkrais Method

by Yochanan Rywerant

(How close are we to Moshe’s vision of Our Profession?)