Envisaging the Future of the Feldenkrais Method
(How close are we to Moshe’s vision of Our Profession?)
A Clear Direction Towards the Future
This article was first presented at an annual meeting of the Israel Guild. Rywerant was deeply concerned by what he witnessed. The article was published in THE FELDENKRAIS JOURNAL, No. 15, Winter 2003.
Editor: Elisabeth Beringer
The article can be read either in its original printed version or as a transcription.
“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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(How close are we to Moshe’s vision of Our Profession?)
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Envisaging the Future of the Feldenkrais Method
(How close are we to Moshe’s vision of Our Profession?)
Three-Fold Complexity
Instructional material on Functional Integration, referred to in this article and presented as part of an advanced training in Israel by Yochanan Rywerant in 2006.
A structured description of Functional Integration addressing three concurrent levels in practice: orientation of action, handling of interference, and integration of change.