Cherry Hill Feldenkrais(sm) / Movement Improvement 4 The Mobile Mind

09/28/2023

From 2015, Scott Pelley’s report on brain cancer patients that are in clinical trials of a therapy that uses a re-engineered polio virus to kill cancer cells...

07/29/2023

Consuming strawberries daily was found to improve cognitive function by increasing processing speed by 5.2%.

12/30/2019

Max had one hip replaced, and despite his orthopedist’s recommendation, he decided against having the other side done. Instead, he took one pill a day for pain, attended my Awareness Through Movement® lessons weekly, and visited his physical therapist to keep moving.

06/14/2019

Study identifies a population of neurons in an area of the midbrain, called the red nucleus, that alter when fine motor skills are learned. The more an action is practiced, the stronger the connections between these neurons become.

03/02/2018

A documentary about Moshe Feldenkrais and the method he created.

11/17/2017

Therapists show patients how their posture and behavior contribute to their pain and physical limitations.

07/16/2017

Anyone in Pain?

06/30/2017

Moshe Feldenkrais

The Feldenkrais Method® was originated by Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., a pioneer in movement science and the innovator of therapeutic and educational approaches. Feldenkrais was born in Russia in 1904 and immigrated to Palestine at the age of 14. He undertook this journey without his family as a member of a caravan from his village. As a young man, he was an excellent athlete and through the influence of a British officer, learned Ju-Jitsu. He was both a very physical young man and an excellent student with a creative mind. Even at a young age he was interested in the inner development of the human being. He was influenced by Coue's work in autosuggestion and early writings on both the unconscious mind and the self-image.

Feldenkrais earned his doctorate in physics at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he assisted Nobel Prize Laureate Frederic Joliot-Curie at the Curie Institute. During his university years, he met Kano, the originator of Judo. He became one of the first Europeans to receive a black belt in Judo and was the founder of the French Judo Association. Feldenkrais studied Judo intensively and became a well-known Judo teacher.

During World War II, Feldenkrais went to England where he worked in antisubmarine research, trained paratroopers in self-defense techniques and authored books on Judo. He aggravated an old soccer injury to his knees and began many years of extended work on himself. His own recovery process and subsequent wide-ranging research resulted in the creation of the unique educational system — the Feldenkrais Method & it's components: Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® — which incorporated his background in Physics and Judo along with a lifelong interest in Human Development.
Upon moving to Israel, he gave up his work as an engineer and researcher and proceeded to use his genius to directly help people live more fulfilling lives. Feldenkrais was fluent in six languages and authored six books on his method. Feldenkrais died in 1984, leaving a small group of highly-trained practitioners who have continued to teach his method worldwide.

06/29/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_0Nh_6EZY8

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Once you change the direction, amount of effort, or the spacial orientation, the brain has to fire differently. Credits: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfmp/videos...