Feldenkrais for Life podcast

We discuss how reframing an illness can improve the healing process. How your brain is predictive, and how to build resilience through intentionally engaging in challenging situations. Visit: https://AchievingExcellence.com and https://DonnaRay.com to learn more about Donna and Al and to explore our class and product offerings.

Differentiation is a crucial concept in the Feldenkrais Method® . We discuss and define differentiation and give lots of examples and a guided movement experience so you can sense the differences. We discuss differentiation in emotions, movement, thinking, and sensing.   Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from...

A fundamental concept of the Feldenkrais Method® is the brain cannot think without motor movement. We get into this concept through some movement explorations and discussions. We talk about thinking, feeling, sensing, and acting and how we move our attention to these different domains of experience as needed in our daily experience. Shifting our attention like this is primarily outside our conscio...

We talk about the work of Alia Crum and the studies she has done on mindsets and their influence on our health and biology. We get into the effects of social suggestions on aging. We discuss auto-suggestion and how health care providers could improve their communication skills. We return to Dr. Feldenkrais and his interest in auto-suggestion and hypnosis and how these concepts became influential i...

How does the mind influence the brain? It was a widely held belief that the mind was a result of the brain, and the mind could not reflect and affect the functioning of the brain. It was just around 2000 that this belief started to change. Dr. Feldenkrais understood this decades ago and applied the idea of using the mind to change the brain in his Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integra...

What is reversibility? Dr. Feldenkrais considered this an essential concept of the Feldenkrais Method® . We give examples and do some explorations with reversibility. We also discuss good posture, cultivating quality movement, and choice. We end with how the method is generalized to daily life and how the benefits show up spontaneously without practice. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Vis...

We discuss the functioning of the mouth and jaw. What is the relationship between the jaw, neck, and eyes? How does the pelvis influence the functioning of the jaw? What part does the tongue play in a well-organized jaw? We discuss and explore these ideas in this podcast, which introduces our audio program, "Release Jaw Tension Now." https://achievingexcellence.com/release-jaw-tension-now/ Visit D...

We discuss a concept Dr. Feldenkrais presents in his book Body and Mature Behavior. Which is that there are two paths of development. One is the pathway of improvement in which a person continues to make finer and finer distinctions. The other is the pathway of decline in which a person lumps their experience into larger and larger categories. We discuss this in reference to movement, the Feldenkr...

Why rest? When to rest? How does resting improve learning and productivity? There is resting as in naps, and there are rests that help us learn. Waking rests helps improve and integrate what you were just doing—facilitating learning. Resting can reset the brain and nervous system for improved performance.   Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com G...

What happens in the brain as we age? How can we use the Feldenkrais Method® to continue to improve ourselves and do the things that are important to us in life? We each share our insights on how the Feldenkrais Method can keep you moving and vital while aging. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingE...

We discuss how Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett's books "How Emotions Are Made" and "7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain" confirm what Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais taught decades ago and offers a modern way to language what we do as Feldenkrais practitioners. We go into detail about how language creates an internal response in the speaker and listener. Language matters while guiding Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movem...

What is spontaneity? How do social constraints inhibit our spontaneity? Experience spontaneous changes through Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® Lessons. Discover how we develop responsiveness to our changing environment. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingExcellence.com. Use coupon awesome...

We talk about implicit memory, explicit memory, and re-evaluating memories to create a new present-day experience. We discuss childhood development and learning and how we build new memories while experiencing Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement lessons®. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingEx...

We discuss the Feldenkrais Method referencing: sensing, thinking, moving, and feeling. We define what a "category of experience" is and create a category to build a new referential concept. We also consider the pleasure of an un-categorized sensory experience and what is the Weber-Fechner principle. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your...

Learn to move from negative states into positive ones. Experience pleasant sensations of the present moment. Integrate feelings for more effortless flow from one state to another with the Feldenkrais Method. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingExcellence.com. Use coupon awesome-podcast to save 20%...

We discuss the concept of Prediction Error Correction as   Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett presents it in her book, "How Emotions Are Made," from subtle adjustments in our nervous system to errors that cause accidents. This process is an essential element in developmental learning and Feldenkrais lessons.   Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your...

What is truth?   We find a unique reality in the contact of the heels on the floor. We explore the idea of a body budget.   Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingExcellence.com. Use coupon awesome-podcast to save 20%.

We consider the impact the restrictions of the pandemic have had on our brains and nervous systems. We discuss strategies to reduce stress from Zooming and computer use. Why is it "incorrect to correct" from Dr. Feldenkrais's point of view? How do  Feldenkrais lessons provide a better way to self-improve? Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get...

We discuss pain as a motivator to seek the Feldenkrais Method® ; how movement affects acute pain and chronic pain. Donna shares how she managed pain and regained the use of her hand and arm using the Feldenkrais Method.  Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingExcellence.com. Use coupon awesome-podcas...

The Feldenkrais Method® can enhance and invigorate your mindful practice. Whatever your practice - yoga, meditation, Tai-Chi, Aikido, or moving boulders - Feldenkrais lessons can make what you do easier. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingExcellence.com. Use coupon awesome-podcast to save 20%.

The Feldenkrais Method® includes movement, sensing, thinking, and feeling in the development of Awareness. Movement quality, how you move, integrates these primary aspects of the experience. Recognize the pattern of anxiety as described by Dr. Feldenkrais in his book, The Elusive Obvious.  Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feld...

What is the difference between implicit and explicit memories? Learn to make pleasant memories stick. Become familiar with strategies of learning within the Feldenkrais Method ®. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingExcellence.com. Use coupon awesome-podcast to save 20%.

Conforming to socially accepted learning norms may create habits of tension in the body/mind. What is the Weber-Fechner law, and how does it apply to learning the Feldenkrais Way? Play and problem solving make us smarter. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingExcellence.com. Use coupon awesome-podca...

Learn about Dr. Feldenkrais and the professional trainings he developed. Consider, competence, confidence, and how beliefs shape our self-image. Donna shares how she became a painter and Al discusses how he overcame his voice's significant limitations. Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from AchievingExcellenc...

Join us, and experience simple, easy-to-do, powerful Feldenkrais movements that demonstrate the nature of habit.   Visit Donna's site: https://DonnaRay.com Visit Al's Site: https://AchievingExcellence.com Get your first Feldenkrais lesson from https://AchievingExcellence.com. Use coupon awesome-podcast to save 20%.