A (Not So New, But Interesting) Moshe Feldenkrais Biography
Picture of Moshe Feldenkrais With The Halo Digitally Removed
“The situation was critical and they wanted to amputate his leg, but he absolutely refused. It took a very long time for the knee to heal. In the meantime, he read books that he’d brought from the Ukraine, especially math and physics books.”
Luckily, Moshe did not spend his time reading the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, or we would be living in a very different world today.
Enjoy: Moshe Feldenkrais Biography Here is the article as pdf if you would like to download a copy: Feldenkrais Haaretz
Update: I just found a letter to the editor regarding the article above. It was written by Eli Wadler, one of Moshe’s original students in Israel. It reads, in part:
“The world accepts Moshe as a poet, a philosopher, and a person brave enough to make statements that are against what is known and widely accepted, in all areas related to the behavior of mankind as individuals and as a society. Nobody would have celebrated with so much love and respect the birthday of this man only because of his so-called “piquant” qualities, which have been given too much weight in the article.” You can read the rest here:
http://www.haaretz.com/letters-to-the-editor-1.126377 (Scroll down a bit to the black headline that reads: “More than one way.”
Aula Magna com Jerry Karzen (EUA)
I don’t speak Portuguese. However, the website below is a gorgeous example of how to use and modify a free wordpess blog and template in order to promote a practice, workshop, product – or whatever else you may be up to:
There are many new people in the communities who are blogging – Carrie Lafferty who does both Feldenkrais and Chi Qi Gong in Seattle: Seattle Feldenkrais. Perth Feldenkrais Practioner Bob Strahinjevich. Cynthia Calmenson who does Feldenkrais in Sonama. And one of Kim Cotrell’s THREE blogs: Feldenkrais Notes: Portland Feldenkrais
AND…anyone else that I am missing? Feel free to leave a comment with posts to any new Feldenkrais Blogs or other resources that you have found.
Feldenkrais Research
I just received an anonymous email from – I presume – a member of the public, asking me:
Where might one find and review the “30+ outcome studies that have been conducted on The Feldenkrais Method.” cited in your critique of Dr. Gorski?
I no longer have a complete list of Feldenkrais Research, as my initial compilation is at least 3 years out of date: Feldenkrais Research Archive and I don’t currently have the time or desire to keep up to date on the latest research in that area. To be perfectly blunt, I find outcome research boring and relatively unhelpful from both epistemological and philosophical perspectives. Yes, you can reduce your view of a phenomena to that which can be quantified and replicated and yes you can do that over and over again coming up with some type of verbal-semantic roadmap to guide your belief. But have you really learned anything? Has it changed your ability to sense, feel, and act?
On the other hand – I do understand why people want to do it and I applaud their efforts. It’s just not my cup of tea.
If you do want to get a sample of the research go to PubMed and search for the term “Feldenkrais”:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pubmed
You will find about 40 studies. It’s not all of the studies on the Feldenkrais Method, but it’s a start. Beyond that, I cannot be much help.
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Ryan Moshe Feldenkrais
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