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The Feldenkrais Method Improves
The Feldenkrais Method consists of two basic techniques, Awareness Through Movement (ATM) and Functional Integration (FI). Together they comprise a system of neuromuscular re-education that can dramatically improve individual functioning by increasing self-awareness and facilitating new patterns of thinking, moving, and feeling.
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About Moshe Feldenkrais
 The Feldenkrais Method was originated by Moshé Feldenkrais, D.Sc., a pioneer in movement science and the innovator of therapeutic and educational approaches. Feldenkrais was born in Russia in 1904 and emigrated to Palestine at the age of 14. As a young man he was an excellent athlete and self-taught in jujitsu. While attending night school preparing to study physics he was a surveyor and tutored problem students. He had an early interest in hypnosis and translated Emile Coué's book on autosuggestion into Hebrew.
"What I'm after isn't flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I'm after is to restore each person to their human dignity."
Moshé Feldenkrais
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. Feldenkrais studied judo intensively and became a well-known judo teacher.
During World War II, Feldenkrais fled to England where he worked in antisubmarine research, trained paratroopers in self-defense techniques, and authored books on judo. On slippery submarine decks, he aggravated an old soccer injury to his knees and began many years of extended work on himself. His self-research led to discoveries about movement re-education and to the development of his methods of Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration®.
In Tel Aviv between 1969 and 1972, Feldenkrais trained his first, small group of practitioners. From 1975 to 1978 he completed the training of a second group of practitioners, this time in the U.S. Among his closest American students was Mark Reese, who studied with Feldenkrais over a period of nearly 10 years, both in the U.S. and in Israel.
Feldenkrais authored six books on his methods. In addition, his main body of work is preserved in thousands of hours of audio and videotapes and transcripts. Feldenkrais vast educational system was the result of 40 remarkably productive and creative years during which he focused on the sensory-motor aspects that underlie human action and experience. Feldenkrais died in 1984, leaving a small group of highly trained practitioners who have continued to teach his methods worldwide.
"The system developed by Moshé Feldenkrais has as much potential for understanding the mind/body relationship as Einstein's general theory of relativity had for physics."
Bernard Lake, M.D.
Books by Moshe Feldenkrais
Feldenkrais, Moshé. Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning
Awareness Through Movement: Health Exercises for Personal Growth
The Case of Nora: Body Awareness as Healing Therapy
The Elusive Obvious
The Master Moves
The Potent Self
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