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Marty Weiner Workshop Notes From Steve Hamlin

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:56:51 +0000

I recently received an email from Steve Hamlin a Feldenkrais Practitioner in Los Angeles. (Steve also blogs: http://stevehamlin.blogspot.com.) Steve read my post on Martin Weiner’s death last year and offered to send his thoughts and workshop notes from some experiences he had with Marty. I quickly agreed and have posted them below. Enjoy. I recently [...]

Feldy Notebook: Share Feldenkrais Session Notes

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:26:17 +0000

These days I am finding that if I do not immediately write a blog post on a topic of interest, the blog post invariably does not get written. I am involved in many exciting projects and “pro bono” blogging about the work of Moshe Feldenkrais tends to take a back seat to my other tasks. [...]

Conference Announcement

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:18:26 +0000

Milton Erickson Online Conference Myself and my business partner, Rob McNeilly, are putting the final touches on the first ever, Online Milton Erickson Conference. This conference is large – with over 40 presentations and 5 keynotes. I thought you might like to take a look at it. We are offering it at a very large [...]

Edward Yu: What is Feldenkrais? What is learning?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:34:03 +0000

The article below is from Edward Yu of Radically Transformative Fitness. I hope you find it as enjoyable and though-provoking as I did. If you would like, you can also download the article as a pdf and read it offline: What_Is_Learning_Edward_Yu What is learning? What is improvement? What is Feldenkrais? Most people spend their whole [...]

Isaac Newton and The Occult.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:11:36 +0000

“See the great Newton, he who first surveyed The plan by which the universe was made; Saw Nature’s simple yet stupendous laws, And proved the effects, though not explained the cause.” “…how did the force of gravitation manage to make itself felt across gulfs of empty space, without benefit of any medium of contact between [...]

Feldenkrais MP3 Store: A New Look And A Major Discount

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:54:27 +0000

I’ve recently started updating my html and programming skills by working with a “local” expat programmer here in Mexico. It’s been a great deal of fun having immediate access to someone who likes to teach and knows a great deal more than I do about programming. If I stay in Mexico long enough, I may [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais: “If It’s Not Good For You, Let It Die.”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:15:45 +0000

I really enjoyed the implications of the quote below as one of the systems that Moshe is talking about letting die is, in fact, “The Feldenkrais Method.” Though the method that he is speaking to was his method and way of acting in the world, not the representations that came afterward. “It must be good [...]

Feldenkrais Podcasts: Ralph Hadden, Australia

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:15:45 +0000

This podcast was created earlier this year on a website called The Global Multiversity a website that I founded with Rob McNeilly from the The Milton H Erickson Institute of Tasmania This particular podcast that I am re-broadcasting is Rob McNeilly interviewing Ralph Hadden, a Feldenkrais practitioner who works in and around Melbourne, Australia. I [...]

Feldenkrais: Skeleton And Consciousness

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:27:45 +0000

I hesitated in posting the video below as the topic is not one that particularly resonates with me at this very moment. But I really like the idea of more and more people creating their own compilations and “mash ups” related to Moshe and his ideas. Below we have a video and thoughts compiled by [...]

2012 Feldenkrais Conference: Embodying Neuroscience

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:48:27 +0000

The Feldenkrais Guild of North America has announced its 2012 conference entitled, “Embodying Neuroscience: The Feldenkrais Method® in Human Development, Performance and Health.” They have made a call for proposals, due January 3rd, 2012: Conference Proposal Information. According to the conference announcement, “The program will demonstrate that when we practice the Feldenkrais Method, we are [...]

Giuseppe Taddei: Building A Practice In Italy!

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:43:03 +0000

Watch this man for two minutes and you will be convinced! (Really). I especially love his infectious smile about 32 seconds into the video. A smile which he uses to great effect later in his presentation. And note that in the space of 5 minutes he does everything need to make the sale: Builds a [...]

Sex Outside The Guild: Evolutionary Processes And “The Method”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:44:45 +0000

“A wild population of any species consists always of individuals whose genetic constitution varies widely. In other words, potentiality and readiness for change is already built into the survival unit.” – Gregory Bateson, “Form, Substance, Difference” in Steps to An Ecology of Mind. In one of my favorite books of 2010, Where Good Ideas Come [...]

The Riddle of the Sphinx (Be Careful What You Pretend)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:58:16 +0000

What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening? - The Riddle of the Sphinx “It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. It is of first-class importance that our answer to [...]

Moshe and The Medical Doctors

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:19:51 +0000

In The Betrayal of the Self: The Fear of Autonomy in Men and Women there is a wonderful story of a workshop that Moshe Feldenkrais taught to a group of medical doctors and psychologists and such at the Munich University Hospital in 1979. Have you heard about the workshop or read a description of it? [...]

Independent Feldenkrais Trainings, Part Two

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:27:20 +0000

Last week’s post regarding independent feldenkrais trainings provoked several people to contact me offline. They all had ideas worth consideration. But before we go there, I thought you might like to see some writing from someone who has already proposed a new training model. To be fair, Ruthy Alon was originally speaking of creating new [...]

Independent Feldenkrais Trainings

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:27:32 +0000

For the second time in as many months I have been contacted by a Feldenkrais practitioner who has begun teaching a Feldenkrais training outside the auspices of any of the “official” organizations. To a certain extent, this is not a new phenomena. The first time I met someone conducting “off the grid” Feldenkrais trainings was [...]

New Conference: Healing Trauma Through The Body

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:39:11 +0000

If you read this blog on a regular basis you may be aware that one of my businesses involves creating and promoting online conferences. Earlier this year, for example, I pulled together a Feldenkrais and Running conference with presenters Sharon Starika, Jae Gruenke, Edward Yu and Julia Pak. With my business partner Rob McNeilly in [...]

a wakeup call to deadened urbanites (Steve Paxton)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:09:37 +0000

“I think that one of the reasons I got involved in dance is to finish my movement development. Because I have a hunger to find, and to finish, and to explore, to do essentially what babies do when they begin to move. A hunger to find out more of what movement is or can be. [...]

Feldenkrais In New York City: Got Any Stories?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:24:01 +0000

Hi all – I’ve recently done a pre-launch of a new website called Feldenkrais New York which due to some super-duper geek stuff that I do is rapidly climbing up the rankings for google searches related to New York. The website has a special purpose which I will not be announcing publicly. However, a few [...]

Truth or Fiction? You decide: The Berry Method®

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:17:46 +0000

The late Lauren Berry Sr. was exceptionally straightforward whenever anyone asked what he did. “I’m not a healer and I’m not a doctor,” he would say.”- Mirka Knaster’s “Discovering The Body’s Wisdom” Berrywork or Berry Method is considered as one of the most effective type of bodywork. – History of Health. Lauren Berry’s legendary career [...]

1950 “Review” of Body and Mature Behavior.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:34:51 +0000

A moment ago, I stumbled across a reference for what I though was a review of Feldenkrais’ book “Body and Mature Behavior” from a 1950 psychology journal. Unfortunately, it was more of a fortune cookie note than a review. None the less, the unsigned review is notable for it’s outright dismissal of the book and [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast with Edward Yu (The Art of Slowing Down).

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:40:12 +0000

I am republishing a couple of radio interviews with Edward Yu, the Feldenkrais Practitioner who wrote “The Art of Slowing Down, A Sense-ABLE Approach to running. For one interview by Lisa Garr of the Aware Show I could not obtain permission so I am only posting a 2-minute piece of the interview. The second interview [...]

Change Your Age (But Not Your Marketing?)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:48:09 +0000

I received an email this morning regarding Frank Wildman’s “Change Your Age Program.” I’ve heard good things about the program. And like most products and ideas that Frank puts into the world, I’m guessing that it is well-thought out, highly-useful and even transformative. But I could not help being puzzled by the requirements for teaching [...]

Hello From A Feldenkrais Practitioner (On SomaSimple Forum)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:37:55 +0000

I recently noticed that the SomaSimple Forums moderated by Barret Dorko has a fun thread discussing what has historically been called, “The Feldenkrais Method.” The discussion ranges from some people’s perception of Feldenkrais practitioners, to a reader’s digest definition of the work, some historical details, as well as one person’s change in perception of the [...]

Working With Gravity And Without Ropes (Short Video)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:11:23 +0000

Inspiring self use.

Andrew Dawson at TEDMed! (San Diego 2011)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:20:50 +0000

Andrew Dawson: How Does It Feel To Retrain Your Brain? This year, yet another Feldenkrais person will join the ranks of TED presenters. Andrew Dawson, Feldenkrais Practitioner and performance artist will be performing at the upcoming TEDMED conference in San Diego California: How Does It Feel To Retrain Your Brain? Andrew also performed ‘The Articulate [...]

Paul Rubin: Feldenkrais Training Policies are “Insane.”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:23:24 +0000

Just a moment ago I was searching for a conversation that I had with Paul Rubin on the FeldyForum last year. I was looking for a sample response to Robbie Ofir’s comment on my post from yesterday. I could not find the conversation that I wanted. But I did run across the quote below: “The [...]

Young Ultra-Orthodox Feldenkrais Practitioners Struggle Against Tradition

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:38:22 +0000

An interesting perspective on “The Method” from National Public Radio (NPR) It’s an engaging story of a handful of young ultra-Orthodox Feldenkrais Practitioners struggling to expand their practices beyond what has been given. But they often have to hide their desire for a different life. Why? Because when they do or say something, their families [...]

Sharon Starika: Run Like a GIRL (grrrrr)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:04:19 +0000

Run Like A Girl Retreat In Utah there is an event starting soon for runners who are women. It is a great concept for marketing and reaching specific groups of people who NEED Feldenkrais-based practices. It’s called the “Run Like A Girl Retreat.” Sharon Starika, GCFP is presenting at the conference and I was tickled [...]

Puncturing Group Conformity

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:01:22 +0000

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —Mark Twain This one is priceless as it clearly shows the person’s nonverbal response. There is a solution. It only takes two. However, notice the deviant (but correct) position is stated publicly.

David Bersin: “Moshe Feldenkrais Is In The Room With Me.”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:47:28 +0000

Last week, I got a marketing email from David Zemach Bersin about his next training program in New York. Bersin leads the email with a quote from one of his students: “When David is in the room, I get a sense that Dr. Feldenkrais is right there with him. It’s an incredible experience.” In other [...]

Peggy LaCerra On Martin Weiner’s Death.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:26:56 +0000

Approximately two months ago I wrote a short article on Marty Weiner and his death. Peggy LaCerra who was Marty’s partner for many years wrote a comment on the article and also shared her eulogy of Marty. Her writing has helped me create a clearer picture of Marty and his life and death. Perhaps it [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais The Imposter

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:46:56 +0000

What is the weird fascination with Moshe Feldenkrais within the so-called “Feldenkrais Community”? I find it rather odd – even offensive – that his ideas are given so much weight. Moshe Feldenkrais was neither a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® nor a Feldenkrais Trainer. He never graduated from a Guild Certified training nor did he meet [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais: Viewing Moshe With A Fresh Pair of Eyes.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:47:40 +0000

Thanks to a posting by Deborah Elizabeth Lotus on Facebook, I found a recent online article about Moshe Feldenkrais in Tablet Magazine. The article benefits greatly from being written and researched by someone new to the work. I will not add any commentary, but highly recommend the article: Moshe Feldenkrais History

Barret Dorko on Pain: Painful Problems Are Not Concrete

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:12:22 +0000

From “Dorko’s Diamonds” I have to admit that I am not as familiar with Barrett Dorko’s work as I would like to be. But over the years I have found his essays and thoughts quite provocative. I first heard of Barret when Feldenkrais “Trainer” Reuven Ofir (Robbie Ofir)¹ made a post about him on the [...]

Feldenkrais and TMJ: The Mayo Clinic Gets It Wrong.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:12:14 +0000

About 30 minutes ago, I read a statement on the Mayo Clinic website that noted: “Severe TMJ disorders may need to be treated with dental or surgical interventions.” (From: Mayo Clinic) That’s a simple statement that few would take issue with. And it seems to meet the unconscious expectations that many of us have, such [...]

Feldenkrais Conference

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 23 May 2011 21:57:30 +0000

Feldenkrais and Running I am very happy to announce the first of several online conferences related solely to the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and the wide variety of practitioners who use his ideas worldwide. This first conference is on Feldenkrais and Running and is jam-packed with useful ideas on evolving yourself as a person, a [...]

Feldenkrais and Einstein On Process Without Language

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 14 May 2011 22:40:47 +0000

I was reading a passage from the book Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less and saw a quote by Albert Einstein about his creative process. It instantly reminded me of some similar thoughts by Moshe on his process of self-use as reported in Body Awareness as Healing Therapy: The Case [...]

Martin Weiner, 1943 – 2011

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:45:10 +0000

Many of you in the Feldenkrais community and elsewhere have been made aware of Martin Weiner’s death. According to the reports of several people that have contacted me, Marty took his own life last Saturday, April 16th. By nearly all accounts Marty was a highly skilled feldenkrais practitioner and over the years developed a tremendous [...]

Feldenkrais Video: Feldenkrais In Australia

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:42:04 +0000

A video (1 of 3) of Feldenkrais Practitioner Karen Sellman giving an introduction to “the work” at the Forth Annual Soft Tissue Therapy* conference in Manly, Australia. Karen is teaching one of the “Book on the Foot” lessons. A pretty gutsy choice for teaching people new to the work, but she pulls it off. Well [...]

Super Groovy Feldenkrais Lesson Notation System

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:15:21 +0000

Hi guys – I have an informant in China* who occasionally sends me cool notes about things happening in the Feldenkrais world. He recently sent me the link to a simple yet effective system for putting “sessions based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais” into a format that are easy to teach and remember. He [...]

Learning and Fighting. With No Rules.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:39:50 +0000

“I do not teach Karate because I don’t believe in styles anymore. Styles tend to not only separate men, because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrines became the “gospel truth” that you cannot change, but if you do not have styles. If you just say, “Here I am, as a human being. [...]

The Utopia Syndrome

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:29:53 +0000

While we pursue the unattainable we make impossible the realizable. —ROBERT ARDREY “Common to all aspects of the utopia syndrome is the fact that the premises on which the syndrome is based are considered to be more real than reality. What we mean by this is that the individual (or, for that matter, a group [...]

“Self-Regulation.” An experimental film by Brad Beldner.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:16:07 +0000

I loved it. And I’m not going to mess that up by analyzing it or verbalizing. I’ll stick with the feeling of what happens. Thanks Brad. More please. More information about Brad Beldner: Integratred Bodywork (San Francisco Bay Area).

Moshe Feldenkrais: “I Have No Interest In The Guild.”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:19:32 +0000

“My business is to record what people say, but I am by no means bound to believe it.” – Herotodus, 2nd century AD, The Histories, (VII.152). On my computer, I came across this little quote from Bill Callison that I pulled off the web a number of months ago. I’ve been told that Bill is [...]

Working With Gravity: Possibilities For Action

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:08:00 +0000

My friend Rob McNeilly just sent this to me. It’s an amazing exposition of perceiving [and acting on] possibilities for action I couldn’t help but think of J.J. Gibson’s Theory of Affordances. Give the video some time to show you. These aren’t merely “tricks.”

Dr. Feldenkrais and Dr. Neff: Go Easy On Your Self

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:18:03 +0000

Thanks to a Facebook post by Deborah Elizabeth Lotus, I found an interesting article on Self-Compassion in the New York Times. I immediately thought of a convergence with similar ideas by Moshe Feldenkrais in his book, The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion “If people realize the necessity for a certain act, however [...]

Anat Baniel at TEDx

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:27:45 +0000

I just found out that Anat Baniel spoke at the TEDx conference in Berkeley earlier this month. I’m very happy for her and others who are engaging in new behaviors and organizations to get Moshe’s ideas deeper into the world. But don’t worry. Those not interested in doing so still have the FeldyForum. They have [...]

Useful And Incredibly Boring “Feldenkrais” Article By Dr. Andrew Weil

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:53:31 +0000

There is an online article by Dr. Weil about the Feldenkrais Method. It starts out with the usual boring stuff that no one gives a damn about: “Dr. Feldenkrais was a Russian-born physicist…blah blah blah…who hurt his knee…blah blah blah…” He also uses some of the standard language (Read: emotionally dull and meaningless) that means [...]

Edward Yu: Feldenkrais, Physical Fitness and Learning (gasp)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:40:32 +0000

I’m remiss in not posting these excellent videos several month ago when I first discovered them. My apologies. Some great stuff from Feldenkrais Practitioner, runner and triathlete Edward Yu. Below he is speaking to a variety of topics related to learning, physical fitness and yes, the pure joy in movement and exercise. Notice how Edward [...]

Feldenkrais Research Reviewer: But What did you DO?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:55:09 +0000

…and how can it be replicated? I think it has been about 4 years since I left my PhD studies – without finishing my dissertation. Maybe five. And I’m starting to pull out some of my non-published papers, and reviewer comments, and begin making sense of them and all that time I spent in academia. [...]

Feldenkrais Video: Dr. Feldenkrais Working With A Child With Cerebral Palsy.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:15:43 +0000

It’s only a twelve-minute clip, but it’s worth watching. Do so now before it gets taken down for copyright violation. Also, there are MUCH better ways to share Dr. Feldenkrais videos than simply using YouTube. If you really want to get him more airtime and to promote the work, I suggest you sign-up for a [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais “Change Your Groove.”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:53:13 +0000

A few moments ago, I was looking for some information regarding, Dub Leigh a man who trained with Ida Rolf and Moshe Feldenkrais and who has been credited by many for instigating the creation of the Feldenkrais Guild. Printed material on Dub is hard to come by. If anyone has any facts or stories about [...]

Feldenkrais Video: More of Moshe Feldenkrais At CERN

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:42:59 +0000

More than a year ago, I had the pleasure of posting a link of a video of Moshe Feldenkrais giving a Functional Integration session at CERN in Geneva: Feldenkrais at Cern. Now, thanks to the efforts of a reader of this blog, I can post links to portions of Moshe’s lecture at CERN. I have [...]

Feldenkrais Marketing: Free Google Local Listings

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:03:29 +0000

On another website, I just wrote a post on the benefits of getting a free google local listing. Google local (technically called “Google Places” now) is getting more and more important as Google is highlighting the local listings based on what geographic location you are searching from and what keywords you type. They can also [...]

Almost Time To Say Goodbye…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:07:06 +0000

I woke up yesterday morning with a certain kind of unease and dissatisfaction. Started to write a blog post. And then another. And then another. Didn’t complete any of them. That doesn’t mean much as I have about 40 pages of written but unpublished blog posts. But today was qualitatively different. I realized that “I” [...]

Feldenkrais Is Not Owned: Copyright does not protect a concept or idea.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:59:27 +0000

There is a topic that keeps coming up inside and outside of the Feldenkrais community. Simply stated: “Who owns Moshe’s ideas?” The simple answer, as I have noted before (Free Feldenkrais) is: “No one” When I say that no one owns Moshe work I’m being literal. I’m not staking out a metaphysical position. When people [...]

Happy NEW YEAR and…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:31:08 +0000

New Year’s is a great time to do a psychological “scan” and take note of where we are, what we’ve done and where we are going. Someone once said, “If you know what you are doing, you can do what you want.” But what are we scanning for? Many possibilities, but let’s start with productivity [...]

The Smallest Things That Can Make A Big Difference #1

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:42:45 +0000

In the human being…the nervous system is so affected during the prolonged childhood by its personal experience of the environment that it grows into a being with personal characteristic reactions, biological as well as emotional, that are unique for each personal experience. Moshe Feldenkrais, Potent Self, 1992, p. 64 Unique for each personal experience. I’m [...]

Feldenkrais And Somatic Experiencing (Video)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:14:25 +0000

Over the last year or so I have noticed more and more Feldenkrais practitioners writing and speaking about their experiences with Peter Levine’s “Somatic Experiencing,” often referred to as “SE” for short. I personally know about a dozen Feldenkrais practitioners who have either taken his training or are in one now. The video below seems [...]

Nancy Wozny: A Visit with Ruthy Alon

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:08:07 +0000

I very much enjoyed the article below published several years ago by Nancy Wozny on her “Motion Potion” blog. Her latest writings can be found on her Dance Hunter blog. Feldenkrais-types may be familiar with **some** of the stories that Ruthy tells Nancy below. But there are some interesting tidbits about Moshe and the development [...]

Be Fruitful And Multiply

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:31:00 +0000

“If ye have faith as a simple mp3, ye shall say unto this CD, “Convert into digital format and move hence to yonder place.” And it shall move. And nothing shall be impossible to you.” – Moshe Feldenkrais, Sermon on Making the Impossible Possible. It’s happened twice in the last 24 hours and probably 12 [...]

Getting More Students: This is how it’s done…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:55:00 +0000

Last month I taught a webinar on how you – as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and small business owner – can organize your website to get more students and workshop attendees. Within just a few days of the webinar one of the participants, Kim Cottrell, Portland Feldenkrais practitioner streamlined and organized her website to take advantage [...]

Carl Ginsburg: As Incoherent As He Wants To Be

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:52:49 +0000

Several months ago, I came across an article posted by Carl Ginsburg on Feldscinet.org. It was an article optimistically entitled, “Epistemology For The Feldenkrais Method.” I began reading the article and laughed. It sounded like it came from some pretentious postmodern philosophical treatise or a random sentence generator that can create plausible yet meaningless sentences [...]

Working Within The Medical Model (Or Not)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:21:06 +0000

Last week I moderated a conference and panel discussion on innovative ways to improve the lives of those labeled with “depression.” There were many ideas in the conference that reminded me of the thinking of Moshe Feldenkrais and many in the Feldenkrais communities. I received email questions from clinicians and grad students all over the [...]

Feldenkrais Video: A Functional Integration Session in Three Parts (Mia Segal)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:56:09 +0000

Oohhh I love seeing all these videos of Functional Integration sessions online. So important. This one is from Mia Segal and Andrew.* The video and audio is clear…as is the demonstration. Thanks to all of you who record and share these. Keep them coming! Mia Segal Functional Integration Session with Andrew, Part 1 Parts 2 [...]

Feldenkrais Video: “It’s all about YOU.”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:38:42 +0000

“You” and “Your” are two of the most important words that you can use online to increase your results and to get more students and workshop participants for your practice. Why? Well, think about what YOU personally do when you navigate to website or do a web search. Are you looking for something specific? Do [...]

Feldenkrais Video: Over 269,000 views….

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:00:16 +0000

“Dancers have created a whole global laboratory online. Kids in Japan are taking moves from a YouTube video created in Detroit, building on it within days and releasing a new video, while teenagers in California are taking the Japanese video and remixing it to create a whole new dance style.” – Jonathan Chu, Filmaker. In [...]

Advanced Workshop: Conversion 101

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:05:43 +0000

Get More Students For Your Practice and More Participants for Your Workshops For me 2010 is going to go down as the year that every Feldenkrais practitioner “had to” start using social media and begin “Tweeting” and “Facebooking” and learning 10,000 different ways to use social media to create “buzz” and manage their “brand” online. [...]

Moshe’s Wish For the Guild

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:13:01 +0000

While doing some research for an unrelated topic, I ran across a few choice words in a FGNA publication called, “Learning By Doing: A History.” It was from a San Francisco training graduate regarding his memory of the creation of the guild. The publication quotes the “trainer” as saying: “Interestingly, Moshe insisted on a rather [...]

Feldenkrais Video: Eli Wadler Functional Integration Session

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:19:57 +0000

Eli Wadler, one of Moshe Feldenkrais’s original students, has several videos online of him giving a Functional Integration session. Well worth viewing. It’s not only smart marketing, it’s good for the method, good for learning, and good for the diffusion of innovation. If you would like a brief overview of the importance of online video [...]

Feldenkrais on Functional Integration and Physical Therapy

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:25:51 +0000

An interesting lecture from Moshe Feldenkrais showing not only his thinking but also the times that he “slipped” and got away from his own work. Bolded font was added to several sentences by me. San Francisco Training, August 15, 1977. “I watched what you are doing now, and I wondered what is the difference between [...]

You say you want a revolution?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:01:43 +0000

How many times have you heard that idea that Feldenkrais represents a “revolution”? Have you heard someone say that they want to use the work to “start a revolution”? I’ve heard it three times in as many months from people in the community. It’s a grand idea. But for most in the community it’s [...]

The Satanic Verses of Frank Wildman

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:53:51 +0000

Please Note: This blog post is certified safe for both Guild and Non-Guild Members. I spent a considerable amount of time last month scanning documents and books and such into my computer, getting ready for my cross-border move. In the process, I came across an article that Frank Wildman published in the Physical Therapy Forum [...]

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:31:54 +0000

[and this] theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. – Paul Feyarabend, Against Method (Fourth Edition), page 5. “The idea that science can, and should, be run according to fixed and universal rules, is both unrealistic and pernicious. It is unrealistic, for it takes too simple a [...]

Amherst Trainer: “The Old Battles Are Dead Ends”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:39:48 +0000

In the previous post, “Beware Feldenkrais Trainers Bearing Grudges,” I promised to share with you the voice of a few trainers who have more balanced and inclusive ideas about the community. Below is a verbatim email as it was forwarded to me, only edited to delete several names: “Thank you [names trainers] and others who [...]

Beware Trainers Bearing Grudges

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:44:26 +0000

“Sed quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes?” – Juvenal A small investigation of something Moshe Feldenkrais attempted to teach….and what a few of his students actually learned. Moshe Feldenkrais Lecture and Demonstration Thursday, June, 23 1977, From the San Francisco Training Transcripts. Moshe speaking during a Functional Integration demonstration: “I used to take it differently. This [...]

Feldenkrais on Gurdjieff on Waking Sleep

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:33:01 +0000

Thanks to a comment by Deborah Elizabeth Lotus on my post yesterday, Feldenkrais on Waking Sleep Walking, I was provoked to see if I could find references of Moshe speaking to similar ideas from Gurdjieff. Though I do not yet have the full corpus of Moshe’s work digitized and on my computer, I was able [...]

Feldenkrais on “Waking Sleep Walking”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:37:40 +0000

In the Awareness Through Movement book, which Moshe Feldenkrais wrote to demonstrate his ideas to the public, he distinguished among three states of human functioning: waking, sleeping and awareness: “Two states of existence are commonly distinguished: waking and sleeping. We shall define a third state: awareness. In this state the individual knows exactly what he [...]

Jesus Cured My TMJ Pain (Using Feldenkrais and Somatic Visualization)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:53:17 +0000

Getting ready to move to Isla Mujeres, Mexico (in less than 10 days!) and decided to take some time to create and release a new product: “Eliminate TMJ Pain Now.” I tend to create products that arise from my own needs and this one is no exception. I had TMJ symptoms on and off for [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais: “Sharing Ida Rolf’s Legacy”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:54:33 +0000

Moshe Feldenkrais Workshop Join Moshe Feldenkrais for a special workshop: “Sharing Ida Rolf’s Legacy.” Structural Integration® Notes from the U.S.A. 1873-1884 Moshe Feldenkrais began to study with Ida Rolf in Berkeley California, in May of 1858. Day after day, for nearly five months, he sat in a small room and watched Ida give Structural Integration [...]

Feldenkrais Class Taught By Baby Liv

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:18:36 +0000

I had a chance to watch this video several weeks ago before it came out, but I wanted to wait a bit before posting it so that I could see how the clip made its way through various social media channels such as Facebook. More than 40 people in my friends list posted and re-posted [...]

Feldenkrais For Animals: A Monkey and Lion Do ATM

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:47:44 +0000

I think this video speaks for itself. Just watching it is relaxing….

Einstein Speaks on the Foolishness of Methodological Conformity

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:13:58 +0000

‘The external conditions which are set for [the scientist] by the facts of experience do not permit him to let himself be too much restricted, in the construction of his conceptual world, by the adherence to an epistemological system. He, therefore, must appear to the systematic epistemologist as a type of unscrupulous opportunist.’ A complex [...]

Feldenkrais Volunteers Needed for the TAB

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:45:42 +0000

ANNOUNCEMENT: Please Distribute Immediately. The training and accreditation boards (TAB’s) of the “Wiggle Your Butt, Make A Buck” Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Trainer Monopoly are looking for volunteers. TAB volunteers play a very important part of maintaining trainer control of curriculum, teaching and the monetary rewards of running certified trainings. As a member of the TAB your [...]

A (Not So New, But Interesting) Moshe Feldenkrais Biography

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:00:29 +0000

While doing some research for a future slanderous and inappropriate attack on the FGNA and related organizations, thereby proving that I am a selfish, self-centered, dangerous and arrogant jerk who only cares about money and fame and should be avoided at all costs, I came across the article below about Moshe Feldenkrais from Haaretz.com. I [...]

Aula Magna com Jerry Karzen (EUA)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:55:50 +0000

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: Feldenkrais Brasil There are many new people in the communities who are blogging – [...]

Feldenkrais Research

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:06:38 +0000

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 [...]

Feldenkrais Guild Service Mark Application (and Conformity Guidelines)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:39:35 +0000

“…the thinking that people do when they create their own ideology – their own vision for society – is broader than the thinking involved in following a perspective that is given.” Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds Someone sent me a pdf of the entire Feldenkrais Guild Service Mark registration (Download 3.1 mb) registered December 3, [...]

Feldenkrais Google Search Trends (Deceiving!)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:15:41 +0000

Feldenkrais Search Trends I was initially puzzled – and annoyed – at the chart below. It show a 5-year long decline in the number of people searching on Google for the word, "Feldenkrais." Surely that can’t be right??? The Graph is deceiving. What it is actually showing is a change in search habits. People, in [...]

“Change Your Age” by Frank Wildman

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:25:25 +0000

I don’t know how respected the Birmingham Medical News is, but they gave a nice review of Frank Wildman’s book: From the review: “….not all movement is alike according to Wildman…many popular exercise programs use movement that can actually age your body. Instead, think about the ways you moved as a child, move “lightly and [...]

Roots of the Feldenkrais Trainer Monopoly

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:03:52 +0000

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Animal Farm by George Orwell. From the SRC 2009 Report: “Since 1992, we [the International Feldenkrais Federation] have a “bottom-up”, democratically organized professional umbrella association in the IFF. Parallel to it, we have an older TAB [Training and Accreditation Board] structure with roots [...]

Feldenkrais Lifestyle Tips With Sharon Starika

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:01:37 +0000

I took my old Suzuki up to Park City last night to take Sharon Starika’s ATM class. And today she sent me the link to some “pilot” videos for a short series that she may be doing on cable T.V. Take a look. Great stuff: Sharon Starika: Lifestyle Tips More on Sharon: Park City Feldenkrais [...]

Guild Officer: “Are we really the owner of the marks?”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:39:41 +0000

For those who have been around the Feldenkrais community for many years, the passage below is old news? Or not so much? When Bonnie Humiston, two-time Guild President and one of Moshe’s original american students, graciously gave me her time in a podcast last year, I had not read the passage below. Otherwise, I would [...]

IFF Committee Wants Change. The Holy Ones Say “NO.”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:57:08 +0000

(As Per the Script) Products that are still evolving, delivered to a market that is still emerging, using technology that is changing on a daily basis – Kent Foster, GTE Kent Foster is a business person talking about the ever changing economy of ideas that we live in. Unfortunately, the reality of that world has [...]

Denis Leri Wants a Separate Feldenkrais Trainer’s Guild

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:55:41 +0000

I have heard this idea floated many times over the years – some trainers threatening to leave the guild over some issue that upsets them. Actually, I have seen some of the emails in which trainers have threatened to leave. They are actually a bit funny as the “issues” – if you can call them [...]

Did David Bersin commit fraud?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:08:51 +0000

“Total transparency has a tendency to reveal and expose those not really adding any value” – Ridderstrale and Nordstrom: Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance On Moshe’s Behalf…? Several months ago, I ran across something that got me slightly nauseous when I read it. It was an archived post by David Bersin from a [...]

Feldenkrais: Everything You ‘Know’ About Healing May Be Dead Wrong

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:58:39 +0000

Great Feldenkrais Article by Michael Sigman of The Huffington Post: “…when Feldenkrais practitioner/physical therapist Stacy Barrows encouraged me to attend her class — which, I imagined, would be all about the stretch — I was wary. Our individual sessions were going well, but classes tend to induce peer pressure, and I worried about vigorous pulling [...]

Who Own Feldenkrais Ideas? Everyone. (That means YOU!)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:12:48 +0000

I had a brief email conversation recently about the ownership of certain Feldenkrais materials. For example there are transcripts of the awareness through movement sessions that Moshe Feldenkrais taught at Alexanader Yanai in Isreal. Someone wondered about the legality of teaching a version of an Alexander Yanai session. What if you create workshops or products [...]

Build Your Practice (But Only if You Are Pure)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:42:31 +0000

I was just in the process of writing a brief blog post on the decline of professional organizations such as Feldenkrais Guild of North America, based loosely on some ideas I encountered in Death of the Guilds by Elliotte A. Krause. Feeling the desire for a brief moment of procrastination, I went to Facebook where [...]

Free Feldenkrais Lessons: Free For Any Purpose, Person or Organization

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:51:10 +0000

“What I propose to you is a permanent engagement with those who think they possess what cannot be possessed. Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.” – Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian While having some email conversations with Falk Feddersen, the man behind the wonderful Open ATM [...]

The Feldenkrais Revolutionary Guard of North America. (FRGNA)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:27:56 +0000

“The problems are not accidental; they are essential. It doesn’t make any difference who are the people. It is the structure.” – Mohsen Sazegara.* *Former architect of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and functionary of the regime, now an agitator for change.

Finding Moshe: Historical Journeys into the life of Feldenkrais

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:19:51 +0000

A special guest post by Irene Gutteridge In February of 2009 I (Irene Gutteridge) embarked on a project that I named “The Next 25 Years”. What it is you may ask? Simply put, the purpose of this project is to bring savvy (dare I say sexy?!), succinct and professionally produced video clips together that serve [...]

26,000 Downloads and Counting….

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:45:35 +0000

I just took a quick snapshot of some of the stats on this website and I though you might be interested in taking a look. No internet statistics – even from mighty Google – are ever 100% accurate. My internal server logs show downloads in excess of 37,000, but I will go with Google’s more [...]

Feldenkrais Videos From Austria: Wie sitzen Sie heute?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 30 May 2010 03:35:31 +0000

Wie sitzen Sie heute? Angenehmer mit der Feldenkrais Methode! Translation: How Are You Sitting Today? More comfortably with the Feldenkrais Method! I thought these where quite lovely. A series of short videos advertising The Feldenkrais Method® in Austria and an Austrian Feldenkrais Training, starting in July 2011. These are just 3 of 16 ads that [...]

Mia Segal: Further Conversations

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:31:03 +0000

Mia Segal and Leora Gaster Podcast This podcast was recorded on April 15th, 2010 in Austin, Texas. It was the third recorded conversation that I had with Mia and Leora. (The second has not been broadcast). This last conversation almost didn’t happen. Both Mia and Leora felt we had covered a lot of ground during [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais at Rotterdam (1977)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:17:29 +0000

I recently purchased an mp3 CD that contains over 13 hours of lectures and Awareness Through Movement by Moshe Feldenkrais. The material was taught in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1976. True to the understated (one could say boring) marketing style of the International Feldenkrais Federation, the lessons are described thus: “Volume 1: Moshe Feldenkrais in Rotterdam [...]

Some FGNA “History” on the FeldyForum…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:44:27 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I have heard that there is a rather long conversation on the FeldyForum that on the surface seems to have been sparked by my interview with Mia Segal. Of course, dry straw can ignite quite easily. A fact that has little to do with the match itself. Though I am no [...]

Anat Baniel: A special needs child requires an extraordinary brain

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:09:08 +0000

A short video of Anat Baniel, who is demonstrating more and more that she knows how to engage people effectively via the internet. Anat speaks to briefly to the behavioral and neurological challenges that a special needs child has as he or she navigates the world and attempts to create patterns. I like Anat’s statement [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais Video: Biology and Posture

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 01 May 2010 21:27:36 +0000

Moshe Feldenkrais: Judo master, physicist, and electrical engineer speaks about posture and thinking. “Good posture” from a Feldenkrais perspective is neutral. That is, a person with good posture has organized himself or herself in a way that allows him or her to move in any direction without preparation or hesitation. Moshe Feldenkrais on Biology and [...]

The “Moshe Feldenkrais Forty” #1: Scanning Yourself (Deeply)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:23:19 +0000

Image by cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr The first of 40 free, open source audio mp3′s (with transcripts) based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais. Some history. About 7 months ago, I released some Feldenkrais transcripts under a Creative Commons license: Open-source Feldenkrais-based lessons and Free Feldenkrais-Based Back Pain Relief Workshop. As much as I enjoyed creating [...]

Contact Ryan Anonymously

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:25:32 +0000

Image by Rickydavid via Flickr Do you have something that you want to say or share regarding the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and related communities, but are worried about legal or political consequences? Consider contacting me anonymously. Here’s how it works: Anonynous Email: Click this link: http://anonymouse.org/anonemail.html and use the form to send me [...]

Feldenkrais Podcasts: A Conversation With Mia Segal

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:31:29 +0000

This conversation with Mia Segal and Leora Gaster was recorded on April 14th, 2010, in Austin, Texas at Leora’s home. Mia Segal began working with Moshe Feldenkrais in 1957 and she has a rich history and understanding of him and his work that few can match. For me, this conversation has many “firsts” embedded within [...]

Leora Gaster: Feldenkrais Demonstration With A Skeleton

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:40:13 +0000

This is the most detailed Feldenkrais demonstration using a skeleton that I have ever seen. More information on training with Leora Gaster can be found on the MBS Academy website: Feldenkrais Heritage.

Yochanan Rywerant: Teaching by Handling

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:03:30 +0000

I’m recently back from two days in Austin, Texas where I had a chance to talk to, and record, multiple conversations with Mia Segal, Leora Gaster and their business coordinator Danielle Polfus. The first podcast from these conversations is nearly ready and should be up in a few days. While talking to Mia, I mentioned [...]

More On The IFF’s Folly

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:27:49 +0000

“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and [...]

When Moshe Feldenkrais Received Alexander Sessions…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:20:23 +0000

I’ve doing a bit of research for an interview that I will be conducting with Mia Segal one of Moshe Feldenkrais’ early collaborators in Israel. I was looking for some information on Charles Neal, the Alexander Teacher that Mia Segal worked with before meeting Moshe. What I found was a rather interesting online article by [...]

Finding Solutions Cyberconference (Happening NOW)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:04:12 +0000

The Centre of Effective Therapy in Australia and The Milton H Erickson Institute of Tasmania are co-sponsoring a “Finding Solutions CyberConference.” I am presenting on – you guessed it – expanding your practice and income onlinee. Unlike presentations in traditional conferences all of the Cyberconference talks are available for instant download. This means that you [...]

Mia Segal, Feldenkrais Trainer, Teaching Intention, Differentation & Integration

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:05:37 +0000

Here’s a lovely 5-minute video snippet of Mia Segal teaching. There is more on a YouTube channel that she has set-up: Mia Segal Video. I heard from Mia’s office manager Danielle that she is planning a training in the U.S in Spring 2011. For now, enjoy the video. Mia Segal Video:

Conflict of Interest on the FGNA Board of Directors?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:59:04 +0000

IFF and FGNA: Anatomie de L’Enfer I could write volumes about the conflict of interests, parasitic actions and cross-motivated behavior at the “official” Feldenkrais organizations. Quite frankly, there are so god damned many that I wonder if the system was designed to be dysfunctional. To whom would such dysfunctions be a benefit? Perhaps we [...]

Does the FGNA have free and fair elections?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:54:32 +0000

Several weeks ago a friend told me that there was a discussion happening at the Guild over what to do about a group of Anat Baniel’s students who were petitioning to join the FGNA. Intrigued by what might be happening, I spent some time trying to track down someone who could tell me more. I [...]

Webinar: Stop Procrastinating and Get Your Darn Website Online

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:45 +0000

How long has it been since you first began thinking of creating a website to market your practice? Too long, I bet. What has stopped you? You don’t know how to register a URL? Don’t know anything about hosting? Think that creating a website will be too time consuming or too expensive? Forget about all [...]

Frank Wildman On The Today Show

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:17:07 +0000

Image of Frank Wildman Frank Wildman Video This is how its done! Frank Wildman in a 9-minute interview on the The Today Show in Australia. Note: It’s Frank Wildman. Not Frank Wildman channeling a dead guy and talking about Moshe. Not Frank Wildman talking about “restoring each person to their human dignity” or some [...]

Feldenkrais Webinar Replay Available

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:17:25 +0000

The marketing webinars from February are now available as a product – ready for immediate download. We had a great turnout for the workshop with 22 people from accross the United States and several from Europe in attendance. “I came to Ryan knowing next to nothing about internet marketing but I knew I needed [...]

International Feldenkrais Federation Files YouTube Complaint

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:12:06 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I suppose it had to happen eventually – The International Feldenkrais Federation Distribution Center (IFF-DC) filed a claim with YouTube and asked them to take down clips that were posted by Paul Doron and a few others. The clips were of Moshe Feldenkrais at the Amherst Training in the early 1980′s. [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais Amherst Clip: July 13, 1981

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:24:34 +0000

I found this clip on YouTube a few minutes ago. It is from the Amherst training, July 13, 1981. I love seeing the playful part of Moshe that can be seen in the beginning of the video. From what I can tell, the class was watching a video of Moshe working and then he began [...]

FGNA Board News?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:34:19 +0000

I would like to applaud the FGNA board’s attempt to harness social media in order to connect with FGNA members. It is a welcome step. It is nice to be able to see a video and connect names and faces. That being said, the video below has no content. That the board met? We know. [...]

Feldenkrais Around The Web

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:11:37 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Last night I received my once-a-week google alert for the term “Feldenkrais.” Google sends me an email with every mention of the the word “Feldenkrais” that it picks up around the web. The list includes blogs, websites, forums, and all points in between. I took the list, inserted links, cut out [...]

Feldenkrais, Sex and Self-Development

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:17:31 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Last night I was doing a session from the 1977 1972 Esalen workhop. The Esalen workshop was one of the first public workshops taught by Moshe Feldenkrais in the United States. I was doing lesson #13, called: Head Turning (Cervical). In the middle of the session, the transcript reports Moshe saying; [...]

Moshe Feldenkrais: Judo and The Art of Defence and Attack

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:03:32 +0000

Just a few moments ago on Facebook, Kunihiko Otomo posted a quote from Moshe Feldenkrais’ out-of-print 1944 book: Judo: The Art of Defence and Attack Kunihiko mentioned, “I see the seeds of his [Moshe's] inspiration and his later Method scattered all over those pages like pieces of gold.” Being intrigued, I did some digging online [...]

Live Webinar: 27 Low and No-Cost Ways To Expand Your Income Using The Internet

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:31:08 +0000

Do you have a Feldenkrais-based practice or side-business and want to make more effective use of the internet? Join me in February for 2 power-packed webinars to help you create more influence and income online. In these interactive online workshops, you will gain both a broad overview of what is possible for you online and [...]

Feldenkrais Skiing: High-Performance Skiing and The Feldenkrais Method

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:40:17 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Feldenkrais & High Performance Skiing The short video below popped up in my “google alerts” a few minutes ago. It is of John Kucera from the Canadian Alpine Ski Team. Since 2004, John and his teammates have been working with Coach Kurt Kothbauer. Kurt is not only the head conditioning coach for [...]

Bone Mineral Content And Fractures: Are They Related?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:02:55 +0000

Image by Woody Collins via Flickr In a previous post on the relationship between structural “deviations” and pain symptoms we discussed how specific issues such as “disk protrusions” and “torn rotator cuffs” are not necessarily related to pain symptoms – regardless of what well-meaning health practitioners may tell us. Now, let’s talk about a related [...]

Feldenkrais Trainings: How Many Graduates Start a Practice?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:54:53 +0000

Have you ever wondered how many people graduate from Feldenkrais Trainings on a yearly basis? Curious how many of those people actually start practices? Paul Rubin’s Answer Last month on the FeldyForum, Feldenkrais Trainer Paul Rubin stated his belief that most people who graduate from a Feldenkrais professional training program end up using the work [...]

Ruthy Alon: Talking To The Bones

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:52:07 +0000

I recently caught up with Ruthy Alon while she was in preparation for an upcoming 4-month international trip to teach Bones For Life and Feldenkrais. One of Moshe’s original “gang of 13″ students, Ruthy speaks not only about the development and origination of her own work – Bones For Life – but also her beginnings [...]

Feldenkrais Video: University of Wisconsin

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:37:27 +0000

I just got off a skype call with Ruthy Alon for our upcoming podcast and decided to take a look at what was happening one Facebook. And wouldn’t you know, social media maven Deborah Elizabeth Lotus had just shared a video of Hagit Vardi, a Feldenkrais Teacher being interviewed by Dave Rakel, MD from the [...]

Think Your Pain Symptoms are Caused by a Structural Problem? Think Again.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:10:10 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Have you or a loved one ever been in that uncomfortable position of asking a health provider: “What is the cause of my back pain? “…shoulder pain?” “…neck pain?” or some other painful condition? And your well-meaning nurse, doctor, or physical therapist was kind enough to do a “diagnosis” with an MRI [...]

Upcoming Podcasts, Plus Feldenkrais Mp3 Discount Code

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:07:53 +0000

Chava and Ruthy Podcasts I am slowly working my way towards podcasts with Chava Chelhav of Child’Space fame and (I hope) Ruthy Alon, creator of Bones for Life. More than just students of Moshe Feldenkras, Chava Chelhav and Ruthy Alon are thinkers and innovators in their own right and I am looking forward to speaking [...]

Feldenkrais Methods and Viral Marketing, Part 1

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:29:17 +0000

Every so often a member of one of the Feldenkrais communities will approach me about viral marketing – a way of using internet technologies to help an idea or product spread very rapidly online. To date, I have not agreed to do any viral marketing campaigns for anyone in the Feldenkrais community. Why? There are [...]

Move Into Life: Anat Baniel Speaks With Michael Merzenich

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:45:55 +0000

In the interview below, Dr. Michael Merzenich speaks with Anat Baniel about her new book, Move into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality Watching the clip, I am deeply impressed with Anat’s ability to speak about Feldenkrais principles in a manner that is clear and easy-to-understand. It is an important skill that more people [...]

Some Common Delusions of Physical Therapists

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:31:47 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I would like to give a nod to Barrett Dorko and his article: The Matrix and Me, where he lists some common illusions of therapists (I assume physical therapists). Dorko is provocative writer and I recommend taking a look at his work. From his article: Traditional Therapeutic Illusions In my experience most [...]

David Zemach Bersin And The Advanced Workshop That Wasn’t

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:20:07 +0000

Worst Advanced Training Ever? Or Just Business as Usual? Early in 2009, I took the most ill-conceived and, I am sorry to say, useless, advanced Feldenkrais training that I have ever encountered – A “Functional Integration Immersion” workshop taught by David Zemach Bersin in Berkeley, California. It has been nearly 8 months since I took [...]

The Emerging Feldenkrais Networks…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:21:36 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I do not know how many of you are aware of it…consciously…but practitioners and students of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais are accelerating their development of the work and their development of themselves, their students and their practices. True to feldenkrais, evolutionary and dynamic systems models, new forms are arising – new forms of [...]

Feldenkrais Research? Show Me The Data.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:35:11 +0000

There seem to be more and more voices within the Feldenkrais community making calls for research on the method. You may know about the IFF Research Journal that has been in existence for several years. They have some useful articles. There is the “Esther Thelen Fund” whose goal is “…to foster the specific communication and [...]

Do You REALLY Want To Have A Feldenkrais Practice?!

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:28:48 +0000

Image via Wikipedia It’s Ok if you don’t. You are still an amazing human being. Perhaps even more amazing. You don’t have a practice and we totally, totally, love you. I mean that. I was in the bay area earlier this year and I had a friend who was complaining about not having enough students, [...]

Is “Bones For Life” Feldenkrais?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:14:22 +0000

I’ve heard some conversations recently in which people ask, “Is Bones For Life® Feldenkrais®?” or simply state, “Bones for Life IS NOT Feldenkrais!!” Neither statement makes any sense. Here’s an idea. How about asking questions about the “new” methodologies in a way that is consistent with Feldenkrais learning principles? How about asking what will help people [...]

Feldenkrais: The Next 25 Years

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:39:59 +0000

The video below is from: Feldenkrais: The Next 25 Years, an emerging documentary from Irene Gutteridge, whose short-term goal: …the creation of a series of short videos, each focused on specific aspects and applications of Feldenkrais, compiled into an educational DVD. seems to be coming to fruition, step-by-step. Very nice! You can find out more [...]

Free Feldenkrais-Based Back Pain Relief Workshop

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:28:55 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Ready for some more open-source, share-and-share-alike Feldenkrais resources? Good! Back Pain Relief Transcripts Based on the Work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais A group of open-source, Self-Awareness Through Movement lessons, designed to reduce and eliminate back pain, as well as improve the movement of your entire spine. Based on the work of Dr. [...]

Feldenkrais Video: Impressions of Moshe at “CERN”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:30:38 +0000

The video below, “Moshe Feldenkrais at CERN” shows a small part of Moshe’s presentation at CERN circa 1981.*** Unfortunately, what you see below is only the demonstration portion and does not include Moshe’s prior lecture. The lecture was quite fascinating not only from a theoretical perspective, but also from a group dynamics and teaching perspective. [...]

Steven Gilligan Podcast: Hypnosis, Milton and Moshe

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:00:43 +0000

In this 35-minute interview with Dr. Stephen Gilligan, we discuss a wide-variety of topics, including some of Steve’s early experiences with Milton Erickson, his development of Self-Relations Psychotherapy and the “third” generation of hypnosis, trance and change that he is developing now. We also talk about some of the interrelations between between somatic practices such [...]

The First 5 Open Source Feldenkrais-Based Lessons

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:50:19 +0000

Open Source Transcripts: Moshe Feldenkrais For All. As promised, in my previous post on Open-Source Feldenkrais Materials, here is a group of open-source Self-Awareness Through Movement lessons based on the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. Please read the disclaimer before using these materials: http://utahfeldenkrais.org/blog/blog-disclaimer/ The session names are: 1) Sitting, Bending the Head 2) Seeing [...]

Open-Source Materials Based On The Work Of Moshe Feldenkrais

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:25:02 +0000

Do you think the work of Moshe Feldenkrais should be more widely available? If you read the FeldyForum or participate in other community activities such as attending guild conferences, you may have heard about the dissatisfaction that many Feldenkrais and Feldenkrais-based practitioners have about the accessibility of materials. The discussions have been going on for [...]

Dr. David Gorski: King of the Quack’s

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:53:46 +0000

Image by law_keven via Flickr Dr. David “Orac” Gorski If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and smells like a duck, it’s probably David Gorski, M.D., PhD. Gorski is a medical doctor and blogger who casts aspersions on the work of others by selectively choosing data and research that supports his positions, [...]

Linda Tellington Jones: TTouch® and Feldenkrais® (Video)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:17:25 +0000

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Linda Tellington Jones of “TTouch®” fame is going to be at the Feldenkrais conference coming up in August. Famous worldwide for her work with animals, she has also trained as a Feldenkrais Practitioner. Her workshop, Integrating Tellington TTouch® into your Professional Practice and Everyday Life is open to the [...]

Bonnie Humiston Podcast

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:50:26 +0000

Welcome to a 33-minute podcast with Feldenkrais Trainer Bonnie Humiston from Humiston Wellness.. Bonnie began her studies with Moshe Feldenkrais in 1971 and graduated from the first North American Feldenkrais training in 1977. She has been a two-time President of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America, charter member of the International Feldenkrais Federation Board of [...]

The Feldenkrais Method and Chronic Pain. Does Feldenkrais Help?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:03:46 +0000

The AARP recently posted an article on “alternative therapies” and drug-free treatments for chronic pain. The Feldenkrais Method of Learning was mentioned: Bedridden and folded up in a fetal position, she was unable to brush her hair, shower, or use the bathroom unaided. She teetered on the verge of suicide. Finally, after 15 years, a [...]

Feldenkrias Images and Photos on Flickr

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:40:00 +0000

Image by divamover via Flickr Have you ever wondered what a Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement LessonÂ® looks like? Take a look at the new “FeldyFotos” group on Flickr. Better yet, join Flickr (It’s Free). And then join the FeldyFotos group so you can share image of you Functional Integration sessions, Awareness Through Movement Classes and [...]

Core Integration and Walking With Josef Dellagrotte

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:19:43 +0000

Interesting video by Josef Dellagrotte showing a piece from his last walking workshop, demonstrating exercises to dramatically improve the complex motions needed for efficient and comfortable walking. By the way – I do sell many of Josef’s core integration exercises available as an instant download. They are enjoyable and highly effective. - Ryan

Ralph Strauch and “Composing Experience”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:14:22 +0000

Actually, to be true to Ralph’s work, I should probably write: “Ralph Strauch” in quotes as well. Reality, I think, is a word that should always be put in quotes. Below is a video from one of Ralph’s past Composing Experience workshops. The next is coming up in Vancouver, March, 2009. I have not attended [...]

Dennis Leri Podcast

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:12:01 +0000

I am pleased to present an interview with Dennis Leri. Dennis is not only a Feldenkrais Trainer, but a Martial Artist and Buddhist who has a great deal of experience with thinkers and doers such as Miltion Erickson, Charles S. Peirce, Francisco Varela, Heinz von Foerster and many, many others. He has published dozens of [...]

Of Feldenkrais, Chickens and Movement Possibility

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:45:55 +0000

The YouTube video below had been viewed nearly 500,000 times at the time I posted it below. It shows the “strange to us” ability of a chicken to keep its head completely still, even as the rest of its body moves in different directions. As a student of Moshe Feldenkrais and other movement scientists, I [...]

Of Moshe and Obama: Racial Politics or Post-Modernism?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:59:49 +0000

Over the years in American politics, there have been many charismatic black leaders. Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, and Malcolm X come to mind. Al Sharpton, has been in the news recently, so his name also comes to the fore. I am only slightly familiar with these men, I have not read many of their [...]

Eliminate Back Pain Workshop Audio + Transcripts

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:40:13 +0000

My “Eliminate Back Pain” series has recently been updated, with 4 new sessions to help eliminate back pain while sitting. For practitioners who want to teach their own back pain workshops, I have also added an option that includes transcripts of the 11 Feldenkrais-based sessions. You could be up and running and teaching your own [...]

Is Feldenkrais a Cult?!

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:35:48 +0000

There is a conversation on a private Feldenkrais forum related to some people’s perception of the Feldenkrais Method as a cult. The forum conversation is mainly regarding marketing. That is, finding better ways to explain Feldenkrais principles and introduce people to the work. However, I know from my website database that many people search for [...]

The Invisible and Impotent FeldyForum

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:37:11 +0000

The FeldyForum is an online Yahoo Group moderated by Ralph Strauch. In the words of the moderator it is: …an independent online forum to facilitate communication within the Feldenkrais community worldwide…Memberships are limited to Feldenkrais Practitioners and students in Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs. I would like to add one more fact about the FeldyForum. From [...]

Ruthy Alon: Movement “Nature” Meant

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:51:46 +0000

Ruthy Alon Video The number of Feldenkrais-related video seems to increasing dramatically on YouTube and other online sources. Here’s a gentle one by Ruthy Alon, one of Moshe’s orginal students. I can’t imagine that it would play well to a large market segment and I don’t know if this would be considered a Bones For [...]

Feldenkrais: The Limits of the Medical Model

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:02:55 +0000

I read an interesting post recently on the FeldyForum, an international Yahoo Group of Feldenkrais Practitioners and students that is moderated by Feldenkrais Practitioner Ralph Strauch The FeldyForum post was written by noted Feldenkrais Practitioner and sculptor, Martin Weiner, of Ojai, CA. I spoke with Marty on the first two podcasts that I conducted: A [...]

A Computer Scientist Writes About the Feldenkrais Method

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:19:17 +0000

I bumped into a lovely webpage by a Stanford Professor named Sanjeev Arora, What is the Feldenkrais Method?. I thought his ideas about the method were quite sound and can serve as a useful introduction to the method. Here are his first few words: The Feldenkrais method, invention of Israeli physicist Moshe Feldenkrais, is a [...]

Core Integration MP3′s Downloads

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:03:33 +0000

Core Strengthening and Integration MP3 Downloads by Dr. Josef DellaGrotte I want to welcome a new addition to the Feldenkrais Exercises store. Josef Dellagrotte’s Core Integration Series. Josef is a Core Integration Trainer in Watertown, MA. He trained extensively with Moshe Feldenkrais and Ida Rolf and teaches trainings and workshops all over the world. Josef [...]

Core Integration Video by Dr. Josef DellaGrotte

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:31:16 +0000

Josef Dellagrotte in Stow and Watertown, MA (Massachusetts), sent me a brief video about his Core Integration system and I uploaded it to YouTube. See below. I will have more to say about Josef’s work later and I may be selling some of his products here as mp3 downloads. Check back soon? By the way, [...]

Feldenkrais: Free Your Ankles, Free Your Back

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:37:03 +0000

I’m taking some time to do Ruthy Alon’s Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement series, called “Free Your Back.” (I don’t know where you can buy the series, I bought mine at the FGNA conference in Portland last year.) I’m doing the series for a number of reasons, not the least of which is research – I [...]

Get all 17 Feldenkrais Podcasts Instantly for $14.95

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:58:42 +0000

All seventeen of the podcast interviews on this site can be purchased and downloaded at once – Over 10 hours of material directly to your computer. Interviews and Awareness Through Movement Sessions from Feldenkrais Trainers, Practitioners and researchers, including, Jerry Karzen, Frank Wildman, Larry Goldfarb, Alan Questel, Martin Weiner, Katrin Smithback, Diana Razumny, Alan Fogel, [...]

Feldenkrais Video: The Genesis of Healing

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:31:11 +0000

Have you had a chance to see the mini-documentary on Moshe Feldenkrais and his life, by Brush Fire Films and the Genesis of Healing Televison series? I don’t know where or how to view the entire program, but I have posted the clip below. It is also available on the Brush Fire Films Website. Tell [...]

Feldenkrais® Podcast #17: Moti Nativ

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:17:36 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Welcome to Feldenkrais® Podcasts. Today, we have Moti Nativ, a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Martial Artist from Israel. Moti will be teaching a workshop at the Feldenkrais Conference in Boulder (2008) which is open to both Feldenkrais Practitioners and the public. He was recently in the U.S. teaching in North Carolina and he [...]

Podcast #16: Feldenkrais Method Conference: Katrin Smithback, Diana Razumny

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:49:21 +0000

Today we have Feldenkrais Trainers, Katrin Smithback and Diana Razumny who are Program Committee members (Katrin is the Chairperson) for the next Feldenkrais (FGNA) conference to be held in Boulder Colorado from July 25th to August 1st, 2008. The whole Program Committee “thing” has been a bit of a mystery to me, so I asked [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #15: Dr. Stephen Gilligan

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:43:15 +0000

A Conversatation With Stephen Gilligan Thanks to my good friend Michale Beale, a Business NLP Trainer from the U.K. I can offer you a conversation with Dr. Stephen Gilligan. One of John Grinder and Richard Bandler’s original students, and also a student of Milton H. Erickson, Stephen is now an internationally respected trainer of hypnosis. [...]

Anat Baniel Feldenkrais Video: Feldenkrais Achieved What Medicine Could Not

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:27:11 +0000

I read a post by Hans Holter Solhjell on an online forum, which made me aware of how many new Feldenkrais Video’s have been posted online recently. The video below, in which Anat Baniel, Feldenkrais Trainer appears, is particularly poignant for those of us in the Feldenkrais community. It tells the story that many of [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #14: C. Rabke, Feldenkrais, Structural Integration, Buddhist Guy

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:50:21 +0000

Today we have – Carl Rabke (spelled just like it doesn’t sound). Carl brings a unique perspective to Feldenkrais Podcasts, he is a Structural Integration Practitioner (related to Rolfing), Feldenkrias Practitioner and also a practicing Buddhist . In this podcast, recorded several months ago, I ask Carl why he made the switch from Structural Integration [...]

Feldenkrais MP3 Downloads. Are you selling online yet?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:15:10 +0000

I recently gave my main Feldenkrais site an upgrade. I modified a free web page template to make the site slicker, quicker and easier to load. I also wanted to make it easier to create and sell digital Feldenkrais Products on the website. What is a digital Feldenkrais Product? A CD, DVD, VHS tape or [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #13: Jerry Karzen, Feldenkrais Trainer…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:40:28 +0000

Jerry Karzen shares a Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movementâ„ lesson with us. Jerry created this recording specifically for Feldenkrais Podcasts. Thanks Jerry! Listen carefully and you can hear some birds chirping and singing in the background, probably some deep subliminal messages created by Mother Nature to suggest that you attend Jerry’s next Feldenkrais Training in Hawaii… [...]

Hasidim Rejoice! Feldenkrais Podcasts begin again

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:11:08 +0000

Ok. The summer is over. The World Series of Poker is complete. The FGNA conference in Portland has come and gone. The Web Whisperers have a new marketing workshop in Santa Fe. And I now feel the urge to start podcasting again. Praise Moshe and pass the ammunition! A great season coming up. Awareness Through [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #12: Dr. Frank Wildman

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:26:00 +0000

Dr. Wildman is perhaps one of the most prolific Feldenkrais Trainers having taught dozens of Feldenkrais Trainings in areas as such as the U.S., Japan, Australia and many countries in Europe. In this aproximately 35 minute conversation I talk with Frank about whether the Feldenkrais Method is more accepted in certain parts of the world [...]

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:26:44 +0000

Welcome to Uncommon Sensing©, Part 2, this podcast is a 44 minute, Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement® lesson by Alan Questel from his CD-set “Uncommon Sensing: Moving Beyond Your Self Image.” The introduction to this lesson can be found in Feldenkrais Podcast #10 Here is track #2, a 44-minute exploration of space and dimensionality by use [...]

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:27:54 +0000

Welcome to this free “sampler” of a weekend workshop in Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement® by Alan Questel. Alan was kind enough to share tracks #1 and #2 from the 2nd CD of his Feldenkrais workshop called, “Uncommon Sensing©: Moving Beyond Your Self-Image” You can purchase the entire workshop on CD directly from Alan by sending [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #9: Alan Questel on Creativity

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:41:38 +0000

This is Part Two of my conversation with Alan Questel. In this 20 minute Feldenkrais Podcast we discuss creativity and embodying the creative process. Can creativity be taught with the Feldenkrais Method? Was Moshe actually using Awareness Through Movement to teach creativity? Listen to Alan’s thoughts on these and other topics. Part Two: A conversation [...]

Chava Shelhav: Child’Space Video

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:14:03 +0000

Child’Space video, by Dr. Chava Shelhav, Feldenkrais Practitioner. I’ll wait to say more about the video until I watch it again. I have contacted Chava about speaking to me on the Feldenkrais Podcast. We are looking for some open space to speak.

Feldenkrais Podcast #8: Alan Questel

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:56:20 +0000

As promised, Part 1 of my long-awated podcast with Alan Questel, Feldenkrais Trainer. Sorry for the delay! In my conversation with Alan he speaks about some of the new teaching and learning strategies that he is using in his latest Feldenkrais Training programs, as he explores several questions: Are there more effective ways to teach [...]

What is the Feldenkrais Method?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:24:35 +0000

I will have more to say about this wonderful video later. It was all that I could do to find the time to convert the DVD and then put it up over the weekend. Download a copy of this video: Feldenkrais Promotional Video, Quicktime format: (78 mb): Feldenkrais Video Feldenkrais Promotional Video, Small, Quicktime format: [...]

Frank Wildman Feldenkrais Video – “The brain as the Core of Strength and Stability

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:53:34 +0000

Looks like Frank Wildman, Feldenkrais Trainer, has put some video clips online. Looks great. And excellent information as well. To watch the videos without leaving this site, click the play button on the bottom left hand corner of the video. Take a look: And don’t forgot this one:

Rolfing Podcast: Inside Structural Integration

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:09:40 +0000

I just realized that the “insidesi” website that I quoted in a previous post has a podcast. There are interviews with Will Johnson, Joseph Heller and others. It looks like a great resource for “Somatic Practitioners” of any flavor: Sructural Integration Podcast Cheers – Ryan

Feldenkrais Podcast #7 : Josef Dellagrotte. Welcome Rolfers and Structural Integration Practitioners

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:16:19 +0000

I want to give a hearty welcome on Feldenkrais Podcasts to Josef Dellagrotte, who agreed to speak with me on just a moments notice. With a Rolfer soon to be on Oprah, I thought it would be nice to speak with an individual who had trained with both Ida Rolf and Moshe Feldenkrais. Josef makes [...]

Rolfing on Oprah: Congratulations!

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:28:16 +0000

On behalf of many like-minded people in the Feldenkrais Community, I would to congratulate Rolfer’s and Structural Integrationists around the world for their profession’s appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on April 11th, 2007. I first heard about the Oprah appearance on the “structural evolution blog” which noted: Check out John Martine on Oprah April [...]

Feldenkrais Method, Rolfing, and Alexander Technique…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:14:30 +0000

Historically speaking, I do not know much about interactions between Ida Rolf and Moshe Feldenkrais. I remember a delightfully arrogant pronounciation that Moshe made about Alexander. He said that if Alexander had lived another 10 years, he would might have been able to invent the Feldenkrais Method…. But I have not heard much about Moshe’s [...]

Feldenkrais® Podcast: A Primer.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:10:42 +0000

If you have never listened to a podcast or audio on you computer may want to read the text below. Otherwise, feel free to skip the text and go directly to the podcast links at the end of this post. What is a Podcast? A podcast is simply an audio-file in a format that most [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #6 : Jerry Karzen

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:30:12 +0000

Jerry Karzen – One of Moshe Feldenkrais’ original American students. Find out how Jerry found himself in the San Francisco International Feldenkrais Training in 1977. And how he ultimately came to become a close friend of Dr. Feldenkrais and organize the Amherst Training in 1980. Learn the story behind Jerry’s filming of Moshe Feldenkrais that [...]

Advanced Feldenkrais Workshop with Yochanan Rywerant

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:30:18 +0000

This Feldenkrais advanced training with Yochanan Rywerant recently came to my attention (thanks to Eva Laser in Sweden), so I thought I would post information about it. I do not know much about Yochanon, but according to the workshop description, Yochanon is: …one of the most knowledgeable and experienced Feldenkrais teachers in the world. He [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #5: Dr. Alan Fogel

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:55:59 +0000

I first came across Dr. Fogel’s work through a presentation arranged by Mark Reese back in 1998..or so. Mark brought Alan to one of his San Diego Feldenkrais Trainings to give a 1-day workshop on…well, I don’t remember what it was on, but it was really, really, cool and it made perfect sense at the [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #4 : Dr. Larry Goldfarb discusses Feldenkrais Research

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:19:11 +0000

Image of Larry Goldfarb In this podcast with Larry Goldfarb, and the next with Alan Fogel (coming soon), we discuss some issues related to Feldenkrais research. What are the roles of research in a “systemic” methodology such as the Feldenkrais Method? Can research inform Feldenkrais practice? Is it possible that researchers are actually looking for [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #3 : A conversation with Dr. Larry Goldfarb

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:43:13 +0000

This is the first of two conversations that I have had with Dr. Goldfarb. In this conversation we focus on Larry’s use of technology to train Feldenkrais Practitioners. I contacted him to be on the Feldenkrais Podcast because Larry really seems to “get” technology and I wanted to know how he employs it in his [...]

The Vagus, Feldenkrais, and Anna Nicole Smith (??)

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:39:44 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Last week I had a meeting with my dissertation advisor, Alan Fogel, and he had some anatomy pictures on his computer screen related the “Vagus.” I have to admit, I do not know much about the Vagus and I never found out why Alan was looking at the pictures – perhaps in [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #2 : Further down the Rabbit Hole with Marty Weiner

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:12:20 +0000

Click the link to listen to the podcast: Another conversation with Martin Weiner (not Wiener) Marty has added another date for his Feldenkrias Advanced Training: Mentor with a Master. Here are the details: WHEN: March 30-April 1. TIME: 9:00am – 5:30pm LOCATION: VENTURA, CALIFORNIA COST: $450 $75 DEPOSIT DUE BY FEBRUARY 23, 2007 Sponsored by [...]

“My Feldenkrais Lessons”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:07:39 +0000

The next podcast will be up in about 48 hours. In the meantime take a look at this blog post, by a Feldenkrais Student. His blog is called “pictures from my cell phone:” Once a week, on Wednesdays, after swimming forty lengths in the pool, I get on my motorcycle and go to the place [...]

Feldenkrais: A reason to be cheerful.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:04:55 +0000

I thought this was cute – a short list by a blogger on reasons to be cheerful. She mentions winter sunlight, bubble baths and Feldenkrais: Reasons to be cheerful. Also, the following online article is short on detail, but it does mention the Feldenkrais Method: With God’s help, Batya lived through the night. After a [...]

Feldenkrais Podcast #1: A Conversation with Martin Weiner

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:21:06 +0000

Hello everyone – Welcome to the first of what is – I hope – many conversations with Martin Wiener and other individuals of interest to the Feldenkrais community and our friends. Martin (Marty) has a workshop coming up in Ventura, California, March 23 – 25th. We will talk about this workshop and Marty’s approach in [...]

Feldenkrais in the News: The Hudson Reporter, New Jersey

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:09:22 +0000

A rather heartwarming story reported in the Hudson Reporter. A Feldenkrais Practitioner helps a stroke victim. When Freed [a Feldenkrais Practitioner] first met Barbara [who had suffered a stroke] , the therapist couldn’t believe what she was seeing. “Barbara wasn’t with it,” Freed said. “She could open her eyes and smile, but she couldn’t do [...]

Martin Weiner, the Feldy Forum, Feldenkrais podcasts and….

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:50:03 +0000

The quote below deserves so much more attention than I am going to give it right now (hey, damn it. It’s Saturday night and got things to do), but I do want to get it online. It is from Martin (Marty) Weiner, a Feldenkrais Practitioner that I have wanted to know more about for several [...]

AmbivaBlog’s latest mentioning of the Feldenkrais Method…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:32:39 +0000

From time-to-time “Ambivablog” comes up on my radar screen when the author writes a post about the Feldenkrais Method. Here is her latest Feldenkrais post. The main page of AmbivaBlog has a list of all the Feldenkrais Posts on the lower right hand side. Enjoy – Ryan

Feldenkrais Training, “exercises,” and CD’s – too late for Christmas!!

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:28:03 +0000

Oh, what the hell – too late to order and get them before Christmas, but I thought I’d give a quick plug for my friends Seth and Laura Paris from Easy Movement. Seth and Laura sell high quality Feldenkrais products – CD’s, DVDs etc. I highly recommend them: Easy Movement Feldenkrais Products. Doh! I forgot [...]

New Feldenkrais Research Articles.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:56:29 +0000

Feldenkrais and Alzheimers: Ann, J. (2006). Individuals with dementia learn new habits and are empowered through the Feldenkrais method. Alzheimerâ€™s Care Quarterly, 7(4), 278-86. Feldenkrais increases muscle length without the use of stretching: Stephens, J., Davidson, J., DeRosa, J., Kriz, M., and Saltzman, N. (2006). Lengthening the hamstring muscles without stretching using “awareness through movement.” [...]

New site: Feldenkrais Central in Southern California

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:30:46 +0000

I just discovered an incredibly well-done Feldenkrais website from Darcia Dexter. Darcia is a Feldenkrais Practitioner who works in and around Los Angeles and Orange County. Check it out: FeldenkraisCentral Out the door for a short vacation. Will write more about Darica’s Website next week. cheers – Ryan

Feldenkrais and “Energy”

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:02:44 +0000

Just read a post on a blog called Research and Remedies in Human Behavior. The blogger does not allow comments, so there is no way to directly communicate with him. Here’s what he wrote: …in my somatic education classes I have begun truly exploring my body in movement, especially what concerns the hips. I find [...]

A beginner’s guide to Feldenkrais lessons? Where?!

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:04:24 +0000

There are number of good, free resources online that can give you descriptions of the Feldenkrais Method of Learning. Larry Goldfarb, a Feldenkrais Trainer, gives away several on one of his webpages. I especially like “Felden-what?!!” and “The Three C’s.” Heres a link to an article that I like from the Feldenkrais Guild, called, “A [...]

Feldenkrais Classes and Workshops in Salt Lake City, Utah

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:43:34 +0000

In the last week alone, I have received over a half-dozen requests on my main website, for information on Feldenkrais classes and workshops (or “feldenkrais exercises” as some people like to say) here in Salt Lake City, Utah. My internet promotion and marketing businesses, as well as my research and teaching responsibilities, keep my from [...]

Feldenkrais Training in New York City?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:09:22 +0000

I just got off the phone with my friend Stefany who lives in the upper east side in New York City. Gets me to thinking – when should I visit New York next and where are the Feldenkrais Trainings in New York City? No point in visiting the Met, if I cannot also roll around [...]

Feldenkrais on myspace

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:40:58 +0000

I noticed an interesting post on myspace today. A Feldenkrais Practitioner named Daniel Burkholder is using his myspace account to post announcements about his Feldenkrais Classes in Washington, D.C. Great idea! For those of you who do not know about myspace, it is a so-called “social networking site” where people post details about themselves and [...]

Feldenkrais and Dance.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:42:19 +0000

When I first started applying the Feldenkrais Method to Dance, I was doing so mainly as a matter of happenstance. While finishing my 4-year Feldenkrais training, I was living in San Francisco in a house full of Ballet Dancers. They became my first Feldenkrais clients and my practice evolved to include more and more dancers. [...]

The Feldenkrais Method in North London.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:41:07 +0000

I have an alert service (Google Alerts – it’s free) that tells me when new items have been posted online about the Feldenkrais Method. This morning, I recieved one regarding “The Good Health Guide” a website about holistic resources in North London. It appears to be a group blog of sorts, where various holistic health [...]

International Feldenkrais Federation (IFF) Releases New DVDs/mp3′s

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:00:22 +0000

I am currently at the FGNA Conference – The Feldenkrais Guild of North America’s National Conference in New York. There is much that I could write about, but as a techno-geek who likes to put DVD’s in his computer and mp3 files in his iPod, I must admit that I am stoked about the IFF’s [...]

Feldenkrais video by Feldenkrais Trainer, Larry Goldfarb

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:15:28 +0000

Ever wanted to know what a Feldenkrais lesson looks like? Check out the video below from Larry Goldfarb. Larry conducts Feldenkrais Method trainings all over the word. The short clip below is from a DVD series called “Ideas in Action,” designed to train Feldenkrais Practitioners, but if you are totally new to the world of [...]

Blogs will change your Feldenkrais business.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:28:14 +0000

For those of you who have taken me up on my challenge to start a Feldenkrais Blog, Business Week has just published an excellent article about Blogs and Blogging. Take a look at, Blogs Will Change Your Business. And if you are interested in what to DO with your blog now that you have one [...]

Doubts about chiropractic benefits for back pain

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:10:14 +0000

The article below about chiropractic care is old news I suppose, but I thought to include it here for several reasons. The main one being that I have a renewed interest in intervention research and its possible relation to the Feldenkrias Method. The article appears to be written by someone associated with quackwatch. Quackwatch usually [...]

2 Free, Non-Technical Ways to start a Feldenkrais Blog…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:22:11 +0000

A) My favorite: WordPress. WordPress is open-source and free. They have a community of dedicated users who have created many themes that help you to customize your look. If you can do your own hosting there are literally 100′s of themes. B) Blogger. Not my favorite, mainly because they are corporate and not as flexible [...]

Feldenkrais Method® Video on YouTube?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:48:43 +0000

Ahh…one of my favorite lessons “Book on Foot.” Or in this case “Books on Feet and Arms” – on YouTube! Hmmm. I fear that the uninitiated will see this video and think it some cute parlor trick or worse yet – a fraud. However, what it represents is a human being capable of enacting true [...]

Feldenkrais and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:51:16 +0000

The website design is not particularly impressive, but Dr. Richard Sanders is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Thoracic Outlet Syndrom (TOC) and he recommends the Feldenkrais Method as a treatment for the disorder. Here’s a brief quote: Abdominal breathing, posture correction, and nerve glides, carried out on a daily basis, are a part [...]

The Feldenkrais Method on Wikipedia

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:53:33 +0000

I am amazed at how often Wikipedia comes up on my various searches of google. Whether I am looking up Moshe Feldenkrais, Jean Piaget or ideas from Developmental Psychology, Wikipedia seems to get “hit.” That site must get millions of hits per day. I am equally astounded that there is NO ADVERTISING on Wikipedia! The [...]

Breastfeeding and the Feldenkrais Method.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:04:04 +0000

How can the Feldenkrais Method help you become a better breastfeeder? Hmmm…ambiguity of the previous sentences aside, I’m not actually going to talk about that. However, “Baby Talk” magazine put a picture of a breastfeeding baby on the cover of its August, 2006 edition and it created quite a stir. Several thousand people wrote letters [...]

Feldenkrais at the University of Utah and beyond…

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:12:56 +0000

Several years ago when I first began graduate school, I read through my advisor’s infancy textbook called Infancy: Infant, Family, and Society and noticed that the book included instructions for many Feldenkrais, Awareness Through MovementÂ® lessons. It was great to see a college text that included the Feldenkrais Method as part of it’s core content. [...]

Begin at the Beginning: A Feldenkrais Experiment.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:15:29 +0000

I am reading a book by Henry Miller called, Black Spring. I am not quite getting the book. It seems to meander all over the place and does not have a coherent theme that I can pick up on. None the less, like many of Henry Miller’s books it contains useful insights that can jump [...]

Understanding Understanding

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 30 May 2006 16:10:58 +0000

I picked up von Foerster’s Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition from the University of Utah library. Parts of the book are way too mathematical for the average reader (and myself) to understand but he does have some amazing one-liners and great thoughts about learning. One passage to which I am drawn is from [...]

Understanding Standing

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 28 May 2006 16:55:51 +0000

Understanding Standing is the title of Larry Goldfarb’s doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of Illinois. In the work Larry attempts to give a modern theoretical explanation of the Feldenkrais Method (I assume that the title of Larry’s dissertation is a play on words from Heinz von Foerster’s systems theory book called, Understanding Understanding.) I [...]

Maturity, Potency, and Action.

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:05:34 +0000

I am continuing to read Moshe Feldenkrais’ book: The Potent Self. (the 1985 edition). On page 110, there is a paragraph that reads, “In the properly matured individual, activity is spontaneous in all familiar circumstances and potent when a more refined control is required. The spontaneity and the potency are possible because the mature adult [...]

Book Recommendation: The Potent Self

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:57:15 +0000

I would like to recommend a book to you: The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion by Moshe Feldenkrais. I first read The Potent Self over twelve years ago. I devoured it with a ravenous hunger that I think can only be explained by the fact that I “needed” to hear the ideas [...]

New site up (aahhh, that’s nice).

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 13 May 2006 17:18:42 +0000

My newly designed Feldenkrais website is up. It took about a month, and much less money and time than I expected. How often do you get to say that? I am quite happy with the job that Sharmistha did. He went far beyond my expectations. There is still much “tweaking” and changing that I want [...]

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and Chronic Pain

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:48:52 +0000

The initial re-organization of my home and recording studio is nearly complete. With the end of the semester at hand, and the re-do of my website almost done, I am ready to begin recording my product for sufferers of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and chronic pain, it should be available on the web in 3 months. [...]

Will power (yuck).

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:51:04 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I took a short run/jog/walk up City Creek Canyon this morning. To those of you who have never experienced the pleasure of living or working in Utah, you may be surprised how quickly nature is available here – skiing, rock-climbing, mountain biking in whatever terrain you choose – deep desert or deep [...]

The Business of Learning?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:50:32 +0000

or is it the business of health? Perhaps I could say the learning of business? The last year has been quite a whirlwind of activity as I extend my experience in many new directions. Moshe Feldenkrais and many of his friends and students spoke about “learning how to learn.” Moshe himself was a master of [...]

New blog?

ryan@ryannagy.com (Ryan Nagy) — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:09:16 +0000

How many blogs does a person need? How many blogs are useful? Well, in may case time will tell. My Feldenkrias site is in the middle of an udgrade and I am rather excited to see the final product. Although I have enjoyed learning the basics of webprogramming and learning to use DreamWeaver, I am [...]