This method of re-educating the nervous system can be beneficial to a wide range of people, including athletes, children, the elderly, martial artists, those who are handicapped, people with special needs, and those suffering from degenerative diseases.
Here is another definition of what it actually does:
The Feldenkrais Method reconnects the body to its natural movements,
focusing on the relationship between motion and thought. It works with the
nervous system, rather than muscles or bones, to improve everyday motion.
The above definition was in feb 2011 dance mag. It accompanied an article by
Stephen Petronio "Injury as Opportunity"
The Feldenkrais method of education is named after its founder, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. It is a form of somatic education that uses gentle movement and directed attention to improve ones movement and to enhance functioning.
The Feldenkrais method of excercise is a method made to allow for dynamic movement and helps the disabled to regain motor control. More information can be found here: http://www.feldenkrais.com/method/article/anti_exercise_for_the_older_and_wiser/
Since Moshe Feldenkrais began to teach his method, it has gradually gained acceptance as an education system. Published research using the method can be found in U.S. and foreign publications.
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Feldenkrais method is its emphasis on new patterns of thinking, attention, cognition, and imagination as byproducts of new patterns of physical movement.
A method of "somatic education" which means learning through movement. See http://www.feldenkrais.com.
The Feldenkrais method is an educational system that allows the body to move and function more efficiently and comfortably. Its goal is to re-educate the nervous system and improve motor ability.
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Moshe Feldenkrais was born on May 6, 1904.
Moshe Feldenkrais was born on May 6, 1904.
Moshe Feldenkrais died on July 1, 1984 at the age of 80.
Somatic education describes the way people use self-awareness when they move their bodies. The term is used by Moshe Feldenkrais in his Feldenkrais method, and in Joseph Heller's Hellerwork, another system of body work. Feldenkrais theorized that if we use thought and movement together, as our body movement becomes more efficient, our creativity and intelligence would be enhanced.
Steven Shafarman has written: 'Practical Feldenkrais for dynamic health' -- subject(s): Feldenkrais method 'We the people' -- subject(s): Citizen Policies Institute (Washington, D.C.), Citizen participation, Political participation, Political planning