When Moshe Feldenkrais was fourteen, after years of Jews being attacked in anti-Semitic Russian pogroms, he set out alone to walk from Belarus to Palestine. A pistol in his boot, a math text in his ...

Moshé Feldenkrais was born in Ukraine in 1904, then part of the Russian Empire. Three major influences shaped the life of Feldenkrais: soccer, judo, and his studies in physics. His soccer career ended ...

To try to explain this unexpected circumstance, Feldenkrais put forward the following body and brain hypothesis. “When one side of the brain is inhibited, often the other takes over its functions. The ...

These injured athletes, dancers, musicians or office workers are trying to fix what’s broken. Some are looking for a way around the limitations caused by a stroke, Parkinson’s disease or cerebral ...

Michele Westlaken’s soft voice guides her students—lying on mats at the Saratoga Area Senior Center—to gently set their right feet on the ground, and slowly move their hips away from the floor. She ...