|
|
|
|
| Moshe
Feldenkrais, D.Sc., (1904 - 1984) |
|
|
|
By
Dr. Feldenkrais
|
 Send
Page |  Questions
or Comments?
|
|
|
|
 |
The Feldenkrais
Method® was originated by Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., a pioneer
in movement science and the innovator of therapeutic and educational
approaches. Feldenkrais was born in Russia in 1904 and immigrated to
Palestine at the age of 14. He undertook this journey without his family
as a member of a caravan from his village. As a young man, he was an
excellent athlete and through the influence of a British officer, learned
jujitsu. He was both a very physical young man and an excellent student
with a creative mind. Even at a young age he was interested in the
inner development of the human being. He was influenced by Coue's work
in autosuggestion and early writings on both the unconscious mind and
the self-image.
Feldenkrais earned his doctorate in physics at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he
assisted Nobel Prize Laureate Frederic Joliot-Curie at the Curie Institute. During
his university years, he met Kano, the originator of judo. He became one of the
first Europeans to receive a black belt in Judo and was the founder of the French
Judo Association. Feldenkrais studied Judo intensively and became a well-known
Judo teacher.
During World War II, Feldenkrais went to England where he worked in antisubmarine
research, trained paratroopers in self-defense techniques and authored books
on judo. He aggravated an old soccer injury to his knees and began many years
of extended work on himself. His own recovery process and subsequent wide-ranging
research resulted in the creation of the unique educational system - the Feldenkrais
Method and it components Awareness
Through Movement® and Functional
Integration® - which incorporated his background in physics and
Judo along with a lifelong interest in human development. Upon moving to Israel,
he gave up his work as an engineer and researcher and proceeded to use his genius
to directly help people live more fulfilling lives. Feldenkrais was fluent
in six languages and authored six books on his method. Feldenkrais died in 1984,
leaving a small group of highly-trained practitioners who have continued to teach
his method worldwide.
|
|
| Famous
Quotes by Dr. Feldenkrais |
|
"Movement
is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process
and you improve the quality of life itself."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
"If you know what you are doing, you can do what you want."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
"What I'm after isn't flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What
I'm after is to restore each person to their human dignity."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
"I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective
reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but
an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could
not think."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
"Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies
the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths
to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their
strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves,
those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and
they lead their generation."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
"Without movement life is unthinkable."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
"We make the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy
elegant."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
"...self-knowledge through awareness is the goal of reeducation.
As we become aware of what we are doing in fact, and not what we
say or think we are doing, the way to improvement is wide open to us."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
|
|
|
