The Moment Where We Begin...
An Exploration between Intention and Action
by: Alan Questel

When and how do our thoughts and intentions turn into actions? How often do we unknowingly create unnecessary work for ourselves? The significance of these questions is key to accurately fulfilling our objectives in life. By discovering how we initiate the things we do, we can improve our efficiency, reduce discomfort and create a more satisfying life.

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7 Feldenkrais® lessons with discussions. 4 CDs or Download. $60.00, Your Price: $54.00 w/coupon.

The Pleasure of Challenge - The Challenge of Pleasure
by: Alan Questel

Is it a challenge for you to have more pleasure in your life? Could you imagine experiencing greater pleasure each time you are faced with a challenge? Enhance your understanding of how you respond to the challenge of finding more pleasure in your life. Discover the pleasure in meeting a challenge!

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7 Feldenkrais® lessons with discussions. 4 CDs or Download. $60.00, Your Price: $54.00 w/coupon.

Falling...
by: Alan Questel

This audio program will explore the theme of falling. What is the relationship between falling and safety, risk, creativity, enhanced abilities and a life that is a little bit easier? Through Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® we will look at the benefits we may derive from a deeper understanding and experience of falling. If the idea of falling concerns you, be assured that no demands will be placed on you that are beyond your abilities. This audio program is geared towards participants of all levels of experience with Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® and of all ages who are seeking a more familiar relationship with the floor that carries us.

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7 Feldenkrais® lessons with discussions. 4 CDs or Download. $60.00, Your Price: $54.00 w/coupon.

Creating Creativity - Embodying the Creative Process
by: Alan Questel

Being more creative is something many of us wish for. How do we access it? We will define the foundational aspects of what it means to be creative and discover how we can more fully embody the creative process.

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7 Feldenkrais® lessons with discussions. 5 CDs or Download. $60.00, Your Price: $54.00 w/coupon.

Uncommon Sensing™ - Moving Beyond Your Self-image
by: Alan Questel

How we perceive our self and our world is colored by our personal history, actions and behavior. In this audio program you will discover that it can be easy and fun to move beyond your self-image.

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7 Feldenkrais® lessons with discussions. 5 CDs or Download. $60.00, Your Price: $54.00 w/coupon.

So how do we come to "know what we are doing?" Developing our awareness is the path to "knowing what we are doing." When our actions become REVERSIBLE, we can truly say we have more choices in what we do and how we achieve it. Being able to easily move from where we are...to where we are going...while being able to effortlessly change directions at any moment is the focus of our inquiry. Utilizing Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® lessons, we will develop our capacity for "reversibility" and discover its impact on our actions, emotions and thinking.

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8 Feldenkrais® lessons with discussions. 6 CDs or Download. $60.00, Your Price: $54.00 w/coupon.

Getting Hip!
by Alan Questel

Discover your hip joints! Your hip joints are the key to easy and comfortable movement - but they are also mysterious and hidden from our self-image. To move powerfully from your hip joints is more than just a nice idea, it is an experience you can embrace and utilize more and more frequently in your daily life.

Listen to the Introduction Now! 15:33

8 Feldenkrais® lessons with discussions. 6 CDs or Download. $60.00, Your Price: $54.00 w/coupon.

May the Force Go Through You
by Alan Questel

Easier, more comfortable living can emerge from a more efficient use of our skeleton, yet this ability is a hidden and relatively unperceived aspect of who we are. Finding our skeleton allows a new way for us to interact with our environment.

Through Awareness Through Movement® we will discover how we can become more "skeletal", resulting in a new and more vital sense of ourselves in a truly foundational way.

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8 Feldenkrais® Lessons with discussions. 6 CDs or Download. $60. Your Price: $54.00 w/coupon.

Cognitive Qualifiers
by Steve Andreas

Happily, John McWhirter has described a fascinating and subtle linguistic example of how the mind can be preset to respond in a particular way that, sadly, others have not previously noticed. A "cognitive qualifier" is a "commentary" adverb appearing at the beginning of a sentence or phrase that refers to an emotional or cognitive state, such as "happily" or "sadly" in the previous sentence. A cognitive qualifier prepares the mind to respond in a specified way to whatever words follow.

To experience this effect, think of an ordinary descriptive sentence like, "The green tree is standing in the sunlight," or "I am sitting at the desk," and imagine saying this sentence to yourself.

Now imagine saying the exact same sentence, but preceded by the word "sadly," and notice how this changes your experience.

Then say the same sentence, but preceded by the word "happily," and again pay attention to your experience. Continue reading...

Modal Operators
by Steve Andreas

Modal Operators: Article Excerpt
1. What are they anyway? What do they do, and how do they work?

A Modal Operator (MO) is “mode of operating,” a way of being in the world and relating to part of it, or all of it. A MO is a verb that modifies another verb, so it is always followed by another verb. “I have to work.” “I can become successful.”

Since a verb always describes an activity or process, a MO is a verb that modifies how an activity is done. A MO functions in the same way that an adverb does, and perhaps should be called an adverb. An adverb sometimes precedes the verb that is modified, and sometimes follows it, while a MO always precedes it, and this is part of the power of a MO. A MO sets a general orientation or global direction before we know what the activity is. Often a person says simply, “I can't,” or “I want to,” since the content is specified by the context. However, since the words themselves do not specify a content or context, it is very easy to generalize the statement to a wide range of content/contexts. Continue reading...

Use Your Buts Well
by Steve Andreas

One powerful aspect of NLP is to discover what kind of internal experience is elicited by the use of specific language. This enables us to use language in a very directed way in order to get the results that we want. Often the careful examination of a single word yields great dividends, and the word "but" is certainly one of them.

"But" is a negator (Fritz Perls used to call it a "killer") of whatever experience immediately precedes the word. For me, the image preceding the word "but" quickly slides to my left, disappearing out of my field of internal vision. So "but" is very useful any time you want to (or have to) mention something to someone, but then you want it to diminish in importance or even disappear from their awareness altogether.

Notice what happens in your internal experience when you take any two contents, connect them with "but," and then repeat this, but reversing the two contents. A tired old joke illustrates this nicely. The mother says to the daughter: "I know he's ugly, but he's rich." and the daughter replies, "Mother, you are so right. I know he's rich, but he's ugly." Continue reading...

To learn more about NLP and the work of Steve Andreas, visit his site: www.SteveAndeas.com

Trilogy Vol. 2: Inside Touch
By Larry Goldfarb

What Makes the Feldenkrais® Touch Unique and Effective?

Inside Touch reveals the repertoire of Functional Integration® - from skeletal contact, directional touch, kinesthetic conversation, the listening hand, and tactile tracking to the most advanced techniques. Exploring the strategies, tactics, and techniques that comprise Functional Integration lessons, you learn how touch teaches, while refining hands-on sensitivity and developing your tactile intuition. Doing Awareness Through Movement® lessons that examine the relationship of the hand and arm to the center, you learn about how you engage in touch, recognizing and starting to move beyond the influence of your habits.

• Recognize what students need and discover how to engage their curiosity.
• Cultivate hands-on sensitivity, skill and strategy.
• Learn what makes a lesson a lesson . . . and how to turn that knowledge into persuasive, lasting learning.

Price: $325.00, 10 DVDs in a binder with a data CD which includes a Study Guide, Articles and SPIFFER notes. Your Price: $292.50 w/coupon.

Creating Effortless Posture: Let Gravity Do the Work
by Erin Ferguson, M.A., GCFP

What if you were willing to let go absolutely?
What would hold you up?
First you have to feel what support really is.
Then you can do the big stuff in life.

In these two CDs, Erin Ferguson will present “The Magic Roller Lessons.” These are gentle, powerful Awareness Through Movement® lessons that awaken your ability to sense an unhindered transmission of force through your bones to the ground. To do these lessons, you will need a two thick blankets, space to lie on the �oor, and a bath towel.

The movements are easy and accessible and suitable for all levels from those in chronic pain to high performance athletes, the challenge will be in trusting yourself to make new adjustments to gravity as you sense greater possibilities for support.

Contents:

• A Flexible Spine
• Releasing the Neck
• Easy Shoulders
• Fluid Low Back
• Note on Posture - Listen Now

With these lessons you will be able to:

• Find harmony with gravity
• Sleep better
• Move easier
• Breathe a sigh of relief
• Clear your head
• Learn tools to ease a tense spine, neck, and shoulders now and for years to come

4 Feldenkrais® Lessons, 2 CDs in a binder or Download, $26.00

Embodied Learning: Focus on Breathing
by Elizabeth Beringer

We all know that life depends on our ability to breathe. What is not as obvious is the extent to which the quality of our breathing affects the quality of our life. Many people live unnecessarily with a restricted ability to breathe. This may be due to trauma, ongoing pain or simply the adoption of bad habits. This eight-session program leads the user step-by-step through important aspects of healthy breathing. Each lesson artfully combines imagination, breath and movement to create the basis for fuller and more comfortable breathing.

The way we breathe is normally something that happens outside of our conscious control. Using Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® lessons, one finds that it is possible to let go of habits that interfere with full breathing and instill new, healthier habits. Breath and movement are intertwined; people using this program report not only expanded breathing ability but also increased flexibility. The lessons proceed gently, and each person can learn at their own pace. Focus on Breathing can be a great support for anyone recovering from surgery, dealing with pain or looking to increase their overall health and vitality.

Price: $56.95, 4 CDs in a binder, 8 Feldenkrais® Lessons, Your Price: $51.26 w/coupon.

Ideas in Action Vol 3: Improving Balance & Developing Coordination
By Larry Goldfarb

Learn the structure & strategy of Functional Integration� (FI) lessons. Explore the theory and practice of the Method by teaching lessons around a specific functional theme. Develop an understanding of not just what to do, but why. Each phase of a lesson is presented with an eye to technical detail and to an explanation of the reasoning behind it. Considering time-tested lessons as if they followed the same logic as a musical score, Ideas In Action brings to light the compositional sense, technical organization and experiential processes that underlie effective, unforgettable learning.

You will learn, step-by-step, what to notice and how to respond. This fosters the deep appreciation of the grammar & syntax of lessons necessary to become a reflective practitioner. The finer points of technique and self-use are clarified.

In this program you will:
� Cultivate movement observation abilities
� Refine hands-on sensitivity & skills
� Develop better self-use
� Study classic lesson composition
� Learn FI scores & strategies
� Enhance creativity & intuition
� Become a more effective educator

Ideas in Action Vol 3:Price: $425.00, 19 DVDs in a binder with a data CD which includes a Study Guide, MP3 files of the ATMs and SPIFFER notes. Your Price: $382.50 w/coupon.

Foundations of the Feldenkrais Method®: A Framework for Learning
by Erin Ferguson, M.A.

The Feldenkrais Method® offers a particular type of learning that de-habituates the familiar sensory-motor pathways in your brain. It provides new coordination and skill while leaving you relaxed, refreshed, and focused.

How do these lessons work? Often the lessons are like puzzles in which you figure out how to move around fixed constraints. This prompts the nervous system to activate different muscle patterns than those you usually use. Your attitude of curiosity and exploration can bring about a major change in your habitual movement and experience. Improve your ability to perform daily tasks, whether you're lifting up your child, putting away the dishes, or training for a marathon.

1. Introduction - Listen Now
2. Standing the legs
3. Turning through the spine

1 CD in a Jewel Case or Download, 65 Min., list price: $16.95, Your Price w/coupon: $15.26.

Vocal Integration with the Feldenkrais Method® - CDs or Download
by Richard Corbeil

If you want to develop your speaking or singing voice, this audio program is a must-have! Improve speaking and singing by emulating the kind of movements and sounds that infants use to develop their voices. Enhance your voice by reprogramming the neuromuscular patterns that are the building blocks of vocal functioning.

Listen to the Introduction Now! 09:20

4 CDs in a binder or Download, list price: $69.95, Your Price w/coupon: $62.96.

A Guide to Body Sense: Vol. 1 Movement Patterns
by Robert J. Burgess, PhD, GFCP

A Guide to Body Sense is an essential resource for Feldenkrais® Practitioners, health professionals, as well as the public, who are interested in exploring their body-self relationship. Fifty beautifully illustrated Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® lessons are presented in the book with eighty pages of text. Each of the eight chapters explores anatomical segments and their relationships - the pelvis, trunk, arm-trunk coordination, leg-trunk coordination, feet and hands, movements in sitting, eyes, head & neck, and various advanced movements. The lessons in each chapter are presented as short sequences of movements which clearly enhance the sense of the skeletal movement and alignment. The book is designed to free the body of inefficient habitual patterns, easing chronic conditions and keeping you young.

• Download the table of contents and chapter samples.

Price: $45.00, 50 Feldenkrais® Lessons, 130 Pages, Wire Bound. Your Price: $40.50 w/coupon.

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