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Products by Moshe Feldenkrais
About
the Author Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., (1904 - 1984)
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 emigrated 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. Falling on a submarine, 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 to 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 methods worldwide. |
