My free audio ATM project turns two today! — May 11

Two years, 30 free ATM lessons
(and counting…)

Thank you listeners and donors from around the world!

Back on May 11, 2015 I launched my free streaming audio ATM project as a personal passion project. Sharing the life-changing benefits of the Feldenkrais Method as widely as possible — without paywall or password — is my goal. I love the feeling I get from freely sharing something incredibly valuable to me, as well as the learning opportunities I’ve found while creating and uploading these edited, live-recorded classes.

Just this week I finally presented a satisfying new teaching of an important Feldenkrais “basic training” lesson. I studied, recorded, edited, and uploaded this month’s featured new lesson… Read more in the May edition of the Twin Cities Feldenkrais Newsletter.

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National Press: I'm in Experience Life Magazine! — April 5

[Updated 4/5/17: added link to the main article, now that it’s online.]

I’m excited to share with you that my work is featured in the April 2017 issue of Experience Life magazine, the national publication of Life Time Fitness Health Clubs! Last fall Maggie Fazeli Fard, Senior Fitness Editor for Experience Life, attended one of my walking workshops and interviewed me for her feature on rediscovering the joys of walking well. The article strikes a really healthy tone about self improvement. I’m quoted several times at the beginning and end, along with various walking experts.

The piece ends with a complete text Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson I wrote. It’s based on a lesson I taught in the workshop, and there’s a link to a version of it I recorded as one of my free online audio lessons.

Click here to read the main article, “Relearn to Walk.”

The last section is “3 Steps to Better Walking,” the magazine’s title for my Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson. It’s a chair-seated text adaptation I made of my free streaming audio lesson called Your Navigational Pelvis.  Unfortunately in the magazine version there’s a misleading illustration and a text error. Click here for a correction, or to stream Your Navigational Pelvis right now.

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Info and lessons from Healthy Back workshop — March 15

Fundamentals of a Healthy Back workshop, 3/13/17

Goals, principles, and free streaming audio lessons used in my recent Fundamentals of a Healthy Back workshop.

I get lots of requests to upload and share recordings of my workshops, and because of the way I like to organize and teach them this hasn’t been easy to do so far. When I get the chance to teach long form Feldenkrais I like to be able to segue in and out of lessons and discussions pretty freely, and to layer or nest lessons within one another as the cumulative learning of the workshop develops and we refer back to things already discovered. Because of that free structure, plus discussions peppered in, and sometimes handouts and demonstrations, I haven’t been able to share the workshop experience in the same focused structure that I use to deliver my regular audio lesson recordings.

But let’s try something new! I’d like to use another format to share some material from Monday’s workshop with you, and also point you to specific lessons from my free streaming audio collection that I drew on in the workshop. These are useful if you’d like to play with some of the goals and principles on your own. All of this comes out of the home-study resources email I’m writing for workshop participants today (I send “homework” emails to participants after every workshop I teach). Read more »