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The Science of the Feldenkrais Method®
From The Editors
Every Feldenkrais® practitioner knows that Moshe Feldenkrais was a highly accomplished physicist before he created the transformative somatic learning modality that is known today as the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. However, during his lifetime, Feldenkrais was not fully accepted by the scientific community and much of what he understood about the role of learning in the development of a human nervous system was not verified by scientific study until after his death.
So, what is the science of the Feldenkrais Method?
In this edition of InTouch magazine, our contributors answer this question from two directions - from the outside looking in and from the inside out!
In his interview with InTouch editor Seth Dellinger, Feldenkrais practitioner Cliff Smyth, the editor of the Feldenkrais Research Journal, discusses scientific research on the Feldenkrais Method and gives a demonstration of how practitioners can directly access the available studies. Harriet Goslins, who studied with Feldenkrais at his Amherst training in the early 80s, draws on her 4 decades of teaching experience and avid reading of neuroscience literature to paint a vivid picture of what the Feldenkrais Method looks like inside our student's brains!
Joe, Jane and Seth
