An article with this title was published in the Sydney Morning Herald 11 December 2003.
It quotes Frank Wildman who was the Educational Director of my training program.
“The work is about learning,” he says. “It’s about how to change fundamental habits and how to reinstitute new habits without going through rote or repetition; without having to be punished until you do it; without having to experience anxiety or the fear of failure as your motivation, but by working through movements that are expansive enough, novel enough, and that are really original.”
By “habits” Wildman is talking, among other things, about our posture, balance, the way we move and have learnt to move over the course of our lives.
Instead of treating painful backs, necks and shoulders in more conventional ways, Feldenkrais lessons work on changing the habitual patterns that underlie a problem.
