The Feldenkrais® Legacy Forum
The Mission of Feldenkrais Legacy Forum is to promote the integrity, evolution, and sustainability of the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education for future generations.
The Feldenkrais® Legacy Forum is a grassroots group of Feldenkrais Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioners (CM) who are committed to ensuring the future of Moshe Feldenkrais’ legacy. We are not an official policy-making or certification body.
We gather ideas and support the creation of initiatives and projects. These include development of the method’s relevance in a changing world; gathering ideas and suggestions to broaden the appeal of Feldenkrais education; and outreach through the expansion of professional dialogue skills.
Current Areas of Interest Include:
- Broadening Ideas of Feldenkrais Education
- Professional Dialogue
- Expansion & Diversification
- Practitioner Support: Collaborative Learning
- Practitioner Support: Competency Profiles for Practitioner Excellence
Participants of these groups are members from all spectrums of the Feldenkrais community. Communication and decision making are based on the principles of respect and the importance of all voices being heard. Anyone willing to work is welcome to join a group.
“A motor skill is not a movement formula and certainly not a formula of permanent muscle forces imprinted in some motor center. Motor skill is an ability to solve one or another type of motor problem…. The most sensible and correct training would be organized in a way that combined a minimization of effort with a large variety of well-designed sensations and that created optimal conditions for meaningfully absorbing and memorizing all these sensations.… therefore, 'correct' exercise is in fact a repetition without repetition.”
- Nicholai A. Bernstein 1896-1966, quoted in Moshe Feldenkrais: A Life in Movement by Mark Reese, 2015, pg 183.
The following are service marks, trademarks, collective, or certification marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America in the US: Feldenkrais Guild®, Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Functional Integration®, FI®, Awareness Through Movement®, ATM®, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher®, GCFTCM, Guild Certified Feldenkrais PractitionerCM, GCFPCM, Certified Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement TeacherCM, CFATMTCM, Feldenkrais JournalTM, Friends of FeldenkraisSM, and FGNA Feldenkrais Method Logo.
The following are service marks, trademarks, or certification marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America in Canada: Feldenkrais GuildTM, Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais® Method or Feldenkrais MethodTM, Awareness Through Movement®, ATMTM, Prise de conscience par le mouvementMD, Functional Integration®, FITM, L'intégration fonctionnelleMD, Guild Certified Feldenkrais TeacherTM , GCFTTM, Guild Certified Feldenkrais PractitionerTM, GCFPTM, Certified Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement TeacherTM, CFATMTTM, Friends of FeldenkraisSM , Feldenkrais JournalTM, and FGNA Feldenkrais Method Logo