Who We Are

 

 

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 FLF is a self-formed group of practitioners exploring ways of bringing this work into the world. We gather ideas and cultivate projects. These include development of the method’s social relevance in a changing world; transformation of Feldenkrais educational models; outreach through the expansion of professional dialogue skills; and support of research on the fundamental principles and practice of our method.

The Legacy Forum began in 2015 and has been supported as a project of the Feldenkrais Educational of North America® (FEFNA) under their mission:

The Feldenkrais® Educational Foundation of North America (FEFNA) supports and promotes advancing the Legacy of the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education through research, education, and public awareness.

Current Working Groups Include:

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.