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3 Goals of the Feldenkrais Method

On this episode I want to talk about this framework: the 3 goals of the Feldenkrais Method. These are interrelated goals. Each one makes the others possible. I hope by...

How does the Feldenkrais Method Help Seniors - Radio Interview on WJON

This episode presents my interview with Kelly Cordes of Central Minnesota's WJON radio station. I talk to with her about what is the Feldenkrais Method, it's benefits ...

Why Movement? Improve Your Self-Value

The Feldenkrais Method is a way to improve your own sense of self-value in your. The way in which you value yourself by your own standards, and less and less by the st...

Jenny Frank-Doggett - Feldenkrais® and Mental Health

When Jenny Frank-Doggett incorporates Feldenkrais® into her therapy sessions, she finds it helps her clients to feel better. She means 'feel better' in two meanings. T...

Don't Touch Your Face! An Anatomy of a Story

I've used the term story many times on this podcast. Stories are what we've learned about ourselves, beliefs about how we should act. Stories are the way our past cont...

Sarah Baumert - Yoga, Feldenkrais and Finding Freedom In Your Body

As a curious child, Sarah Baumert, experimented with the yoga postures she found in a book. She found joy in how the postures stimulated intense energy or offered calm...

Embrace Your Creativity with the Feldenkrais Method

For over a decade I have done video editing. So often by the end of a work session I would walk away feeling cranky or prickly. While creating the videos I was also cr...

Why Movement? Movement is Richer than Feeling and Thought

"We all have more experience of movement, and more capacity for it, than of feeling and thought," says Moshe Feldenkrais in his 3rd argument for Why Movement as a basi...

Reframing Being "Too Sensitive" and a Technique to Settle Down

Have you ever been called "too sensitive"? I have and I don't like it. It's not helpful and I think it misses the point.In this episode, I reframe sensitivity. Sensiti...

Jeff Haller - Transcend Your History

My guest this week is Jeff Haller, a 40 year veteran Feldenkrais practitioner and trainer of other practitioners.Jeff Haller chose the Feldenkrais Method over many oth...

A Case of Unbridled Rage

When big emotions sweep through you, what do you do? How do you handle them?Big emotions like rage can lead us to destroying the relationships that are important to us...

Why Movement? You Can Discern Quality More Easily

Discerning quality is essential to living life with choice and satisfaction.You do this already when you turn off that Netflix show because it's just not good. Boring!...

Declutter Your House of Habits

It's springtime! Yay! Get those windows open and bring in the light. Oh boy, there's a lot of work to do.  We really did let ourselves go during the wintery months.😅 T...

Alice Boyd - Taken Apart and Put Back Together

Well, that was a waste of time.That was Alice's first experience of the Feldenkrais Method 25 years ago. Little did she know she would come to love it and produce a mo...

Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method(!)

There is the common list of benefits about the Feldenkrais Method: people get from lessons saying they feel taller, more grounded, lighter, more graceful, easier movem...

Why Movement? Your Body Won't Let You Fall

Put aside your self-help books. Step away for a moment from the your therapy session. Consider movement as a key ingredient you've been missing.In a world that's so fo...

Awareness Through Movement: What you need to know to get started

When your friend says they are going to go do an ATM, do you look at them perplexed?I guarantee you they are not grabbing money from a machine. 💸💸ATM is the short hand...

What's In Your Self-Image? and What You Can Do About It

"We act in accordance with our self-image." Moshe Feldenkrais opens his book Awareness Through Movement with this line. He then says the self-image "governs our every ...

How You Do One Thing is ...

Do you find yourself getting after it at work, focusing hard to make this Friday's deadline but you don't really know how to turn it off this urgency when you get home...

Introduction to the Podcast

Welcome! In this first episode I will talk about: who I am and my backgroundWhat is the Feldenkrais Methodthe goals of this podcast.+++++Hi, I’m Jeffrey. I am a Certif...

Welcome to The Expand Your Ability Podcast

Welcome to the Expand Your Ability Podcast. I'm your host, Jeffrey Schwinghammer. This show delves into the nuanced interplay of body, mind, emotions, power, and choic...

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