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In the Feldenkrais Method we speak of successive performance of the movements in a lesson as "approximations", that is, the movement throughout the lesson will change and be refined by the addition of informationof various kinds. Thus, the movement will go through various approximations throughout the lesson and, in fact every time the lesson is done. Improvement is always possible.
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The Feldenkrais Method
Awareness Through
Movement:HealthExercises for Personal Growth
Feldenkrais, Moshe
The Body and Mature Behavior:A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning
Feldenkrais, Moshe
This title is currently out of print and not available through any of the sources mentioned. Second hand or used bookstores might such as Alibris (online) might be able to help.
Feldenkrais, Moshe
Feldenkrais, Moshe
The Potent Self: A Guide to Spontaneity
Feldenkrais, Moshe
Of this list, the most readable are The Elusive Obvious
which describes
the influences and thinking which inform the Feldenkrais Method®
as a whole and The Case of Nora, which is a description
of Moshe's individual and hands-on work with a woman who had
suffered a stroke and its aftereffect.
Awareness Through Movement is a description
of the verbally
guided aspect of the method which is known by that name. It includes
some sample lessons.
All of the above titles are also available through the Feldenkrais
Guild of North America. Some of them are out of print
or hard to find in other venues.
Relaxercise, Reese,Mark, David Zemach-Bersin
This book has some classic Feldenkrais® lessons set up
in an "exercise" format
which is easy to follow. The instructions are clear and give
a good idea of the structure of Awareness Through Movement®
lessons and would be a good adjunct and /or introduction to lessonsin
a class. This book and the tape series by the same title may
be obtained through Feldenkrais
Resources
Running with the Whole Body: a 30-Day Program to Running Faster,With Less Effort by Jack Heggie, Donna Homberger (Photographer)
This Feldenkrais Practitioner has written a useful guide for runners which will improve performance (in walking, too!) and which demonstrates how the Feldenkrais Method® can be applied to a specific activity.
The above titles may be obtained through the sources noted. Some are also available at Amazon.com.
Here are some books which are not about the Feldenkrais
Method® but which are
related via philosophy or approach.
The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language and Human Culture
by Frank R. Wilson
Oliver Sacks
The
Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
An
Anthroplolgist on Mars: SevenParadoxical Tales
The
Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island
A
Leg To Stand On
Seeing
Voices
Touching
the Rock: An Experience of Blindness
by Oliver Sacks and John Hull
Humor
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
by John Callahan
-A palate cleanser if you've been reading too much in the
super-positive,
sweetness and light mode. Callahan's autobiography done via cartoons
and text is a refreshing,irreverent, honest,funny look at alcoholism,
disability, rehabilitation and recovery.<
More from John Callahan:
Will The Real John Callahan Please Stand Up
This one was co-written
with Robin Williams, so be ready for true mania!
The
Night, They Say, Was Made for Love:..
....A raunchy cartoon study of sex...not for the too easily offended!
Below is another Callahan
cartoon collection but there is no cover image available, classic
Callahan!
Need I say more?
The New Yorker Book of Doctor Cartoons...
...just because...
If you need validation
of the place of humor in medicine, healing and recovery,or just
want to smile....
Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, Society...
by Patch Adams, Maureen Mylander(Contributor), Matthew Budd
Illness
and the Art of Creative Self Expression
Medicine:
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey...
A Not Entirely Benign Procedure:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Service Dogs
by Elise Lufkin, Peter Mayle
