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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 throughoutthe lesson will change and be refined by the addition of information of 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.
This is our first approximation of our means to provide products to assist our visitors in their efforts to enhance their lives in various ways.

We have become associates of Amazon.com, which means that if there is a book on our recommendation list that interests you, you can order it from Amazon.com right from this site.

Here are a number of books that we feel are very helpful under several headings. You can click on the blue title of a recommended book to get more details and, if you wish to, order it from Amazon.com. Or, if your curiousity is piqued, and you wish to explore on your own, you may use the search boxes provided. Either way, if you order your books through this site, we will receive a commission from Amazon.com.


The Feldenkrais Method®


Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness ,Feldenkrais, Moshe


Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation, and Learning, Feldenkrais, Moshe


The Case of Nora; Body Awareness As Healing Therapy, Feldenkrais, Moshe


The Elusive Obvious or Basic Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais, Moshe


The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion, 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: The Easy New Way to Health and Fitness, 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 lessons in 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 tangentially 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 Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

The Island of the Colorblind

A Leg to Stand On

Seeing Voices

 

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Humor:

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot



--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!


 


 



The New Yorker Book of Doctor Cartoons


 


...Need I say more?


 


 

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...

 


 


 


 


Illness and the Art of Creative Self-Expression

 


 


 


 


The Healing Power of Humor



 


 


Medicine:


 


The Scalpel and the Silver Bear


 


 


 

 


The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey


 


 


 

 

The Lost Art of Healing


 


 


 


 


A Not Entirely Benign Procedure


 


 


 


 


 


The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

 


 


 


 


 


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