Welcome to The Feldenkrais Institute of NY

This Video Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method, excerpted from the DVD Movement Nature Meant by Feldenkrais Trainer Ruthy Alon, demonstrates the marvelous and supple flexibility that can be attained using Feldenkrais. Movement Nature Meant is available from the Feldenkrais Institute.
2008 WEEKLY CLASSES: Your first class is FREE. Class times are ongoing.

Mondays: 2:00 pm, "Bones for Life, A Class for the Elder Citizen", with Sarah Daskal
Mondays: 6:00 pm, "Intelligent Flexibility", with Anat Meiri
Tuesdays: 12:30 pm, "Freeing the Jaw, Neck & Shoulders " with Andrew Gibbons
Tuesdays: 5:30 pm , "Rise Up! Revolutionary Lessons for the Feet & Legs " with Tessa Chandler
Wednesdays: 6:00 pm, "The Pelvis is the Largest Vertebra of Your Neck " with Anna Johnson Chase
Wednesdays: 7:15 pm, "Advanced Feldenkrais" with various staff
Thurdays: 12:30 pm, "Integrating the Ribs, Shoulders and Hips" with Andrew Gibbons
Thurdays: 6:30 pm, "Finding Freedom in the Hips and Lower Back " with Mark Hirschfield
Fridays: 12:30 pm, "Feldenkrais for Musicians: Improving the Back & Arms" (non-musicians welcome) with Andrew Gibbons
Thurdays: 6:30 pm, "Finding Freedom in the Hips and Lower Back " with Mark Hirschfield
Fridays: 5:30 pm, "Feldenkrais for Beginners " with Anat Meiri
Saturdays: 5:30 pm , "Expanding the Self Image: Feldenkrais for Performing Artists (non-performers welcome) with Tessa Chandler

EVENING WORKSHOPS: 6:30 - 9:30 pm, $35 in advance, $40 at the door (unless otherwise noted).

Bones for Life, the Complete Program, with Deborah Lotus & Marcia Guidice (3 segments, Fri-Sun: April 11-13, May 2-4, May 30 - June 1)
Advanced Functional Integration: Work with the Spine, Pt. 2 with David Zemach-Bersin (April 25-27)
Perspectives on Self Organization with Jeff Haller (June 6-8)
Standing on Your Own Two Feet with Carl Ginsburg & Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg (Aug 8-11)
Integration vs. Differentiation with Ruthy Alon (Oct 31 - Nov 3)

Read the BACKSTAGE Magazine interview with David Zemach-Bersin, "Practicing the Feldenkrais Method".
Read the NY Times article on Dr. Norman Doidge's new book on neuroplasticity: "The Brain That Changes Itself" (book website)
Dr. Doidge's article on The Feldenkrais Method
Read our latest Press Release (.pdf) about our public classes & free public evenings.
Some Videos of Interest

Watch the new video produced by the FELDENKRAIS Educational Foundation of North America
Theory of Brains: To date, there hasn't been an overarching theory of how the human brain really works, Jeff Hawkins argues in this compelling talk. That's because we still haven't defined intelligence accurately. But one thing's for sure, he says: The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh (see the video) asks whether uniquely human traits, and other animals' behaviors, are hardwired by species. Then she rolls a video that makes you think: maybe not. The bonobo apes she works with understand spoken English. One follows her instructions to take a cigarette lighter from her pocket and use it to start a fire. Bonobos are shown making tools, drawing symbols to communicate, and playing Pac-Man -- all tasks learned just by watching. Maybe it's not always biology that causes a species to act as it does, she suggests. Maybe it's cultural exposure to how things are done.

"Exercise Method Puts Therapy in Motion", TheStreet.com, by Penelope Dane (July 5, 2007)
NY Yankees' Alex Rodriguez: "Finding the Sweet Spot in a Hall of Fame Swing". Read how Alex Rodriguez changed the use of his head & eyes during his swing and improved his swing (Apr. 23rd, 2007)
Newsweek Cover Story "Exercise and the Brain"
Fitness Magazine publishes Feldenkrais exercises. "Sit Back & Relax " (p. 29, April '07 issue. Exercises provided by the Feldenkrais Institute of NY)