Feldenkrais® Center of Nevada County

Michael Purcell and Allison Rapp
Grass Valley, California

Moshe Feldenkrais
in his own words

Every word I use has a particular meaning. When I say that we "learn," I mean that we eliminate all the unnecessary, parasitic movement that everybody performs in doing the thing he wants to do. He wants one thing, and he gets a parasitic movement instead.

The whole body is destroyed by parasitic movement, because the energy wasted is turned into heat and it ruins the joints.

Berkeley Workshop, 1973, in a lesson on Breathing

...this is the important point to keep in mind: namely, that intelligence is a way of functioning, and nothing else.

The Potent Self, page 1

Faulty posture can always be traced to those factors that cause increased emotional tone. This happens every time we perceive a body tension, and the means to release it are not available. Bad posture is the externally observable physical counterpart of internal conflict or contradiction.

The Potent Self, page 54