Quotes
"Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable" (Moshe Feldenkrais)
Moshe Feldenkrais
"The aim [of the Feldenkrais Method] is a person that is organized to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular strength, but through increased consciousness of how movement works"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"The only thing permanent about our behaviour patterns is our belief that they are so"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"Through awareness, we can learn to move with astonishing lightness and freedom at almost any age"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"We do not achieve ... by repetition, muscle exercising, or by increasing speed and force, but by widening and refining the cerebral control of the muscle range"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"What I'm after isn't flexible bodies, but flexible brains "
Moshe Feldenkrais
"To make the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant "
Moshe Feldenkrais
"No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us. "
Moshe Feldenkrais
"Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"What I understand by maturity, is the capacity of the individual to break up total situations of previous experience into parts, to reform them into a pattern most suitable to the present circumstance, i.e., the conscious control effectively becomes the over-riding servo-mechanism of the nervous system"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"Recognising our insignificance, the unimportance of what we think, do, or cannot do, we find ourselves in full mastery of ourselves to the potential limit of our ability. That sort of unstable equilibrium that is abandoned in each action and recovered for the next is the essence of human maturity"
Moshe Feldenkrais
"My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants"