To follow up with the initial post on the home page about Sascha Krausneker from 2018: There are multiple accusations against Sascha Krausneker. Multiple, detailed accusations against him, accusing him of sexual coercion, violence, and harassment towards a Feldenkrais student and a Feldenkrais practitioner. There are multiple, credible second-person accounts of the abuse. There was…
Read More →I just noticed a mention of Feldenkrais on a report called, “A Christian reflection on the “New Age.” posted on the Vatican website here. The report does nothing more than lump Feldenkrais in with other approaches but it is interesting to read the full report. They Vatican scholars (whoever they might be) do seem to…
Read More →*draft* Take a look at the various posts in this website to get a sense of how widespread sexual harassment, rape and bullying may be in the Feldenkrais Guild training community. Then take a moment to realize that the abuse allegations go back to events at the Amherst training in 1981 and span nearly a…
Read More →Proud to announce this recently found and digitally remastered photo of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais with his favorite monkey: Jerome Karzen. Enjoy! You can find more about Moshe’s Monkey at his website: https://jerrykarzen.com/
Read More →The link to the letter below by Jack Heggie was originally posted on SomaSimple.com. It was sent to me by a reader. Thank you. Jack Heggie passed away, reportedly by suicide. Ryan Nagy talks about the apparent suicide (years apart) of Jack Heggie and Martin Weiner in this blog post (click). Jack’s letter below gets…
Read More →Here is the great Moshe Feldenkrais teaching at the San Francisco training on June 30, 1977. And attacking and criticizing other methods. Feldenkrais is better than everything…including meditation. Feldenkrais: Meditation is a drug for idiots “…doing, moving, and acting is better than meditating. If you meditate, it is only if you act wrongly that the…
Read More →Toxic Feldenkrais Quotes: Moshe and his use of the word, “idiot” and “idiotic.” “…it is you who is a nasty idiot.” – June, 22nd 1977, SF Training Could you imagine being in training program with Moshe Feldenkrais and having him scream at you and kick you and repeatedly call you and your fellow students “idiots”…
Read More →“I went to Dr. Wildman’s apartment over in south east Eugene near campus. I arrived and walked up the stairs to his door. When he answered he was completely nude. I had gathered that he was a nudist and tried to respect his personal choice as he was in his own home space. I ignored…
Read More →The Feldenkrais Guild of North America has an ethics policy. But they do not say who is on their ethics board. If you have an ethics complaint against a Feldenkrais Trainer, you are invited to contact the board via email or snail mail. But they do not tell you who is on the board: Inquiries…
Read More →Jeff Haller, has a YouTube video called, “Moving Towards Emotional Dignity.” I like Jeff as a Feldenkrais teacher and have experienced one of his advanced workshops. It was brilliant. However, listening to the video below, gave me the creeps. Jeff simply repeats – adnauseam – buzzwords from the popular culture. Feldenkrais helps you move towards…
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