Links and Downloads
Articles
Claire Freeman, A New Way to Learn to Move, Spinal Network News, April 2008
Dr Carl Ginsburg, The Shake-A-Leg Body Awareness Training Program: Dealing with Spinal Injury and Recovery in a New Setting, Somatics, Spring/Summer, 1986, 31-42
Dr Andrew Weil, The Feldenkrais Method: Moving with Ease, Dr Andrew Weil’s Self Healing, May 1998
Dr Norman Doidge, New hope for aching, creaky yuppie bodies, National Post, October 6, 1999
Case studies with spinal cord injury
Michael
Suki & Lorie
Lisa
Amanda
“Walk with Me” is the autobiography of Kevin Hitchcock who broke his neck at C3/4. Despite being told he would never get feeling below the neck or walk again, he ended up walking and restoring arm and hand function. (Hitchcock, K. (1998) Walk with Me. Australia: Random House.) This is also available on loan from the Allan Bean Centre Library at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch
Films
Moment by Moment: the Healing Journey of Molly Hale
This is a documentary film that tells the story of the first seven years after Molly broke her neck in 1995. To begin with she has been given the prognosis that there would be no movement below her shoulders. With a combination of practices including Aquatic Therapy, Aikido, Feldenkrais, Continuum, Hippotherapy, Meditation and breath work , Molly makes significant improvements. She is now able to walk supported in water and, 13 years on, continues to improve.
What is the Feldenkrais Method?
In this Feldenkrais video, students of the method describe how it has enriched and changed their lives.
Healing Quest: Feldenkrais Achieves What Medicine Could Not
A baby born 20 years ago without a third of her cerebellum was given a grim prognosis by medical doctors - she could never walk or talk. Now the young woman enjoys a nearly normal life and is a college student. She and her family attribute her amazing recovery to Feldenkrais.
More Testimonials
Testimonials from scientists and health professionals.
Testimonials from clients of the Feldenkrais® Method
Further information
Improving Sensory Motor Function after a Spinal Cord Injury is a 32 page booklet on Feldenkrais and spinal cord injuries.
Restoring proprioception, kinaesthesia and co-ordinated movement with the Feldenkrais Method of sensory motor education. Poster presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian & New Zealand Spinal Cord Society, November 2008.
Feldenkrais Research and Case Studies gives a summary of some of the research and case studies done with the Feldenkrais® method. Links to some of the articles are provided within this document.
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