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Physicist

Moshe Feldenkrais was a physicist and pioneer in the field of human potential development. Known for his development of the Feldenkrais Method, a non-invasive body movement technique aimed at improving bodily function through increased body awareness and movement ability. Born on May 6, 1904, he passed away on July 1, 1984.

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“Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.”

Life Body Muscles

Author: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.”

Thinking Mind Believe Whole Body Reality I Believe Brain Unity Objectives Related Mind And Body Inseparable Objective Reality

Book:Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais

Source: Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of 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.”

People Want May Persons Body Moving Purpose Choices Individual Emotion Creativity Creatures Reflection Patterns Tension Behaviour Habitual Inhibitions Free Choice

Author:Moshe Feldenkrais

“A brain without a body could not think.”

Thinking Body Brain

Book:Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais

Source: Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais

“We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.”

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Author:Moshe Feldenkrais

About the Author

Born: May 6, 1904
Died: July 1, 1984
Known for: Physicist
Quotes: 19

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