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What you get: Each set is five lessons for $49 unless otherwise indicated. Buy two or more and get 20% off with code MORE. These are high-quality studio recordings, not class recordings with background noise.
Tech note: These are delivered in a zip file. You have to download and open it to access the recordings. To play audio files, I like the VLC media player, available for windows or Mac.
New to Feldenkrais? Read how to do a lesson.
Human movement overview
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An overview of basic human movements: Rotate, round and arch, side bend, breathe, and roll. I come back to these again and again for a flexible spine and upright posture.
$49
This series covers all aspects of human movement, similar to the Human Movement Starter Kit, but in a chair. You will twist, fold, and breathe, highlighting movements in the eyes, ankles, face, pelvis, hips, and more. While challenging old patterns, these are gentle and slow. You can do them any time you have a short break.
Eleven 20-minute lessons
$49
Life-changing lessons to soften the whole back! All of these require a rolled blanket or towel. I return to these again and again, and once you’ve done them, you can just take a piece of it to repeat to stay flexible.
Four lessons
$39
A beautiful introduction to the Feldenkrais Method® from Mia Segal and Gaby Yaron, two of Moshe’s first students. These are often touted as “beginning” lessons for both teachers and students, however they are as sophisticated as any of the complex AY or Esalen lessons.
Twenty lessons, $65
A 79-page PDF of these lessons in a convenient table format with three columns: Position, movement, sensory feedback.
79 pages, $39
Calm and de-stress with easy breathing and mobile ribs
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Use these to cut across rumination in your thinking as well as tension in your belly. Help the diaphragm regulate outside of emotional and physical stressors. Plus, the tapping and breathing is incredibly soothing.
$49
These are beautiful lessons to restore flexibility to stiff ribs. You’d be surprised how much the ribs have to do with walking and upright sitting. Stiff ribs stop us from doing so much in life with ease. I always feel more spacious after doing these lessons.
$49
Everything about letting go: One lesson on rolling the spine and three on moving the diaphragm as you vary the volume of the chest and belly (seesaw breathing), one on how take a natural breath. These are designed to help you get out of your own way.
$49
My favorite breathing lessons. It’s so useful to let go of long-held patterns in the habitual organization of the breath. As you challenge how muscles shape the chest and abdomen, the diaphragm has more space to respond to life.
$49
Release tension with a series of soothing, gentle movements in the spine, eyes, jaw, and breath. Return to a parasympathetic state and let go of the fight-or-flight response of stress and anxiety. Your nervous system is smart, let it help you.
$49
Easy eyes, neck, and jaw
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Get help for the vision and the actual eye muscles. One lesson is on focal distance, which we all need after working at a computer. While these lessons can be intense, they are also calming because any tension in the eyes is tension throughout the whole system.
$49
Eye lessons are critical for balance, vision, and relieving neck strain. Neck lessons unwind tension in the neck, head, and along the back, as well as improve balance and decrease fatigue.
$49
Jaw lessons help with TMJ issues, breathing, tension in the chest, the back of the neck, and upper back.
$49
Free your hips
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Two slow, gentle lessons and three that ask for a major reorganization of the low back and hips. Once you solve this movement puzzle, your hips will thank you!
$49
Two sets: Lengthening through hips (three lessons) and reaching like a skeleton (four lessons). Both of these are amazing for connecting the arms and legs into the back. Good for the shoulders, upper back, low back, and upright posture. Plus, they’re super fun!
Seven lessons total
$56
Use these for fluid, rolling hips. Relearn how the legs connect to center of the back for maximum power and efficiency.
$49
Five slow, yummy lessons to create movement through the hips into the back.
$49
Spine, low back, and upright sitting
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Lessons to lengthen and soften the spine as you let go of tension. Use these for an upright back and easy posture.
$49
Gentle rotation and swiveling creates ease in the hips, low back, and pelvis.
$49
Swiveling your hips means a fluid, mobile pelvis. Use these for better walking, skiing, horseback riding, cycling, and more.
$49
Learn to balance the muscles in front and in back. I taught these in my June, 2022, ATM intensive. With practice, your spine will be flexible and you will not be over- or under-using your muscles. Sitting will be easy, effortless, and pain-free.
Eight lessons
$64
A powerful reorganization of the muscles in the back. Rediscover your natural skeletal support by clarifying how the muscles move the bones and the bones hold you up.
Eight lessons
$64
I developed “Zoe’s Tips and Tricks” as short sequences to do when you don’t have much time and feel crunchy in the back, neck, or shoulders. Seven of these are done in a chair (even at your desk!) and three are on the floor.
Ten short tips, 4-14 minutes
$35
Accessing the back muscles is vital for health. This is a good starting place for retraining the back. Often we feel weak and believe we need to contract even more, but really we’re just wasting our power on incorrect contractions. Here, you learn to redistribute the work. I love these lessons. I feel flexible, tall, and powerful when I do them.
$49
Five brilliant, flattening-out lessons to relieve back tension. Moshe Feldenkrais called this movement “jelly pudding.” It means a lot of jiggling. Very precise, clear jiggling, but still jiggling. If you want to feel more upright and balanced without a crunchy, contracted back, this series is your new best friend.
$49
Effortless posture means the muscles stop doing the job of the bones. For these lessons, you’ll need a rolled towel in a tube. Let go of tension in the low back, neck, shoulders, and hips.
$49
Feet and ankles
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The feet and ankles are vital for balance, reducing neck pain (if your feet aren’t adaptable, the neck muscles grip the head) and, believe it or not, your low back and hips.
$49
Repatterning the muscles in the feet and ankles is vital for balance, posture, adaptability, and breathing. When you trust your feet, life gets easier. Plus, flexible ankles equal a flexible low back. Don’t listen to me, test it for yourself.
$49
More on multiple ways to fold, bend, and integrate the feet into the use of the whole self. If you practice these, your hips and legs, balance and walking will all improve.
$49
Hands, arms, and shoulders
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Beautiful lessons to reduce strain in the fingers, forearms, and shoulders. A couple lessons to connect the arms to the center of the back, and three on softening fingers and wrists.
$49
I give these lessons to all my clients who have shoulder issues and/or knots in the upper back. Go slowly without stretching and reorganizing the pattern will save you.
Nine lessons
$64
Good lessons for the knots in the upper back as you move shoulders around the ribs so they’re not so stuck. Here is one good lesson for the neck, one for the shoulders, and three on sliding the arms and shoulders to help the whole upper back.
$49
Unwind tension in the shoulders as you restore the connection between the arms, upper back, and shoulders.
$49
Activities: Walk, run, ski, cycle, swim
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Use these to challenge the the hip joints, spinal rotation, back muscles, and more. Designed to access the full range of motion by connecting all the patterns in your back and hips, these lessons are gentle, even if they seem like a puzzle. The trick is to find lightness and ease as you strategize to shift the entire musculoskeletal system.
$49
Lessons to connect the legs to the back through the ankles, knees, and hips. Plus, one on swiveling the pelvis and other to challenge the back to allow maximum movement in the legs. I’ve worked with a lot of cyclists in my practice and using the whole self in an integrated way is vital for efficient movement.
$49
Find out how the trunk powers the legs. As you bend, fold, and swivel in the trunk, the legs become simultaneously lighter and more powerful.
$49
Many lessons in Feldenkrais are helpful for walking, but they are done lying down. These are done actually walking around. They are slow, detailed observations of your hips, ribs, neck, and weight shifts. They are very, very helpful, especially the neck one. But they are not fast.
Four lessons
$39
Humans walk on the diagonal, we do not lurch side to side. Clarifying the diagonals through the trunk creates swingy, smooth, light movement. Two are puzzle lessons because they challenge your brain, and three are activating the back to connect your limbs.
$49
If the skeleton is imprecise, it requires extra muscular effort to find support from the ground. True power is elegant, smooth, effective, and, most of all, clear. Activate an efficient organization of the trunk to move the legs.
$49
Such amazingly powerful, beautiful lessons as you swivel the arms and activate the power of the trunk. You will wake up new patterns that will serve you for years.
$49
New patterns to explore
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Here you begin to roll the pelvis over the hips. There’s no stretching, just many ways to rotate the pelvis and lengthen the legs. You begin to shift your weight in relation to the turning, feeling how you use the back muscles to activate the trunk. These lessons are an experiment in endless improvement, whether you “do” the splits or not.
Four lessons
$39
Most of us have no idea how to use the head as a “fifth limb.” As you discover where the top of the head actually is, your confidence grows. With lots of swinging the legs and rolling up the spine, you become more supple and balanced along your back. You can greatly improve the force through the bones, without injury or pain, and whether you do a headstand or not.
Seven lessons
$56
The five lines are a fundamental aspect of Moshe's work. He considers it the basis for all underlying movement patterns. Here you learn to sense the lines as a touchstone, or a reference point, for your own orientation and movement through space, providing a wonderful, deep awakening of self-awareness and clarity.
Six lessons plus commentary
$49
The four points lessons are about balance, locomotion, and orientation. I would say they are about confidence.
Four lessons
$39
I still remember the first time I did these lessons and the tremendous improvement in turning I had. It was one of those, “Oh, I can do that?” moments. It highlights all the self-imposed limitations we put on ourselves, and how much more function there is in our ribs, upper back, and neck. (Known as the “dead bird” series.)
Four lessons
$39
Here is the iconic judo roll series where you roll safely forwards and back and up to stand, like a diagonal somersault. Only after you practice softening the back and moving the head safely out of the way.
Seven lessons
$56
About these lessons
These lessons are not about fixing or correcting your movement. Rather, they help you refine your ability to experiment. That way, your sensory skill is vastly improved and you never have to stay stuck in old habits.
Although these lessons are loosely categorized into musculoskeletal effects, any specific effect will vary from person to person. Results are dependent on individual self-use, habits, the attitude you bring, and personal history.
Unlike muscle exercise or workouts, these are invitations to unwind old patterns. They do not ask for mechanical repetition, but they do ask for a curious attitude toward new possibilities.
You may or may not know that Feldenkrais is based on Judo. Dr. Feldenkrais trained in Paris as an electrical engineer and then spent decades practicing Judo before he developed his method. He was keen to discover how humans can most efficiently relate to gravity.
Consider these practices as a re-training of your relationship to gravity.
Like any training in physical or mental health, results take commitment and time. I often tell my clients to give this experiment a solid six-month investment and then see how far you've come.
Enjoy!
People are saying...
“I have been practicing Feldenkrais for nearly eight years. I have found it incredibly helpful in becoming more aware of how I move. Zoe is an exceptional guide to giving Feldenkrais lessons. Her knowledge is profound and she shares it with ease and humor. I feel blessed to have her in my life.”
“I love the clarity of Zoe’s lessons, her voice, the tempo, the messages she puts in between the instructions that help me grow. Zoe has experience, clarity, and gentleness. She teaches Feldenkrais as easily as breathing. I pick up how much Feldenkrais means to her, and that gives her lessons extra meaning to me.”
“The beauty of Zoe’s work is that she creates the perfect environment for you to choose to transform yourself, and she does it exquisitely. She primes all her students to take hold of their own transformation. ”
“I have been doing Feldenkrais for 43 years, starting with the original group of Feldenkrais teachers in Israel. I love this method because with subtle movements you get great results. I have been with Zoe for five years, and she is as good as the original teachers in Israel. She is deep and very knowledgeable, and the lessons always feel new. I recommend her wholeheartedly!”