“Free your mind and the rest will follow” ~En Vogue What does it mean to be free? Or maybe more importantly, how do you become free? Mankind has thought, fought and died trying to find the answer. Perhaps, freedom is simply the ability to create more choices for yourself. Moshe Feldenkrais was much more interested in flexible minds than flexible bodies. A flexible body just has more range of motion in what it can already do. A flexible mind is free to discover and explore new interests...

Absence of effort doesn’t mean weakness or doing nothing. It means your muscles are perfectly coordinated, with no wasted energy, tension, or muscles fighting against one another. ~Moshe Feldenkrais Olympic champion weightlifter, Tommy Kono once said that at his best, he did not feel the weight unit he held it over his head. Kono’s technique was so good that his musculature’s distribution of work resulted in effortless lift. Tommy made very heavy weights look easy to snatch and...

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” ~ Helen Keller S3NSE is a story of a group of Feldenkrais® practitioners working together to create a stronger practice. The seeds of S3NSE were planted by Beth Sidlow Mann. Beth was the South Bay Feldenkrais Johny Appleseed. She started programs in quite a few schools, community and senior centers. Beth, a longtime Guild representative and Feldenkrais Trainer, somehow found the time to create study groups for her fellow...