In this episode, my Feldenkrais Teacher Training classmate Cyndi shared her touching story. Her experience perfectly exemplifies how the methodology of Feldenkrais provides safety, joy, and freedom to someone who experiences debilitating chronic pain.

Below are some topics we discussed:

• the struggle of debilitating pain working as a physio
• Feldenkrais lessons: a way to be able to feel safe in my body
• the more I want to protect, the more I contract, the more pain I feel
• learn from what works, not what’s the problem — a new way to reduce pain
• can’t reach the performance goal? do less and go to sleep.
• just sense! Even pure imagination can cause big changes
• I know the anatomy from an external view but my internal sense is a black hole
• goal-oriented v.s. non-judgment
• breathing behavior analysis as another self-regulation technique
• a demo on exploring Zhiwei’s breathing habit: comfort and pleasure is the way to learn

I'm Zhiwei, a guild-certified Feldenkrais ATM teacher. Find me at movefreeli.org