Moshe Feldenkrais was a remarkable person: footballer, judoka, scientist, and above all a researcher of human movement. He was born in 1904, lived a life full of curiosity and experimentation, and developed a method that still helps people worldwide move with greater ease and freedom.

He first worked as a construction worker in Palestine. There, he developed a self-defense method for Jewish pioneers, based on efficient movement and intelligent use of force. Later, in France, he encountered judo, which uses similar principles. He became the first European to earn a black belt in judo.

Only after serious injuries to both knees did the real research begin that would later become known as the Feldenkrais Method. Because doctors saw little hope, he wanted to understand what was possible within his own movement abilities. He studied physics, neurophysiology, anatomy, and Eastern movement principles, and applied everything to his own recovery.

He discovered that the way the brain organizes movement can be influenced. That new patterns can be learned, old ones released, and that the body responds surprisingly quickly when it experiences safety and variation.

Thousands of people learned through his lessons how pain or limitation could be transformed into ease, clarity, and freedom of movement.

The foundation of his work is simple and profound at the same time: you learn through experience.
Not by training harder, but by moving with attention.