Moshe Feldenkrais, the behind the Feldenkrais Method in the 1940s, understood how movement is based on habits developed since infancy. He realised that changing unhelpful habits in adulthood can only be achieved by paying attention, engaging – or engaging neuroplasticity as it came to be known – years before mainstream science. In this article written for the UK Feldenkrais Guild, I investigate the links between Moshe Feldenkrais and a leading French philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
As a medical and science writer, Jane Feinmann has contributed to most national newspapers and several journals and magazines. She has won prizes for articles written for the BMJ, Daily Mail Health Pages, Independent, Wellcome Foundation.
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