I no longer need someone else (for example chiropractor, osteopath, remedial masseur) to alleviate any back pain. I can do it myself now that I have become aware of the movements which will help.

We do not achieve ... by repetition, muscle exercising, or by increasing speed and force, but by widening and refining the cerebral control of the muscle range.

What I'm after isn't flexible bodies but flexible minds.....

What I'm after is to restore each person to their human dignity.

"Not only has Feldenkrais given me more freedom and awareness physically, it seems also to have given me more inner freedom. I have this year started art classes and I feel painting and Feldenkrais somehow meld together in awareness and freedom of spirit."

"We all come into this world with the capacity to imagine what we want out of life and to set about making it happen. But at some point in childhood we get discouraged: we are told what to expect. To be accepted socially, we begin to shutter the windows of imagination. Opening those shutters is re-opening the question of how effective you can be for yourself and for others. You can develop a new set of behaviours - visionary habits. It's never too late."

"I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. There is still a vast field left unexplored in the realm of body and mind.

Training a body to perfect all the possible forms and configurations of its members makes a profound and beneficial change in the self-image and the quality of direction of the self.

Self-knowledge through awareness is the goal of re-education. As we become aware of what we are doing in fact, and not what we say or think we are doing, the way to improvement is wide open to us."