Deborah Bowes and Cliff Smyth's Feldenkrais Learning Resources
Pages  Educational Ideas and Bibiography, by Cliff Smyth  Here
are some books on education that I think will be of interest to
Feldenkrais teachers and others.  Moshe Feldenkrais talked about
his approach as 'organic learning' - learning with the whole
organism. He differentiated this kind of learning from the
social learning we need to be part of society and from the kind
of academic learning we find in school and training for
employment. He thought that the most important kind of education
is self-education. We consider the Feldenkrais Method
educational, and Feldenkrais' emphasis was on the process of
learning for the participant rather that some 'thing' being
taught by the teacher. The teacher's role is to create a
learning environment for the student. Feldenkrais also
emphasized that learning did not occur only in language. Because
thinking, sensing and feeling cannot be separated in action,
learning occurs directly, in the whole person and t