by Ravi Prabhakar | Mar 30, 2022 | Ravi
Chapter 12 – How To Be More Flexible… At Any Age “If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. If it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.” Joseph Pilates, Founder of Pilates. In the last chapter we made the case that flexibility is not...
by Ravi Prabhakar | Feb 11, 2022 | Feldenkrais Method, Ravi
Chapter 11 – On Improving Flexibility The Good News, The Really Good News & The Really, Really Good News “What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible brains….” Moshe Feldenkrais In today’s world, where public opinion is...
by Ravi Prabhakar | Dec 7, 2021 | Feldenkrais Method, Ravi
Chapter 10 – Are You Fit, Fit For What? Exploring The True Meaning Of Fitness “When we talk about fitness, a question that we often forget to ask is: “Fit for what?” Edward Yu In Edward Yu’s book, “The Mass Psychology of Fittism” he makes a provocative case...
by Ravi Prabhakar | Jul 11, 2021 | Feldenkrais Method, Ravi
Chapter 7 – The Elephant in the Room & The Lost Sense In this world nothing can said to be certain, except Death and Taxes.” Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin made a fundamental error in not counting gravity among the true certainties in this world. Rationally...
by Ravi Prabhakar | Jun 10, 2021 | Feldenkrais Method, Ravi
Chapter 6 – Do You Know What You are Doing? “You can do what you want, if you know what you are doing.” Moshe Feldenkrais This is perhaps the most famous quote from Dr. Feldenkrais. It is also somewhat confusing. Don’t we know what we are doing? For the most part,...
by Ravi Prabhakar | May 29, 2021 | Feldenkrais Method, Ravi
Chapter 5 – Why Doing Less is More In almost everything “Most of the time we fail to achieve what we want by enacting more than we are aware of, rather than by missing what is essential.” Moshe Feldenkrais The phrase “Less is more” is sometimes used to promote a...
