Available for Purchase

A Life in Movement Volume One

available for purchase:
FRTI Bookstore
830 Bancroft Way, Suite #112
Berkeley, California
(In the Rudramandir Center)
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Feldenkrais Resources

About the Book

In the early 1980’s, Mark began to formulate the idea of writing a definitive biography of Feldenkrais. The concept was not only to cover his life story, the incredible people he knew, the pivotal world events through which he had lived, his relationship with the early history of Judo, and his work as a physicist with Frederic Joliot-Curie, but that the book would additionally provide a full, erudite history and explanation of the development over time of Feldenkrais’ theories, and how they would lead to the development of what today is called the Feldenkrais Method.

This would be no ordinary biography; it would put Feldenkrais’ ideas into a larger intellectual and historical context of the most important ideas of our times, in philosophy, physics, biology, and psychology.

Mark brought to this task his love for Socratic questioning, his rigorous thinking, and his requirement for precision in language. Literally no stone would be left unturned, whether that stone might be found in one of Feldenkrais’ childhood homes in present day Ukraine, or in the still secret nuclear bomb archives of the State of Israel. And then there was the tracking down and interviewing of Feldenkrais’ family, close friends, students, and fellow scientists in the U.S., France, England, Switzerland, and Israel, a race against time since so many were already elderly.