… But the role for which he would have wished to be remembered was his bringing all these backgrounds together to become one of the most important forces in holistic healing, who fused insights from Eastern thought and Western science in a whole new way.
Now, finally the great integrative genius and master of turning scientific insights into practical ways to help people has found, in Mark Reese, the biographer he deserves.
Moshe Feldenkrais: A Life in Movement, Volume One is a fastidiously researched, exciting, profoundly insightful story that gets deep inside the mind of the swashbuckling, theatrical, brilliant integrator, as he lived through many of the greatest intellectual, political and scientific events of the the 20th century.
He, in his struggle to overcome his own major injury, pioneered a unique way of teaching people to learn how to learn, and to change their brains, by increasing awareness of whatever they did, providing the foundation for a gentle but powerful approach to alleviating human suffering.
Norman Doidge, MD, author of The Brain That Changes Itself and The Brain’s Way of Healing.
