How is Feldenkrais different from yoga, tai chi, Pilates or Alexander Technique?
Feldenkrais is more about movement than yoga or Alexander Technique, less about position or posture. Dr. Feldenkrais was concerned with function and dynamic alignment, what kind of alignment you need at any given moment for any given task, rather than static posture. Like tai chi, Feldenkrais is about moving with the whole self, but provides ingenious methods for accessing this quality of movement. Like Pilates, Feldenkrais is concerned with coordination but is less strength-based and more efficiency-based. Different from these other disciplines, the Feldenkrais Method at bottom is about learning. Dr. Feldenkrais believed that learning happens most profoundly through movement: when you can sense and feel something as you take action, your brain really understands in an embodied way that you have choices other than your habitual ones.
