Moshe Feldenkrais Quotes

Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant.

Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable.

Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.

Standing is harder than moving.

No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.

What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.

A brain without a body could not think.