Тяло и зряло поведение

More than 70 years ago, Moshe Feldenkrais undertook the development of a movement-based educational process, known today as the “Feldenkrais method”. Body and Mature Behavior is a foundational work underlying this renewed system for human development.

Praise for the book

Mark Reese, author of the Feldenkrais biography A Life in Movement and co-author of Relaxercise: “Feldenkrais's first book on his method is an inspired account of the discoveries he made in the field of learning and behavior as a scientific researcher in Scotland during World War II. It presents an exciting summary of twenty years of work both as a martial arts trainer and on himself, while Feldenkrais studied physics, neurophysiology, developmental biology, and psychology. The concise definition of his fundamental theory can be drawn from all of his books: a comprehensive, systemic review of physical movements, thought, feelings, sensations, and the environment. Body and Mature Behavior charts the first steps to his method for raising human development to a higher level, with a movement-approach that enhances kinesthetic awareness and triggers the organism's self-regulating forces.”

Richard Shusterman, professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University and author of Performing Live: “Body and Mature Behavior makes a strong case for the masterly genius of Moshe Feldenkrais in bringing together body and soul, theory and practice, nature and culture, freedom and constraint. This classic work on somatic thinking is as relevant today as it was visionary at the time of its first publication more than half a century ago.”

Dr. Jim Stephens, physical therapist and professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Temple University: “When in 1949 he published Body and Mature Behavior, Moshe Feldenkrais was ahead of his time by decades. His working perspective is that social and physical experience, influencing the nervous system together, can change the intellect—a theory of brain function that is only now beginning to be appreciated. Body and Mature Behavior is a fruitful outcome of creative thinking in which Feldenkrais formulates the philosophical foundations for the development of his incomparable approach to human growth and learning, now known as the Feldenkrais method.”