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CHAPTER 12 - CHANGING THE BRAIN THROUGH MOVEMENT - THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD OF SOMATIC EDUCATION AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
Source: Chapter Author Kira Charles, JD, GCFP
Kira Charles, JD, GCFP - Written on behalf of the Feldenkrais Guild
Moshe Feldenkrais D. Sc. (1904–1984), the creator of the Feldenkrais Method®, was a man who knew trauma. As a child, he survived pogroms (organized massacres of the Jewish population) in the Ukraine. He lived through two world wars. In 1940, he fled Paris only hours before the arrival of the Nazis and managed to escape on the last refugee ship to leave France for England. Many of his relatives were killed in the concentration camps. As a young man he lived in Palestine, where the threat of attack on Jews, who
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