It’s very rare for me to mention Feldenkrais in the UK and for someone to reply that they had heard of it. I'd never heard of it either, until a few years ago, a pain specialist recommended that I see a Feldenkrais practitioner. It was to become the start of a new pain management and movement journey for me, and if it had been 20 years earlier, I probably would’ve trained to be a Feldenkrais practitioner! History of Feldenkrais 1 It all started with Dr Moshe Feldenkrais, in the 1940s. He researched and developed anti-submarine detection equipment for the British Admiralty, when he was forced to flee Paris. He was an inventor, a physicist and engineer, and he was also a student of Judo. Feldenkrais studied with the founder of modern judo, Jigaro Kano, in Paris, earned his black belt (one of the first Europeans to do so) and eventually opened the first Ju Jitsu Club of Paris. It wasn’t until the return of a childhood soccer injury that he consolidated all of these...