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The Feldenkrais Method as Practical Physiological Psychology

The Feldenkrais Method® is generally described as a form of somatic education or therapeutic practice designed to improve daily function....

Assessing Autism: Conducting a Medical or NeuroSomatic Evaluation?

A consistent hoop that many parents of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities need to jump through in having a child with...

Somatic Connections: Introducing the New SomaticWell Social Forum

The SomaticWell Center is continuing to consolidate itself as the premier site for integration of Somatic Practices with cutting edge...

Researching the Feldenkrais Method

What are the optimal methodologies for conducting research into the Feldenkrais Method? While there is a clear set of lessons and...

Somatic Ethics

The concern by human-beings with their own embodied somatic selves as the ground for amelioration and improvement – physically, mentally,...

Autism: The Movement Perspective

The DSM-5 defines autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and social...

My Year of NSV

Introduction Over the past year I have been developing and teaching Neuro-Somatic-Variations (NSV) online to a small group of...

Observing Autism Through a Different Lens

What is autism? The term autism demarcates two very different polar positions. On the one hand, there is the medical definition of...

Exploration of Space as an Effective Early Screening Test for Infants with Autism

Introduction A recent research paper by Ilan Golani (Professor Emeritus in the School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University) and colleagues,...

Children's Play

Children’s play is one of the most natural-social phenomena in the world. Watching children tumble and roll in free play is like watching...

Whence SomaticWell?

This is my first SomaticWell blog post. I am using it as an opportunity to narrate a little about the origins of SomaticWell. The...