People ask: "What's the difference between Feldenkrais and yoga? Don't both promote awareness?" My short answer is: you bring Feldenkrais to yoga classes, but you don't bring yoga to Feldenkrais classes.

When somebody asks "What is the goal of Feldenkrais?", there are so many things I could say. How would our lives be if we didn't pursue a goal in everything we do? If something makes us feel good, if it enlarges us, does it need to have a purpose?

My personal journey into Feldenkrais.

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes (remote and in Stockholm), to move with more ease.

If you've got up to here, you've probably read a bunch already.

More than that, you only need to know that my name is Stefano Ottolenghi, and that you can reach me at smultronfelden@gmail …

Feldenkrais Functional Integration sessions in Stockholm, to heal pain and feel better.

In Swedish, smultronställe literally means place of wild strawberries: it is a place of exceptional beauty, one connected to sweet memories and playfulness, that is close to your heart, where you feel at ease and …

Feldenkrais Workshops in Stockholm, to get a taste of the method.

All pain is real. If you feel it, it's real. If you suffer from chronic pain, it doesn't mean your pain is fake, or that it's less valid than pain experienced during a trauma, or that you are making up your pain. All pain is real. But some elements may suggest that there are some forms of pain (neuroplastic pain) for which focusing on fixing the body is not the right strategy. We need to target the mind.

When we come into an experience with expectations, our finger is so rigidly pointed at one thing that we can't appreciate anything else. We can't be surprised. The mindset that brings us places is one where we are curious, open-minded, and light-hearted. One where we don't know what we'll find, and we are happy to find out. What's best is that, with this mindset, there's always something to take home. It might not be what we had hoped for, but it will still be something. And at some point, we stop even having hopes. We just show up to experiences and have a good time.