Attention Feldenkrais Practitioners! Purchase “The Balance Master Series for Elder Citizens” in a ring bound hard copy format. How? Via the Australian Feldenkrais Guild (AFG) (Inc) WA division committee member Jenny Price. Email Jenny Price at jendprice@hotmail.com to organise payment and ordering. Jenny may take up to a week to respond to your email. Cost – $85 plus postage with payment done as a Bank transfer to an Australian bank account. Currently only available as a hard copy, becoming available as a PDF download by late 2020. Weighing 800 grams it is bulky, postage is expensive so its not practical to post overseas.
Feldenkrais Practitioners Annie Cosgrove and Richard Yin created this program in 1999. They used the lessons to research the effect of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons on elderly citizens. With 32 lessons this is a comprehensive program (see below).
Participants were independent, community living individuals aged 65 to 85. While many had previous falls, some sustaining fractures of the wrist or ribs, none was using a walking aid. They were randomly assigned to one of three groups for 16 weeks. So they were given “no treatment”, Tai Chi or Feldenkrais.
Results of the clinical assessment showed the Feldenkrais group fared the best. They had statistically significant improvements in functional activity indices and functional balance testing. A subgroup of women fearful of falling were assessed. This group had a significant decline in their fears.
Contact Jenny Price jendprice@hotmail.com for more information regarding ordering a copy.