Feldenkrais. Eytan Mandel. Senso Motoric Coordination.

“Being part of the workshop of two days from Eytan Mandel was special and full of learning moments. He turned out to be a master in a fundamental part of the Method: „ making you experience and feel the weight and lightness of yourself”. The principle of „ less is more” founded its roots in the ATM’s and his F.I. demonstrations. One big theme was: „ the artificial floor”. The technique and the embodying of the reversal feeling of the proximal ( hip) and distal joints( feet on the same site) was well done. Mandel reached a Big concentration/ attention between the members of this workshop. It was a privilege to be a part of his advanced training and I think it is wise to try to keep myself updated twise a year by following his workshops.”

“Dear Eytan… I thoroughly enjoyed the training and went home inspired. Looking forward to seeing you next training. Best, Bianca.”

“It was a very special weekend and I feel privileged to have been a part of it….inspirational, energising, a fresh approach.. the start of a new journey. A door was opened to a whole new body of work that is fundamental to the heritage of our method. The clarity and directness of the FI work stood out, as well as the confidence this instilled in the attendees. The ATM’s seemed honed to their core essence and I can still feel the push and pull of the raising of the foot in my nervous system; this and my ‘Tarzan and pregnant Jane’ learning from my individual FI.”

Herr Eytan Mandel – gut auf Fragen eingegangen – praktische Übungen – gute, gemütliche Atmosphäre, da ich noch Turnen gebe, kann ich auch dort ein paar Übungen umsetzen –die Ruhe und Gelassenheit von Herrn Mandel – der Kursleiter hat es in einer lustigen Art rübergebracht -> gute Atmosphäre – Theorie und Bewegung waren ausgewogen – die vielen Bewegungssequenzen – das vernetzte Fachwissen von Eytan Mandel war für mich eine grosse Bereicherung – ein Supertag, kompetent mit Herz.

To whom who is interested! I saw ATM & FI of Eytan Mandel , a lot of Empathy, patience and always a smile to the students and students. The ATM was built magnificently, very clear language, I did not see a student who raised his head to look at others because he did not understand what the teacher said. The confidence that Eytan gives his students allows them the ability to listen to themselves and what I liked was that the Teacher allowed them to practice that they understood without the fear of “being mistaken” because in Eytan’s lesson there is no mistake or to do just so and not any other way. Eytan saw that one of the students did a certain movement so because so he understood. I liked very much that he approached him and suggested another option without giving the student a sense of not understanding! In the FI which I myself got, there was not even one unpleasant movement. Or to refer to my body and with Absolut sincerity I came out with a very pleasant and relaxed feeling in my body. Eytan thinks, scans all options and decides how to move my body, which of my organs to start with or to continue, so that it will be a “conversation” between two which are one, the teacher and the student and in short Dialogue. And any remark I had from the height of my professional age was accepted by Eytan to more possibilities. The wish to learn ,open more hatches is in Eytan’s DNA ,is in the essence of being a musician. I think that it is a great blessing to the Feldenkrais community that a teacher who is also a musician joins educating. Because the different shades, and not only black or grey , are the first learnt in Music. No doubt Eytan will bring with him the wish to allow each one of his students to develop according to his character,ability and the professional history. Eytan will be a teacher who will observe countless nuances in the performing of his different students and will embrace them for the sake of all his students and of course will learn from them for himself. I recommend that Mr. Eytan Mandel will be possible to broaden his professional path and go forward and teach all the knowledge he learned from Yochanan Rywerant,Dr. Eilat Almagor and other teachers Eytan learns from more and more.