Essential Action Toolkit

Would you like to move and feel better?

This comprehensive Feldenkrais program is designed to restore and revitalize the way you move every day. It consists of eight ‘mini’ workshops to help you improve the essential actions of Breathing, Turning, Reaching, Balancing, Sitting, Standing, Getting Up & Down, and Walking. The workshops are available individually or as a complete set.

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When Everyday Movement Does Not Feel Easy

Is your breathing free and easy? Can you turn to look over your shoulders without discomfort? Do you reach for things effortlessly? Is it comfortable to sit, stand, bend, turn, get up and down, and walk?

When our essential actions become difficult -- tense, sore, and restricted -- all of our activities are affected. Limitations in even one of our essential actions can compromise our overall mobility and well-being. If you have noticed a difficulty in one or more of your essential actions, this set of short Feldenkrais workshops can help.

The Feldenkrais lessons in the Essential Action Toolkit are designed to help you restore, improve, revitalize, reorganize, and refine the ways in which you move. They will stimulate your brain’s capacity for improvement and well-organized function, and help you to move comfortably again.

Improve your essential actions to bring greater ease and freedom to everything you do.

What People are Saying

"I've attended all of the Essential Toolkit workshops and will continue forever as they are truly Essential! I have benefited immensely from them."

~Diana Rolls, Program Participant

"To move easier and have less pain is truly a miracle. I'd pretty much resigned myself to the fact that my status was as good as it would get. Then I found Feldenkrais Access."

~Michael Holland, Program Participant

"I have to admit I'm not handy with tools, but David's lessons are all the wellness tools I need!"

~Dr. Ruth Dickover, Program Participant

Improve the Way You Move

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Put Yourself on a Healing Path with David Zemach-Bersin

David’s many years of experience helping people to feel and function better, make his Feldenkrais lessons reliable, highly effective, and remarkably suited to use at home.

“We can get used to pain and restrictions in our movement, and forget what it’s like to feel comfortable and move freely. These lessons will help you to remember! When your essential actions are easier, more efficient, flexible, and free of pain, everything you do will feel freer, lighter, simpler, and less stressful.”

~David Zemach-Bersin

New to Feldenkrais?

Get ready for something soothing, surprising, powerful, and different!

Who are Feldenkrais lessons for?

They are for everyone. No previous experience is required. Feldenkrais lessons are flexible and used by people of all ages and abilities, for a wide range of reasons. If you have a brain and a body, Feldenkrais lessons are meant for you.

Why are they called lessons?

They're called ‘lessons’ instead of ‘exercises’ because your brain engages in a natural kind of learning when you do them. They use gentle movement and relaxed attention to stimulate new and better options for your physical comfort, movement, and more.

Why does this approach work?

Your brain is on the lookout for information that can help you, and Feldenkrais lessons give your brain what it's looking for: sensory information, time to notice differences, and a chance to build new neural pathways for greater comfort and mobility.

Meet David Zemach-Bersin

David Zemach-Bersin is a world-renowned Feldenkrais Teacher and Trainer whose warm, confident teaching style reflects nearly five decades of helping people heal and develop their potential. David studied directly with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method, and graduated from the first Feldenkrais Teacher Training Program held in the U.S. in 1977. David has become an expert in this versatile, sensory-motor approach which engages the brain's neuroplasticity to bring about healing and improvement. David is co-author of RELAXERCISE (HarperCollins) and the Director of Feldenkrais Access, where he teaches online Feldenkrais classes and programs for the public and develops training materials for Feldenkrais Practitioners. He lives with his family in Connecticut.

Experience Improvements in your Essential Movements

Breathe freely
Turn more easily
Reach comfortably
Balance effectively
Sit comfortably
Stand comfortably
Get up & down comfortably
Walk with ease

The Complete Program Includes:

Eight targeted workshops
Twenty Feldenkrais lessons
Eight Introductory talks
Six discussions
Information to help you adapt the lessons to alternative positions
Lifetime access to recordings and option to download

Purchase All 8 Workshop

Purchasing the complete Essential Action Toolkit gives you access to all eight workshops as an integrated learning experience and saves you 35% off the price you'd pay if purchasing them individually. Together, they support deeper, more lasting improvements in comfort, coordination, and ease, while allowing you to learn at your own pace and revisit lessons whenever you need. It's a simple, cost-effective way to support long-term mobility and everyday well-being.

Purchase the Complete Set