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Feldenkrais NYC Movement for Pain Relief, Recovery, and Your Optimal Health. Attentive practice. Profound changes. New skills and abilities.

Physical Therapy & Feldenkrais NYC is a participating member of The Hospital for Special Surgery Rehabilitation Network. You are welcome to work with us online, individually, in group classes, and by joining our online courses through our learning platform. We are looking forward to working together!

Join us for a FREE introductory Feldenkrais Movement Class and discover how gentle movement can improve flexibility, bal...
10/22/2026

Join us for a FREE introductory Feldenkrais Movement Class and discover how gentle movement can improve flexibility, balance, and overall well-being!

Thursday, October 29th | 6:00 PM
Location: Feldenkrais NYC – Chelsea Office
134 W 26th Street, 2nd Floor

Limited spots available! Register now.https://courses.feldenkraisnyc.com/free-intro-signup

Somebody long ago named it a rib cage — and most bodies have been serving the sentence ever since.The truth is kinder. E...
10/10/2026

Somebody long ago named it a rib cage — and most bodies have been serving the sentence ever since.

The truth is kinder. Each of your twenty-four ribs meets the spine at its own small joints — dozens of them, built to glide a little with every breath you take and every turn you make.

That pliability isn’t a luxury. It’s your lower back’s best friend.

Here’s why.

Turning — to the kettle, to the car’s back seat, to the person calling your name — is a job your whole trunk was meant to share, and the ribs and middle back were designed to carry the biggest part of it.

Your lower back was built to carry, not to twist far.

So when the chest stiffens into the cage it was named for, the turning doesn’t stop. The bill just moves — down to the lower back, which does the overtime.

And overtime is what aches.

In my practice, some of the kindest news a stiff, tired lower back ever receives is this: the problem was never only there. Wake the ribs, and the lower back gets to go back to the job it’s good at.

Try the smallest version tonight.

Put a palm on the side of your ribs. Send one easy breath into the hand — feel it rise and widen. Then turn once, slowly, and feel the bars move.
Nothing in there was locked. It was only never invited.

Save this — your lower back will thank your ribs.

Onward & upward,
Marek Wyszynski, PT, GCFP Physical Therapy & Feldenkrais® NYC ·
Member, Hospital for Special Surgery Rehabilitation Network

10/08/2026

Degeneration is the gray hair on the inside.

The scan didn't find the cause of your pain. It found your age — and everyone else's.

And here is the finding worth knowing: the bigger, worse-looking herniations are often the most likely to shrink away on their own. The scary one on your report has the best odds of disappearing.

This is why the clinical guidelines say what they say: no MRI for back pain unless there are warning signs or worsening nerve symptoms. In one major trial, people who got early scans ended up with three times more surgery — and no better outcomes.

If a scan is truly needed, your warning signs and your doctor will tell you.

Otherwise, you have my professional permission to stop re-reading that report.

Your back can learn. That's where recovery actually lives — in movement, not in images.

🎓 Tonight, 7 pm ET: The 5 Skills of a Pain-Free Back — a free live class.

Link in bio and comments.
Marek Wyszynski, PT, GCFP

There’s a shelf in her kitchen that tells the story better than she does.The bottle for the mornings. The one the doctor...
10/07/2026

There’s a shelf in her kitchen that tells the story better than she does.

The bottle for the mornings. The one the doctor added for the evenings. The one that’s supposed to cover whatever the first two miss.

A national survey landed last week — nearly a thousand adults over fifty-five, all living with persistent pain. Close to 7 in 10 said the pain still gets in the way of daily life.

A third had combined an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory with a prescription one. A quarter were taking acetaminophen twice — once on its own, once tucked inside a combination pill.

She isn’t careless. She’s doing exactly what the plan keeps suggesting: add.

And somewhere along the way, most people who keep that shelf draw a private conclusion — my body is simply the problem now.

Here’s what I want to say to the woman inside that statistic.

Seven in ten is not a crowd of failing bodies. It’s one incomplete plan, repeated — millions of times over.

Pills can quiet a signal. That’s real work, and worth keeping when it helps.

But nothing in a bottle teaches a body to move with less alarm — and the teaching is the part that lasts. Your nervous system learns at every age. It never handed in its notice.

So keep what helps you. The shelf isn’t wrong. It’s just been asked to finish a job it was never designed to finish.

If it’s your back that fills the shelf: tomorrow evening, I’ll teach the missing part of the plan — the five skills that quiet a back down for good.

👉 Free event: The 5 Skills of Healthy Backs — Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 pm ET. Link in bio to save your seat.

📚 Source: Alliance for Aging Research national survey, released September 2026 — nearly 1,000 adults 55+ living with chronic or post-procedure pain.

Onward & upward, Marek Wyszynski, PT, GCFP Physical Therapy & Feldenkrais® NYC · Member, Hospital for Special Surgery Rehabilitation Network

By ten o’clock this morning, her back had already filed its report.The catch getting out of bed. The twinge bending for ...
10/06/2026

By ten o’clock this morning, her back had already filed its report.

The catch getting out of bed. The twinge bending for the spoon that got away. The careful little turn when someone called her name.

By the time she tells me about it, she can quote every entry. She isn’t complaining — she’s reporting, faithfully, from the only diary her brain keeps.

Here’s the bias built into every one of us: the nervous system writes pain in ink and ease in pencil. It’s old survival equipment. The moment that hurt gets recorded.

The thousand moments that didn’t were never written down at all.

Think about your own morning so far.

You rose from a chair — probably several times. You bent for something. You turned to look when the kettle whistled. You reached for a cup on its shelf.

If your back stayed quiet through most of that, none of it made the record.

And over the years, the lopsided diary becomes the story you believe about your back.

So don’t wait for tonight. Right now, name three movements from the last half hour that went well — the chair you just left, the reach that didn’t pinch, the turn that was just a turn.

You’re not pretending. You’re not ignoring the pain. You’re keeping honest books — and a nervous system shown its own evidence of safety begins, slowly, to believe it.

Your back is not the sum of its worst three moments. This morning already proved it.

This Thursday evening, I’ll show you what to do with that evidence — the five skills that quiet a back down for good.

👉 Free event: The 5 Skills of Healthy Backs — Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 pm ET. Link in bio or comments to save your seat.

Onward & upward, Marek Wyszynski, PT, GCFP Physical Therapy & Feldenkrais® NYC · Member, Hospital for Special Surgery Rehabilitation Network

10/05/2026

Back pain is frustrating. Physical therapy, chiropractic, massage, yoga, Pilates, injections, surgery—all can work, yet none are a guaranteed fix. Why? Because each offers only one piece of the puzzle. Lasting relief comes from mastering 5 skills: releasing tension, sensing movement, sharing the load, daily practice, and calming your pain alarm. Stop the lottery, learn the skills. Join me this Thursday at 7 pm ET on Zoom. Link in the comments.

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134 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY

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Monday 9am - 7:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 6:30pm
Thursday 9am - 7:30pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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