Abraham is a philosopher and Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. Born in Mexico City in 1949, he has lived in Israel since 1976 and also resides in Berlin.
Professionally, Abraham is a professor of philosophy (retd.) at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and has been practicing the Feldenkrais Method for more than two decades, including teaching and directing workshops at venues in Spain, Germany, Israel, and Mexico.
In his philosophical work, Abraham specializes in the relationship between selfhood and the body, specifically, in the ways in which practices shape persons and their identities. As a Feldenkrais practitioner, he directs workshops with groups and in person-to-person with people interested in self-healing and transformation.
Abraham’s books and scholarly articles are phenomenological studies of basic human experiences, such as being in the world and interacting with objects and persons, as well as of artistic creation and practices that are exercised in the public sphere, such as truth-telling. Most recently, he has published on intersections of the Feldenkrais Method with the cultural domain as representative of a wider “somatic turn” of Western culture. In his new book, The Feldenkrais Method: Power of Self-Transformation, Abraham threads together the themes of selfhood and the body with a somatic practice.
Abraham’s work has been published widely in academic journals, and his publications are quoted extensively in books and professional journals of diverse fields of knowledge. His work has been highly praised, and he has received grants for his research from a variety of sources, among them the Richard Koebner Minerva Center, the Edmond Rothschild Foundation, and The Israel Science Foundation (ISF), founded by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
The following are service marks or certification marks of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America: Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais Method, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner.
Abraham Mansbach 