What is New Human?
A living university at the intersection of movement science, Feldenkrais method, neuroscience, and the architecture of human freedom.
The Vision
Human movement sits in an odd place: it is fully physical and observable from the outside, yet it is also guided by an internal experience—one that cannot be seen directly: our sense of ourselves in action.
Much of the confusion in understanding human behavior comes from treating these as separate worlds: biomechanics and neurology describing bodies as mechanisms, and somatic experience describing effort, orientation, comfort, fear, and “self” as lived realities. But in practice they are not two different things.
They are two descriptions of the same event: a person organizing action based on what they sense, expect, and can imagine themselves doing.
“NewHuman” names an integrated view of human action: one that treats lived experience and biological organization as two perspectives on the same process.
The Problem
Many chronic patterns—stiffness, persistent pain, anxiety-linked tension, breath holding—are not personal failures or biological defects. They are protective organizations: sensible responses to situations the nervous system experiences as unsafe or uncertain.
When protection becomes the default, the body stabilizes itself by reducing degrees of freedom—increased co-contraction, braced breathing, and “preparation” before action. The cost is a narrower repertoire, higher effort, and less clear sensing.
The maladaptation loop: uncertainty → bracing → reduced sensing → more uncertainty → more bracing
The person feels they must try harder, which reinforces the pattern. The system becomes organized in a way that is harder to feel—and therefore harder to change.
The Solution
The key leverage point is not force, stretching, or willpower, but restoring trustworthy support, sensing, and choice.
Change follows improved awareness and an expanded ability to choose how we act. The self is not something to correct toward an ideal, but a working map—always partial, always revisable—that can be refined through experience.
Inhibition
The ability to stop, suspend, or reduce what is already happening. The hidden prerequisite for new coordination.
Differentiation
Increasing the capacity for one part to move without unnecessary participation elsewhere.
The JuJu
The intention-action gap. The moment between forming an intention and executing, where habitual preparation becomes visible.
Reversibility
The capacity to stop, redirect, or reverse an action at any point without a spike in effort.
A Living University
New Human is being built as an open, evolving platform—a place where practitioners, students, and researchers can explore the architecture of human action together.
- Lessons: Guided Feldenkrais experiences designed around the four pillars
- Wiki: A living knowledge base connecting movement science, neuroscience, and somatic practice
- AI Integration: Intelligent guidance that adapts to your learning journey
- Community: Open contributions, shared discoveries, collective refinement
Dive deeper into the framework
The full thesis maps out the philosophy, the neuroscience, the four pillars, and the pedagogy of restoring potency.
Read the Thesis