The Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education
Does your back hurt? Do you have trouble focusing your attention? Have you stopped participating in activities you used to enjoy? Have you reached a plateau in your sport or profession that seems insurmountable?
The Feldenkrais Method is for anyone who wants to reconnect with their natural abilities to move, think, and feel. Whether you want to be more comfortable sitting at your computer, playing with your children and grandchildren, or to enhance your athletic or performance skills, these gentle lessons can help you free yourself from chronic pain, recover forgotten ease and efficiency, and discover unexpected power and elegance.
Learning to move with less effort makes daily life easier. Because the Feldenkrais Method focuses on the relationship between movement and thought, increased mental awareness and creativity accompany physical improvements. Everyone, from athletes and artists to administrators and attorneys, can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method.
After experiencing Feldenkrais lessons, people often express feelings of relaxation and ease. They may breathe more freely and find their thoughts have more clarity. The learning process is full of delightful surprises and personal breakthroughs.
Feldenkrais lessons teach you the means to take charge of your own improvement and are offered in two ways:
In Awareness Through Movement® lessons, the teacher verbally guides you through a sequence of gentle movements intended to help you develop a greater awareness of how you move. These lessons occur in a group setting.
Functional Integration® lessons are tailored for each individual. Through gentle touch and movement, the practitioner conveys the experience of comfort, pleasure, and ease of movement, and suggests how the student can move in more expanded functional motor patterns.
Regardless of which learning style you choose, the Feldenkrais Method can help you overcome limitations brought on by stress, accident, or illness, improve a skill, or simply rediscover creativity and spontaneity in your life.
“What I'm after isn't flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I'm after is to restore each person to their human dignity.”
- Moshé Feldenkrais