FELDENKRAIS METHOD®: Feldenkrais Method® is an educational system that uses movement to teach self awareness and improve function. Feldenkrais Method® was developed by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904—1984), who began by exploring his own experience and healing a chronic knee injury. Feldenkrais was a distinguished scientist, a mechanical engineer, physicist and martial artist in Judo. Self—knowledge through awareness is the goal of reeducation. As we become aware of what we are doing in fact, and not what we say or think we are doing, the way to improvement is wide open to us.
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AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT®: In Awareness Through Movement® classes you will experience slow, mindful movements to achieve powerful effects in terms of strength, flexibility, and holistic integration of body and mind. Unique to Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education is that these lessons tie directly into functional movements of daily life, such as walking efficiently, safely lifting objects, and improving one’s posture in sitting or standing.
You can expect a class to last somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes. You might walk, stand, or sit in a chair, although usually, you will lie on the floor in a variety of comfortable positions: either on your back, front, or side. I guide students through a sequence of movements, encouraging them to move with gentle attention within a comfortable range. Within the lesson you may become aware of unexpected and interesting connections within and between the movements. As you attend to the improving quality of movement, unnecessary muscular tensions throughout the body can reorganize and release. Students are often amazed at the quick and clear changes that occur through the neuromuscular repatterning that happens in an Awareness Through Movement® lesson.
4x Monthly Group Class
Postural Apprenticeship
FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION®: Feldenkrais® private sessions are known as Functional Integration® lessons. In Functional Integration®, I guide the client in movement lessons using gentle, non-invasive touch as the primary means of communication. Functional Integration® lessons are flexible in their approach, determined by a persons needs. You may lie comfortably on a table designed specifically for the work, or do some of the lesson sitting or standing. As needed, I may also use various props to support your comfort, to make certain movements easier, or to clarify a movement.
Each Functional Integration® lesson relates to a desire, intention, or need of the individual. The learning process is carried out without the use of any invasive or forceful procedure. Through rapport and respect for your abilities, qualities, and integrity. A session is tailored to an environment in which the individual can learn in safety and comfort. The lesson is developed, specifically for you, custom-tailored to the unique circumstances of that particular person, at that particular moment. Thus, a person learns how to reorganize their actions in new and more effective ways through the experience of comfort, enjoyment, and ease of movement.
Through working with a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CM) you will learn more about yourself, with this knowledge you can then be offered new possibilities for action in which your whole self participates.
how you breathe.
how you co—ordinate the movements of your eyes, head and pelvis and spine.
how to organize your actions to gain better support through your skeleton.
how you can move with grace, ease and efficiency.
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