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The Feldenkrais Method®
What is the Feldenkrais Method®?
The Feldenkrais Method® helps you develop a greater awareness of how you move. Reconnect with your natural abilities to move, think, and feel better. Whether you want to be more comfortable sitting at your computer, playing with your children and grandchildren, or performing a favorite pastime, these gentle lessons can improve your overall well being.
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 facilitates physical improvements. Everyone, from athletes and artists, can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method®.
How can the Feldenkrais Method® help me?
Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method®
- Relief from muscular-skeletal and joint pain, including; discomfort in your back, neck, shoulders, hips, and knees.
- Improved flexibility, posture, breathing and quality of movement.
- Quicker recovery from injury and surgery.
- Increased mobility, stability and balance.
- Reduced muscular tension, stress and anxiety.
- Better athletic performance and stamina.
- Enhanced ease of movement and co-ordination.
- Reduced inflammation and improved circulation.
- Encouraged development of new neural pathways
Feldenkrais Sessions & Classes
Functional Integration® - Manual Therapy
Functional Integration® lessons are designed to meet your personal needs including muscular-skeletal, neurological problems, or pain management. Communicating through painless touch and movement in addition to words, the teacher guides you in your process of self-discovery.
Awareness Through Movement® Class
ATM classes consist of verbally directed, gentle exercise lessons involving sophisticated movement sequences. The lessons directly engage our natural intelligence in a gentle and pleasurable way. ATM accesses the sensory motor processes of the brain and involves attention, perception, imagination and cognition. There are hundreds of lessons, addressing every joint and muscle group in the body and every human function.
Photos of Functional Integration Lesson
Founder of The Feldenkrais Method®
About Moshe Feldenkrais
Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., (1904-1984) was a distinguished scientist, physicist and engineer. He earned his D.Sc. in Physics from the Sorbonne and was a close associate of Nobel Prize Laureate Frederic Joliot-Curie at the Curie Institute in Paris, where they conducted research together.
Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais was also a respected judo instructor and author of many books on the subject. Living in England in the 1940s, Feldenkrais found himself unable to walk after suffering a serious injury. He began an intense exploration into the relationship between bodily movement and healing, feeling, thinking, and learning. As a result, he restored his ability to walk and made revolutionary discoveries, culminating in the development of the method that now bears his name.
Today there are nearly 4,000 Feldenkrais practitioners around the globe. His insights contributed to the development of the new field of somatic education and continue to influence disciplines such as the arts, education, psychology, child development, physical and occupational therapy, sports enhancement, and gerontology.
source: www.feldenkraisresources.com
Books by Moshe Feldenkrais:
Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning: Somatic Resources, 1950, 1980.
Awareness Through Movement: Health Exercises for Personal Growth. New York: HarperCollins, 1972,1993.
The Potent Self. New York: Somatic Resources, 1985, 2004.
The Elusive Obvious. Cupertino, CA : Meta Publications, 1981.
Body Awareness as Healing Therapy: The Case of Nora. Somatic Resources, 1977, 1994.
The Master Moves. Cupertino, CA : Meta Publications, 1984.
Embodied Wisdom. Somatic Resources, 2010.