What is Feldenkrais?
Posted: Oct 3, 08:34 PM
The Feldenkrais Method of somatic education® is designed help you move with greater ease. There are two ways you can learn Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration®. Many people feel that they learn best by combining both aspects of the method.
In Awareness Through Movement lessons, an instructor talks you through a series of pleasant and natural movements. She will encourage you to take plenty of rests, to work at your own pace and stay within your range of motion. Each lesson lasts about an hour. Most lessons are done on the floor on mats, but some are done sitting or standing.
Functional Integration is a hands-on way of learning Feldenkrais. It is geared to your individual needs. You lie wearing loose clothing on a specially designed table, while the teacher guides your movements in a non-invasive way. You can use Functional Integration to attend to an injury or specific issue, or just to enhance your learning.
The Feldenkrais method is taught by thousands of practitioners, world-wide. Its inventor, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) was trained as a physicist and engineer. He drew on his knowledge of martial arts and child development to create this remarkable method of somatic education.
Feldenkrais can help you …
- Make choices about how you move
- Manage stress
- Recover from injury … avoid re-injury … improve your performance
- Enhance creativity … not just for artists
- Use your energy and strength effectively
Who will benefit from Feldenkrais
The short answer is, anyone and everyone! But here?s a partial list: athletes, dancers and performers of all kinds, people who work to deadlines and spend long hours at the computer, nurses, wait-staff, and people who spend a lot of time on their feet, writers, visual artists, seniors, athletes, and senior athletes, full-time parents and care-givers (Feldenkrais is quiet time for you), people recovering from injury or living with chronic pain.
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Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method® and Awareness Through Movement® are service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America.
