What is The Feldenkrais Method®?

The Feldenkrais Method uses a series of gentle, organized movements that awaken awareness and enhance the way you move as a whole person. Feldenkrais® lessons resolve conflicts between muscle groups at the neurological level, so changes are deeply sensed. As a result, the skeletal system becomes freed to support you in gravity, allowing the muscles to efficiently move the skeleton. Restrictive or painful habituated patterns are replaced with efficient, comfortable ways of moving. Because the Feldenkrais philosophy does not separate the mind and body, more choices for thought and emotion are generated by communicating directly with your nervous system.


What Makes the Feldenkrais Method Unique?

When I work with people, privately or in classes, comfort is of the utmost importance. Slow, gentle movements allow me to communicate directly with the nervous system. Never forcing or pushing, I create a safe context in which the nervous system can learn and change. When clients come for a lesson, they wear loose, comfortable clothing. Private lessons are done on a low table and class lessons are typically done on the floor.


What is the Feldenkrais Method effective in treating?

• TMJ Relief
• Anxiety and Fear
• Post Surgical Recovery
• Complete Recovery from Injury
• Occupational Stress or Repetitive Strain
• Neurological Issues such as MS, Stroke and Parkinson’s Disease.
• Back, Neck, Shoulder and Joint Pain
• Chronic Pain
• Balance and Coordination Issues
• Limited Movement and Stiffness
• Poor Posture

How is the Feldenkrais Method Taught?

Private Lessons: Functional Integration®
Functional Integration lessons are tailored to the client’s unique needs and organization. Through touch and movement, I communicate a clear message of a more functional organization to the client’s nervous system. Through these lessons, overall functioning and sense of well-being improve and problems diminish or resolve.

Classes & Workshops: Awareness Through Movement®
Awareness Through Movement is a series of verbally guided, gentle, slow and organized movements typically done on the floor on a mat in a group setting. These lessons guide students’ awareness toward their own movement patterns. Students begin to generate more choices in thought, emotion and action, and problems and discomfort are resolved. Call for a current schedule of classes.


What are the Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method?

• Resolve Inefficient, Painful Patterns of Movement
• Increase Flexibility and Range of Motion
• Improve Posture in Sitting, Standing and Walking
• Increase Strength, Endurance and Energy
• Improve Balance (Reduce Falls) and Coordination
• Become More Fully Aware
• Achieve More Complete Recovery from Injury or Surgery
• Reduce Anxiety and Stress
• Generate More Choice in Thought, Emotion and Action
• Improve Quality of Life