The Feldenkrais Method is a way to learn how to use your body with ease and efficiency, so that you can do the things you want to do.  Through movement and awareness you learn how to decrease unnecessary effort and tension in your everyday movement habits.

Feldenkrais can help you not only relieve pain, but also learn how to use your body in a safe and healthy way in order to avoid getting into trouble again.

Everyone can benefit from moving more comfortably and efficiently:

• Recreational athletes
• Elite athletes
• Dancers, actors, singers, artists
• Individuals with chronic pain
• Pregnant women
• People who want to improve their posture

The Feldenkrais Method is practiced in two forms:

Awareness Through Movement® (ATM)

One of the central tenets of the Feldenkrais Method is that more effort and brute strength do not necessarily equal more efficiency.  In fact, more muscular effort often leads to increased strain on our bodies.  The problem is that we are not always aware of the unnecessary tension we carry.  We just become aware of the resultant aches and pains.  In an ATM lesson the movements are done on a very small scale and the objective is for students to pay attention to how much effort they use.  Students generally lie on the floor or sit in a chair and the teacher provides verbal cues that not only guide students’ movements, but that also direct their awareness and help them learn how to decrease their effort and tension.  This, in turn, will cause their movement to become smoother, easier, and more efficient.  ATM usually occurs in a group setting, but can also be done privately.

Functional Integration®

In a Functional Integration lesson the student lies on a table wearing comfortable clothing, and the practitioner gently guides the student's body within various movement pattterns.  The experience helps students learn how to decrease effort, which in turn will cause their movement to become smoother, easier and more efficient.  The touch used in Feldenkrais is gentle and is designed to find and explore movement patterns that engage one's entire nervous system.  Feldenkrais does not involve deep tissue work, as in massage, or joint manipulations, as in Chiropractic.

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