What is The Feldenkrais® Method?
Discover the transformative power of the Feldenkrais® Method with FREEDOM THROUGH FELDENKRAIS®. Enhance your movement, well-being, and overall quality of life through this unique approach to somatic education.
Unlock Your Movement Potential
The Feldenkrais® Method is a somatic-based movement education method that combines small, slow, gentle, neurologically important movements with awareness to access the learning centers of the brain. This creates more neurological pathways for how we move, think, feel, and sense, leading to enhanced overall function. By slowing down and attending to our experience of movement we can become more aware of our habits and tendencies and then discover alternate ways of moving, therefore creating more choice and more freedom.
"When you know what you are doing, you can do what we want." - Moshe Feldenkrais
Benefits of The Feldenkrais® Method
Experience a multitude of benefits with FREEDOM THROUGH FELDENKRAIS®.
Some benefits include but are not limited to:
Increased mobility
Increased flexibility
Improved posture (acture)
improved balance and coordination
Decreased pain
Skeletal support and ground support
Freedom of breath
Nervous System regulation
Improved sleep
Increased awareness
Sense of wholeness
Mental and emotional clarity
Opening of new possibilities
Who Can Benefit?
The Feldenkrais® Method is beneficial for any person interested in moving better and feeling better. Whether you're an athlete, musician, seeking relief from chronic pain, or looking for more internal connection and awareness, this method can help you access your potential.
What makes Feldenkrais® unique?
The Feldenkrais Method® helps to re-educate our movement patterns through awareness by tapping into the body's own healing intelligence (the Nervous System). Not through force or effort, but through an increased consciousness of how our nervous system, musculoskeletal system, and all are parts work as an integrated whole. To paraphrase Moshe Feldenkrais, "If you focus on a problem, you will always have that problem. If you focus on your overall organization, you will improve".
The founder of the work believed that " Good posture (acture) is the ability to move in any direction without preparation or hesitation". Jeff Haller, one of my mentors who trained directly under Moshe Feldenkrais adds that this is" dependent on the specificity with which you receive support from the surface you are on".
Therefore, this method brings improvements through working with the whole person and their unique organization in discovering lighter, more efficient and connected movement in relation to ground support through the skeleton.
This is what you can learn through Feldenkrais. And when we learn to embody and sense these possibilities of internal support and freedom within ourselves, we shift from moving from a state of insecurity and protection to a state of possibility and choice.
“What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.”
–Moshe Feldenkrais
Discover New Possibilities Today
Ready to experience the benefits of the Feldenkrais Method? Contact FREEDOM THROUGH FELDENKRAIS® to schedule your first Private Lesson or ATM class and begin your journey to improved movement and well-being.
Learning to think in patterns of relationships, in sensations divorced from the fixity of words, allows us to find hidden resources and the ability to make new patterns, to carry over patterns of relationship from one discipline to another. In short, we think personally, originally, and thus take another route to the thing we already know.” -Moshe Feldenkrais