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Making "the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant."

– Moshe Feldenkrais

The Feldenkrais® Method of somatic education

The Feldenkrais Method® is an innovative system of neuromuscular re-education.  By better organizing our mind-body connection through somatic awareness, The Feldenkrais Method® can help expand our options for moving and living more fully, efficiently, creatively and comfortably.
Using subtle movement and heightened awareness, students break down habitual behaviors into smaller, more subtle component parts.

Learning and change become possible through mindful attention, curiosity, and playful experimentation thus re-establishing connections between sensorimotor cortex and nervous system. (Connections that may have been disturbed through habitual misuse, tension, or injury). 
​Focusing on developmentally-based patterns of behavior, students can rediscover movement range and ease.
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With greater movement efficiency, students enhance their potential to excel, whether in high performance activities such as in sports and the arts or simply living more fully.
​"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

 // The feldenkrais method is practiced using two complementary approaches

awareness through movement®
group classes

​In Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes, students are verbally guided through slow movement lessons that heighten awareness of how we move. Each ATM explores a different movement sequence designed to evoke curiosity and clarify self-image for greater ease and efficiency.  
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​Awareness Through Movement classes are gentle enough for all ability levels and challenging enough for all who seek greater sensorimotor integration and a heightened sense of well-being.

Functional Integration®
individual sessions

Individual hands-on lessons with a Feldenkrais practitioner are called Functional Integration (FI) sessions. In FI, the student is guided to integrate functional movement patterns in more fully organized ways leading to:
  • deepened sense of body awareness,
  • expanded movement range, ease, flexibility, and comfort,
  • identified habitual movement patterns and more choices,
  • addressing of specific movement challenges, and
  • increased personal well-being. 

ADDITIONAL ​RESOURCES ​

The Feldenkrais Method is remarkable among movement modalities because of the focus on LEARNING. Whether in group classes or through individual sessions, by practicing the Method we:
  • rediscover what we learned as infants about moving,
  • experience benefits of directing attention and reducing effort, and
  • understand how to become our own best teacher.​ ​
​Explore the many benefits of learning the Feldenkrais Method through sample lessons and links to recommended reading!
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Moshe Feldenkrais, 1904-1984

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“Movement is life; life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.” 

 ~Moshe Feldenkrais

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The information contained in or made available through this site is for educational purposes only; it is not intended as medical or mental health advice and should not be used that way. As with any physical  activity, seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health professional before participating in any movement lessons. Only a physician can make a diagnosis of TMS/PPD.