The Feldenkrais Method® is for anyone who wants to reconnect with their natural abilities to move, think and feel, making life more easy. It uses slow, mindful movements to achieve senses of strength, flexibility and holistic integration of body and mind.

Typical participants in the Method include: Athletes, Actors, Dancers, Musicians, Yoga Enthusiasts, adults interested in living better through easier movement and people with chronic pain.

Wondering what you might get out of learning with the Feldenkrais Method?

Awareness: Through developing better awareness of how you move, you become more comfortable with yourself and actions, both physically, and emotionally, leaving greater room for action, self expression and creativity.
Reduced Pain: Gentle movement can be an active part of learning to live pain free.
Strength, Efficiency, Power: In studying movement through Feldenkrais Method, you'll learn the difference between force and power, and you will discover how to work efficiently, reserving your energy for things that fulfill you most.
Safety, Improved Breath, Focus: As you practice the Feldenkrais Method, you discover better use of breath  and new ways to manage your perceptions, developing a more focused sense of what's important in the moment, and what's just background noise. 

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Feldenkrais® is expressed in two forms...

Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) lessons are designed for groups, but individuals may request private ATM lessons. Lessons consist of a progression of verbally guided movement that brings people to engage with curiosity in movement explorations, beckoning thinking, sensing, moving, and imagining.

These curiosity provoking movements gradually evolve into movements of greater range and complexity. Based on developmental movements and functional activities, the lessons bring us  to know our self better. In discovery of habitual patterns and new ways of feeling movement, we expand options for our ways of being and moving.

Sensitivity and efficiency increase and we develop the space to simply be and respond to the moment we are currently experiencing. 

Feldenkrais Guild - Awareness Through Movement

Functional Integration® (FI) combines gentle touching and verbal instruction to guide movement, The Feldenkrais practitioner communicates to the student efficient and more fulfilling ways of being.  Typically during FI, students lie on a table designed specifically for the work. Functional Integration can also be done with the student in sitting or standing. It's tailored to the specific needs of one person.

Functional Integration has benefits similar to ATM. The two forms of the Feldenkrais Method, Awareness Through Movement& Function Integration, are simply two different ways of experiencing this work.

Feldenkrais Guild - Functional Integration

Feldenkrais and Musicians

Living in a musical family, I hold a special place for Feldenkrais and musicians.  My most established clients are each musicians. In fact, my daughter is a cellist and a regular at the game of learning through Feldenkrais.  Check out her website and work.

Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, Functional Integration®, are registered service marks of the FELDENKRAIS GUILD® of North America. Feldenkrais® photos by Rosalie O'Connor. Other photos used by permission.