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Would you like to feel, move, and look better?
The Feldenkrais Method® might be the answer for you! Feldenkrais is a mental and physical improvement system based on discovering natural, easy, efficient and pleasurable ways of moving your mind and body. It is an advanced educational approach to well-being using your brain’s amazing capacity to reorganize yourself. It is based on the premise that all human beings have the potential to learn to do everything they do in easier, less effortful and more satisfying ways than is their habit.
The particular way a person is “organized” to sit, stand, walk, run or speak in public, etc., reflects that person’s inner state, or their self-image. Human beings have a tendency to acquire subtle and sometimes damaging physical and mental habits of functioning which can become deeply ingrained. Some habits are useful – many are not. The Feldenkrais Method® can facilitate change by creating the awareness you need to alter those habits which don’t serve you well.
Feldenkrais will lead you towards:
- Moving with greater ease and efficiency
- Relief of chronic muscular-skeletal pain
- Increasing your range of movement without painful stretching
- Improvement in your posture and coordination, whether you are sitting, standing or walking
- Enhanced ease of performance and vitality in things you do every day
- Relaxation and emotional well-being, and engaging yourself positively in the world
- Feeling and looking years younger
- Transforming the quality of your life
The Feldenkrais Method® was founded by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, (Bio) an Israeli engineer, nuclear physicist and black belt in judo, who spent over 40 years researching the field of mind/body/environment integration. Using movement as a tool, he developed a step-by-step process involving hundreds of different lessons designed to improve our awareness and self-image. His method has been taught to a wide variety of people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, including teachers, musicians, artists, scientists, athletes and physical therapists.
Dr. Feldenkrais applied his extensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology, physics and engineering as well as his mastery of martial arts to restore his own functioning and that of countless others.
On its basic level, the Feldenkrais Method® improves posture, coordination, flexibility and suppleness. Moreover, it alleviates pain by minimizing physiological and psychological stress associated with restricted functions. Patterns of inefficiency, compromised self-expression, and forgotten ways of feeling can all be improved.
Feldenkrais can be experienced through:
GROUP CLASSES (Awareness Through Movement®): You are verbally guided through gentle movement sequences called Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) lessons. In these group classes, gentle exploratory movement sequences are designed to give each person more understanding of themselves. You learn to move with less pain and effort, and in such a way that changes occur in the brain patterns which organize control of your body. You will learn how to translate intention into action with ease, while getting rid of unnecessary interfering habits.
Lessons last approximately one hour. Most people take one class per week, though you will improve more rapidly if you take two classes. There are hundreds of ATMs to choose from in the Feldenkrais Method. The aim of these lessons is not necessarily relaxation, but rather healthy, powerful, easy, and pleasurable action.
INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS (Functional Integration®): This is "hands-on" Feldenkrais to meet your specific needs. The practitioner communicates, through gentle and non-invasive touch, the experience of comfort, pleasure and ease of movement, while the client learns how to reorganize their body and behavior in new and more effective ways. The practitioner's touch is instructive and informative, never corrective. Feldenkrais practitioners are trained to detect minute resistances in your movement patterns which often represent emotional, psychological as well as physical limitations. Using highly sensitive touch and gentle, exploratory movements, you will find freedom from compulsive, imprisoning patterns. It's often a huge relief! Functional Integration (FI) lessons are particularly suitable for people with specific problems such as back, neck, shoulder or other chronic pain, movement limitations or a need to improve any type of function.
In the Press:
Chrish and the Feldenkrais Method® In the Press
Here are links to some short videos on YouTube.com, 
giving you an idea of what it’s like to experience a Feldenkrais lesson and how the Feldenkrais Method could help YOU! Go here.
Ruthy Alon demonstrates Movement Nature Meant
Feldenkrais Class by Baby Liv
A story through the Feldenkrais method / Shet.H.Levi
Healing Quest: Feldenkrais Achieves What Medicine Could Not
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Feel Better with Feldenkrais®
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
Sunday, May 27th from 2-5pm
Free your Neck and Back
Spend a delicious afternoon learning easy ways to release: your neck, your back, your self! We’ll use the Feldenkrais Method® as our toolbox. You will learn how to make your neck and back “more intelligent”, better organized and without pain. You’ll also come away with some new ideas and moves about how to rescue your neck and back when tension mounts. You'll get a booklet to take home with tips, and we will have a break for refreshments.
Sunday, June 3rd, 2-5pm
Change Your Age
Experience the new body/mind fitness program developed by Dr. Frank Wildman, based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais. In this workshop, you will learn to move in new and different ways, increase ease of movement and decrease unnecessary effort; undo habitual physical resistance and replace bad movement habits with good ones. Go to
www.changeyouragenetwork.com for more info about this exciting program!
Sunday, June 24th, 2-5pm
Vocal Ease and Power
Are you limited by your voice? Would you like to improve the way you speak, enjoy the sound of your own voice, and be able to communicate more clearly and effectively? In this workshop we will look at what our voices communicate about ourselves and how to better “organize” our voice. We will use Awareness Through Movement® lessons dealing with breathing, voice quality, jaw tension, articulation and projection. We will also work with some text. Refreshments and a take home booklet provided, of course!
November 9-11, 2012
“Improve your Power”
with Moti Nativ
Presence, awareness, attention, ability to stay calm when under stress or in an emergency, feeling safe in one's own body, in one's own ability to respond naturally to anything that happens: these are all qualities that are not only essential for a warrior, but are also infinitely precious for each one of us.
In this unique weekend seminar, Moti Nativ, a certified Feldenkrais®
practitioner and martial artist, will bring us back to the early work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais that led him to develop his Method for learning and self-education, starting from his personal research into self-defense and the martial arts. We will delve into specific themes such as Finding Power, Dynamic Stability, the Art of Falling, Improving Balance, and Action without Effort. No previous experience in the Feldenkrais Method is required.
This workshop will allow everyone to learn and progress in complete confidence, comfort, and security. The course is therefore recommended not only to those who practice the Feldenkrais Method and martial artists, but to all those interested in finding improved self-confidence, power, better balance, improved and powerful posture as well as effortless movement.
Furthermore, anyone who moves for a living will find this course invaluable - dancers, actors, physical therapists, and athletes.
Dates:
Friday, November 9th, 2012: 6:00-9:00pm
Saturday November 10th: 10:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday November 11th :10:00am to 4:00pm
Cost for the workshop: Earlybird by September 15th $250 for all three days.
Thereafter $300.
Please email me here to sign up or more info!
Favorite Links
"Wild Garlic" - Can be acquired through the website of Peggy Tolleson...
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration® are registered service marks;
Guild Certified Feldenkrais PractitionerCM and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher® are
certification marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America.
