The Feldenkrais Method is a method by which a practitioner interacts with a client through movement to increase their awareness and functionality.
The Method
is used to address injuries, improve dysfunction due to longstanding
conditions, and improve performance in healthy people. Practitioners create increased self-awareness
in their clients through the medium of movement because of the clarity of the feedback
for the nervous system.
The Feldenkrais Method is taught in two
formats: Functional
Integration (one-on-on session) and Awareness Through
Movement (class setting).
Functional Integration ®) When you come to a one-on-one Feldenkrais session you will enter a room with a table very much like a massage table or a chiropractic table. You will probably lie down on the table. But that's where the similarities end. No bones are cracked. No muscles are massaged. The Feldenkrais practitioner will assess how you move, sit, and stand. Then the practitioner will move various parts of you in tiny, gentle movements. These movements will not hurt at all; if they do, you are expected to tell the practitioner, and the practitioner will do something else. After a while, the movements may become a little larger, and may involve more of your whole body, but at no time will the movements be painful or difficult. You are expected simply to take notice of the way you feel as the session progresses, and in what you notice at the end of the session. You may find you are standing a different way, although you will not be able to explain why. You may find you are more relaxed, more comfortable, or that something else has changed that you cannot describe. This is a result of the work, and over time, it can create great changes in your body that will make your life less painful, less challenging, and more enjoyable.
(Awareness Through
Movement®) The work is also done in a class-setting where lessons are given
via a series of verbal directions to an entire group. The practitioner will ask interesting
questions throughout to direct participants’ attention to the process of their
learning as they progress through the lesson.
You will not remove any
clothes other than your shoes, and occasionally your socks, during a session.
Clients often begin the session on their backs, but many lessons can be done
while the client is seated, standing, or curled up on their side. If a position
is uncomfortable for you, you will not be asked to remain in it. The Feldenkrais
instructor is taught that the best improvement occurs when the client is in a
relaxed, pleasant environment.
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