feldenkrais
"Making the Impossible Possible, the Feasible Easy
and the Easy Elegant” Moshe Feldenkrais
The FELDENKRAIS METHOD® offers a fresh new and revolutionary approach for re-educating your overall body posture for more efficient and productive functioning while improving both your physical and mental health and performance.
Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-84) developed the method over 40 years of study and research following a severe knee injury.
The Feldenkrais approach utilizes movement and attention to easily re-program outdated stressful postural habits and replace them with the natural organic ease, freedom, flexibility and inner power and confidence you experienced as a little kid!
The Feldenkrais Method is suitable for people of all ages regardless of your history.
It is applicable for anyone wanting to enhance the quality, efficiency, effectiveness and productivity of your everyday life and activities you enjoy.
Rather than teaching the so called 'correct or right’ way to move, this unique approach offers you many ‘choices’ of how you might move, depending on -
* your habitual posture and movement organization
* the context you are currently in
* the action you are intending,
You are guided to choose fresh new and interesting movement sequences that open up possibilites that you didn't know were there! This kind of self inquiry from the inside-out enables you to re-program your nervous system. The brains unique quality of neuroplasticity is accessed for the most efficient, most comfortable and most pleasurable way to move, whatever your circumstances.
Watch fellow Feldenkrais Practitioners demonstrate and discuss this new way of resolving stressful postural habits and muscular tension and stiffness resulting in inefficiency and loss of energy and productivity in all that you do. Click the video below.
Guided self discovery and curiosity evoke better use of your skeleton and thus your whole-self. Your skeleton is that part of you that bears weight and transmits force. Most adults however tend to under utilize their skeletons and overwork their musculature which is commonly identified as poor posture with associated muscular stress, tension, stiffness, limited joint flexibility, pain and possible injury.
How is Feldenkrais taught at Inner Strength?
Classes called “Awareness Through Movement” lessons (ATM)
Participants are verbally led through a series of structured movement sequences, which utilize attention, perception and imagination. Designed to evoke a more synergistic use of yourself, the lessons establish new patterns of movement. As the lessons progress, participants become more aware of their movement habits, affording them new patterns of behavior. The movements are usually done lying down or sitting, and in a manner that recognizes each participant’s own pace and range of motion. Comfort, ease, and the quality of movement are the main criteria used towards developing greater ease with what you do and how you do it.
Individual lessons called “Functional Integration” (FI)
This is a hands-on process which addresses particular individual problems. Fl lessons are tailored to each client's needs. The Feldenkrais practitioner guides your movements through precise touch.
The client lies or sits, comfortably clothed, on a low padded table. The practitioner brings present habits into focus and offers new movement options.
The learning is then applied to everyday activities such as reaching, sitting, standing and walking.
For further information check out the Australian Feldenkrais Guild Website.