THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD

Watch an infant reach for a toy, or children getting up and down off the floor. Chances are you can hardly remember a time when moving felt so effortless and pain-free. Your movement and posture may be compromised by stresses you barely notice or you may be well aware of chronic issues that affect you. Whatever the case, you can learn to improve, regardless of your age or physical condition.

Along with increasing the body’s strength and flexibility, the Feldenkrais Method helps people manage stress and correct habits that cause pain and limit movement. It can also completely change your ideas of what movement you can do. You expand your self-image and venture into new skills and levels of activity beyond what you thought possible. The Feldenkrais Method can help you:
      • Eliminate or reduce pain and chronic tension
      • Increase your flexibility
      • Increase your strength and power
      • Improve your posture
      • Perform better athletically or artistically
      • Relieve repetitive stress injuries
      • Recover movement diminished by injury, trauma or unhelpful habits
      • Improve coordination impaired by a neuromotor disorder
      • Prevent injuries

With every acquisition of new knowledge and skill we achieve greater and greater independence of some permanently acting restraint.    -  M. Feldenkrais

Moshe Feldenkrais, D. Sc.: The Feldenkrais Method was developed by Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) in the late 1940s.  He was a physicist, judo expert, athlete, mechanical engineer, and educator. Synthesizing this training with his deep curiosity and study of linguistics, biology, neurology, and perinatal development, Dr. Feldenkrais taught himself to walk without pain after a crippling knee injury.  Among his students were Margaret Mead, David Ben-Gurion, Yehudi Menuhin, Helen Hayes and Julius Irving.