About Awareness Through Movement®
Learn how to move with minimum effort and maximum ease, not through muscular strength, but through increased awareness of how the body works.
Lying on the floor you are directed through a series of gentle, non-invasive movements that grow increasingly complex.
At the same time you are asked to pay attention to specific sensory feedback. The teacher instructs you on how to adjust the direction, speed, timing, and force of each movement as the lesson continues.
Often the lessons are like puzzles in which you figure out how to move around fixed constraints. This puzzle-like situation prompts the nervous system to activate a different muscle pattern than you usually use.
As a result, at the end of a lesson habitual muscle tension releases. You sense the stability of a balanced skeleton. Your breathing is freer, walking lighter, and eyes clearer. Your kinesthetic perception enhanced, you can move in ways that you thought were restricted.
By sensing more clearly how you move, you can move better, live better, and get back to doing the things you love.
Why do these lessons?
You've been training your whole life to become the person you are now. Who do you want to become next?
When you train in sensing yourself differently, you also sense completely new choices. Movement is our expression in the world, so relearning our unconscious patterns can affect our sense of self and our relationships with others.
Like psychotherapy, martial arts, getting in shape, changing your diet, or any other pursuit of well-being and vitality, the time and investment you put in is linked to your results.
Most of us start in a place of chronic, habitual tension. We’ve forgotten what it even means to let go. This chronic holding takes a lot of energy and contributes to fatigue, stress, and injury.
It is not until we are aware of what we need to learn that we can even imagine letting go of our conditioned tension. By sensing more clearly how we move, we can move better, live better, and get back to doing the things we love.
Many of my clients—including me!—make Feldenkrais a lifelong practice to stay mobile, flexible, and resilient.
Some of my clients do an audio lesson every day just to be able to walk. Others practice to keep playing guitar, continue cycling, riding horses, running, or getting onto the floor to play with grandkids.
Personally, I do it because my quality of life is not up for negotiation.
“The world we have created is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ”