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Experiences Bodywork
Classes Events September October
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Feldenkrais® Class Menu
In
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
classes, students are
invited into a sequence of gentle, slow movement explorations, usually
lying down or sitting, designed to bring attention to habits that may be
creating functional limitations. Eyes
are usually closed to invite internal sensory awareness and reduce the
temptation to compare one-self to others. Lessons
are appropriate for the young, the old, the highly skilled performer and
those navigating challenges in movement.
It’s beauty lies in fully embracing, supporting and validating
the notion of meeting yourself where you are and finding new options
that may be used or discarded as appropriate.
"Making
the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant." A truly healthy
person has many different ways to do what s/he wants to do. Attending to how you do what you do can open up
whole new realms of possibility. The intent of
the method is to assist students to live more fully, comfortably and
effectively by expanding ways of thinking about, and perceiving possible
movements, actions and ways of being in the world. Through
gently exploring verbally directed movement lessons coordinating
attention, perception and imagination, improvement in personal
organization often results in an experience of deep relaxation, greater
comfort and reduction of chronic pain or tension.
Sometimes it means the opportunity to experience or perceive
chronic pain in a different way. Because the emphasis is on awareness,
students are encouraged to explore small movements, proceeding slowly
enough to allow attention to the subtlest of connections.
This is an ever-deepening journey that allows experienced and
beginning students to participate simultaneously in the same
exploration. The quality of
attention emphasized in the Feldenkrais Method provides a wonderful tool that will enrich your
experience in all other movement classes. Emotional
trauma or on-going stress, as well as physical injury, all summon a
protective response pattern from the nervous system.
These patterns, necessary for protection at the onset of trauma,
often remain when no longer needed, outside of awareness, continuing to
cause discomfort and limitation. By
bringing awareness and attention to these habitual patterns, the
protective posture is given an opportunity for change that can deeply
affect the habitual defense system.
The Feldenkrais approach teaches how to tap into the nervous
system’s enormous power for self-reorganization.
Employing small, slow movements, with an attitude of kindness and
a high quality of attention, allows the brain to become involved in
creating new learning experiences. The Feldenkrais Method, developed in the 1040’s by Moshe Feldenkrais,
Ph.D. is an educational system that uses movement and quality of
attention as the mediums for learning how to learn, (the organic
learning we used as infants) and for opening the central nervous system
to new possibilities for improved functioning.
Faced with a crippling knee injury, Dr. Feldenkrais brought his
extensive and varied education and work experiences in physics,
mechanical engineering and martial arts to his investigation of how we
teach ourselves to move. How
might that process be used to recover from injury and/or add new
abilities to our vast repertoire of functional movement?
How might attention to how we learn be applied to how we might
live our lives, interacting kindly with ourselves, with others and with
our environment?
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Necessary Class Materials For
Pilates classes you will need a mat and towel or blanket These are all available for sale or rental at Mountain Waves |
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