What is the Feldenkrais® Method?

The Feldenkrais Method is fundamentally about our ability to learn. It offers a unique and comprehensive way to examine and change habitual patterns. The ways in which we usually think, sense, feel and move are often self-limiting or damaging. They no longer meet our current needs. You may have noticed this yourself.

• Injure yourself in the same areas over and over?
• Always get a stiff neck or shoulder on the same side?
• Have soreness from sitting or getting up from sitting?
• Have your tennis or golf ball go awry in the same direction every time?
• Have a repetitive tension pattern?

Based on the work of Israeli physicist, engineer and martial arts master Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), the Feldenkrais Method is grounded in anatomy, physiology and physics. It is also informed by the latest research into movement and human development.

Feldenkrais brings these disciplines together to help us learn how to learn. Ordinarily, we learn just enough to get by. In the Feldenkrais Method you learn from your own unique ways of moving. As you become more aware of how you actually do all that you do, how you sense, act, think and feel, you gain a greater range of ease and skill. With Feldenkrais you empower yourself by asking and learning how to answer a simple question: Is there an better way to do this?

As you learn to expand and refine your range of movement, you move through your daily life with greater efficiency, ease and co-ordination and much less effort. You also remove major sources of chronic tension and pain.