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How does Feldenkrais work?
Many of our everyday aches and pains occur as a result of how we move. Over our lifetime we each develop unconscious habits about how we do things. Sometimes these ways of using ourselves no longer serve us well, and we develop pain or discomfort. The Feldenkrais Method can help you to become aware of how you move and enable you to learn new ways to move, which are more comfortable and cause less stress to your body. The emphasis is on awareness and learning, rather than ‘correcting’ or ‘fixing’. |
How is it learned? The Feldenkrais Method can be learned in group classes - called Awarness Through Movement and individually in Functional Integration sessioins. Jackie offers both of these modalities. |
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The Feldenkrais Method was founded by Dr Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), an Israeli scientist and engineer as well as a keen martial arts practitioner.
Following a knee injury as a young man, he began to study anatomy, physiology, psychology, child development and theories of learning in order to avoid undergoing surgery, which had an uncertain outcome. Combining these studies with his knowledge of physics, engineering and the martial arts he learned how to move so that the damaged knee did not impinge on his freedom of movement. |
Feldenkrais began sharing his discoveries with others – helping people with all kinds of limitations – from recovery from stroke or other injury, to management of multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy. He began training students to be practitioners themselves, first in Israel and then in the United States.
Although he died in 1984, such training continues in dozens of countries, on almost every continent and there are currently about 4000 practitioners of the Method that bears his name.
Although he died in 1984, such training continues in dozens of countries, on almost every continent and there are currently about 4000 practitioners of the Method that bears his name.