Feldenkrais Method
lightness more energy ease of movement elmiminate pain spontaneity comfort in your body fluid movement re-educate clarity old patterns playful optimise health self-awareness stability joint strength better concentration mobility
“Put a little spring in your step"
Contact a Feldenkrais Method practitioner at the Dublin Holistic Centre
The benefits of The Feldenkrais Method
- Improve mobility, fluidity and ease of movement
- Reduce and eliminate pain created by unconscious habits of moving, thinking and feeling
- Deepen the sense of the aliveness of the body and clarify that the mind and the body are one uninterrupted system
- Put a spring in your step
- Enjoy moving, being curious and being without judgement
- Improve spontaneity in action and skill in using the body
- Address the tensions which give rise to stress
WHAT IS The Feldenkrais Method?
The Feldenkrais Method is a sophisticated and enjoyable means of eliminating pain, deepening self-awareness and becoming more comfortable in our bodies and skilled in our actions. Using gentle movements and directed attention the method assists us to discover and let go of limiting patterns of movement and behaviour.
It is also an excellent support in handling stress, improving mobility and spontaneity and enhancing clarity of thought. The method was developed over 40 years of research by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais who was an Engineer, Scientist and Judo-master.
People who use the Feldenkrais method often experience a new lightness or ease of movement, greater mental clarity and a positive emotional state. Working with the Feldenkrais Method assists us to discover new modes of moving, thinking and sensing.
WHAT CAN IT treat?
- recurring pain or severe lack of mobility
- Low energy
- Sleep disturbances
- headaches/ back / hip pain etc..
- pain with no specific cause
- psychosomatic disorders
- a source of support during emotional distress
- people having suffered strokes
- people with cerebral palsy
WHAT HAPPENS DURING A SESSION?
The Method is taught in 2 forms
Awareness Through Movement (group classes)
These are sophisticated and enjoyable movement explorations. The classes are carried out in lying, sitting or standing often taking a particular function as a theme.(Turning, folding, walking, breath…) The intention is to add new possibilities of movement, action and thought, to regain ease in our movement, reduce tension, eliminate pain, and deepen self- awareness.
During his lifetime Moshe feldenkrais developed over a thousand lessons making it one of the largest bodies of movement work in the world. People who do these lessons often experience a new lightness and freedom in their bodies and positive emotional states. The classes are open to all regardless of age or state of health. If, however, you are experiencing serious pain or lack of mobility individual sessions will be more appropriate.
Functional Integration (individual sessions)
FI is the one-to-one modality of the work and is generally a more profound way to experience the method. Here the practitioner can create sessions for the individual needs of the person. This is mostly hands on work carried out in a respectful, gentle manner.
The client is fully clothed and often lying down for a good part of the session.
Through the interaction of practitioner and client new and improved modes of movement, action and thought can be discovered.
