The Feldenkrais Method®
Healthy Movement for a Healthy Life!
Movement is
meant to be easy, pain-free and pleasurable!
If
you are living with physical pain or limitations, want to sit, walk, run
without pain, or you want to improve your performance as an athlete of performer?
Even compulsive behaviours or feeling stuck, the gentle movements of The Feldenkrais Method ®brings improvement to any
aspect of your life.
If you can experience your movement as easy,
you'll be able to experience your life as easy!
Learning to move with less effort makes
daily life easier. Because the Feldenkrais Method®focuses on the
relationship between movement and thought, increased mental awareness and
creativity accompany physical improvements. Everyone, from athletes and
physical challenged, artists to administrators benefit from the Feldenkrais
Method®.
How do we know what we don't know?
We improve our well being when we learn to fully use
ourselves. Our intelligence depends upon the opportunity we take to experience
and learn on our own. This self learning leads to full, dynamic living.
Ordinarily, we learn just enough to function. For
example, we learn to use our hands well enough to eat, our legs well enough to
walk. Our abilities to function with a greater range of ease and skill,
however, remain to be developed. The Feldenkrais Method® teaches - through movement - how we can improve our
capabilities to function in our daily lives.
How does it work, and why has FK to such a large field application?
Very simple! It works with your nervous system. Our
nervous system organizes and regulates every aspect of our life / body. Why is
a muscle tight? Because the brain tells it to. There might be good reasons, but
very often these restrictions come out of old habits. They are conditioned.
Consciously these patterns are not available anymore.
Feldenkrais Practitioners are trained in detecting
these restrictions and releasing them. Giving your brain new ways to do
whatever it is you want to do.
This is why people from all walks of live can use it.
Whenever you need to improve, whatever it is. The Feldenkrais Method is the
most powerful way to gain full access to your potential.
STILL DOESN'T MAKE SENSE???
Call Joseph at 778 233-0889 or e-mail me to
fjsoma@gmail.com
Functional Integration® (FI) is a
hands-on individual session. The Feldenkrais® practitioner instructs the client
as to how he/she can organize his/her body through guided movement patterns. The lesson is
custom tailored to the unique configuration of that individual at that moment.
Group work:
In "Awareness through Movement®" (ATM)
classes
you are guided through special designed sequences of movement which allow to
dive deeply into your awareness/nervous system, into your patterns of movement,
and slowly exchange old patterns with new ones. This increased awareness brings
improvement to whatever it is you are engaged is.
Feldenkrais experiences are in general free of pain
and force.
"No Pain, Lots of Gain"
Some examples how Feldenkrais can help
Multiple Sclerosis:
- Maintaining or improving balance
- Easier walking
- Easier getting in and out of bed
- Easier standing up and sitting down
- Recover easier from and after falls
- Avoid accidents
- Pain reduction
Link to MS Society BC
Chronic Pain:
- Very
often chronic pain results out of habitual holding patterns that slip the
mind. By giving your body/nervous system new patterns chronic pain often
disappears. The Feldenkrais Method is very often successfully used to make
chronic pain a thing of the past.
Yoga:
- Deepen
Yoga practice by increasing awareness and understanding of movement and
function.
- Improve endurance, speed and flexibility
- Improve performance by fine tuning movement
- faster recovery after injury
- Improving performance by fine tuning the muscles towards more intricate, but effortless movment and differnciation, improve balance
Administration and drivers
- Pain-free sitting on the computer of behind the steering wheel.
- Assisting therapy by helping to let go of old patterns and behaviour that manifests through the body, and giving new options to do olsd things in a new healtier ways.
Better Sex:
- I
put Sex down here not to scare people. Sex is after eating the most important
function in life, that is a matter of fact. So how come it is such a
sensitive subject? Unfortunately it is a subject loaded with a lot of
pressure, commerce and frustration. Making it an honest subject is
important. I also counsel couples and individuals on the subject
sex.
Please Call Joseph at 778.233.0889 or e-mail at fjsoma@gmail.com
... meeting you, talking to you and doing Feldenkrais where all things that affected me for the better, and I thank you for that. Fabio Castello, RMT Toronto
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, andFunctional Integration® are registered service marks; Guild Certified Feldenkrais PractitionerCM and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher® are certification marks of
the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America.