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Wellness
Feldenkrais
"It is healthier to learn than to be a patient or even to be
cured. Life is a process not a thing. And processes go well if they
are many ways to influence them. We need more ways to do what we
want than the one we know even if it is a good one in itself."
Moshe
Feldenkrais
THE
FELDENKRAIS METHOD
The Feldenkrais method is a learning process to teach people to
expand their repertoire of movements, enhance awareness, improve
function, flexibility, relaxation, and give you a better sense of
your orientation in space by learning about the relationship between
the movement and many other parts within yourself.
The Feldenkrais method is a series of gentle body movements that
make you feel and understand who you are and how you use yourself
and develops sensory awareness to recognize habits of movement and
posture. As we become aware of our habits we have choices and new
options of movement.
Because the Feldenkrais method is based on such a fundamental human
experience movement, it reaches a wide range of people of all ages
and capabilities. It will reduce physical or emotional stress, recover
after traumatic injury or chronic disability and increase the efficiency
of your movement in your daily life.
The health of any part of the body relates to the healthy functioning
of the entire body. The parts of the body are like a machine and
they all need to be able to work together so that each part function
as its best.
Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais said to a student :
"I am going to be your last teacher. Not because I'll be the
greatest you may ever encounter, but because from me you will learn
how to learn. When you learn how to learn, you will realize that
there are no teachers, that there are only people learning and people
learning how to facilitate learning".
After his death, the community of practitioners formed the national
Feldenkrais Guild which governs the professional practice of the
method and the training of practitioners.
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ATM
: Awareness through movement.
The teacher guides the students through verbal movement sequences.
You will sense and discover unknown reactions and learn a better
way of acting without judging, trying to achieve, change fix or
correct anything, with a range of comfort and without unnecessary
effort. ATM classes are an exploratory, non judgmental and non-goal
oriented process of learning. Repetition is not important, rather
the awareness when you perform the movements.
FI : Functional integration
Functional integration lessons are private and individualized learning
experiences between teacher and student. It is done through touch
rather than verbal direction and wearing loose or comfortable clothing
is recommended. Through functional integration you will learn and
sense what is causing you discomfort, explore non-habitual movements
to create new patterns of neuromuscular organization and movement.
The practitioner provides support and guidance to learn a more effective
ways of moving.
ABOUT
DR MOSHE FELDENKRAIS
DR. MOSHE FELDENKRAIS (1904-1984) held a doctorate in physics from
the Sorbonne. 1st in Order of Merit of the Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering Division.
In 1934-36 he developed an instrument used in the first fission
experiments in Professor F. Joliot Curie¹s lab.
In 1936 he was the first European to earn a Black Belt in Judo,
and founded the Jiu-Jitsu club de France in 1934. Author of "Jiu-Jitsu
and self defense" in 1929, "Autosuggestion" in 1930
and "La defense du faible contre l'agresseur" in 1932.
He developed his work through teaching himself to walk again after
suffering a crippling knee injury from playing soccer.
Dr. Feldenkrais has explored the relationship between experience
and motor expression for the past 40 years and the success of his
efforts was the practical beginning of his extensive research in
anatomy, physiology and neurology.
Feldenkrais trained about 300 practitioners in Europe and in the
States to continue his work.
He is the author of books :
The Potent Self. New York: Harper&Row, 1985.
The Master Moves. Cupertino, CA: Meta Publications, 1984.
The Elusive Obvious. Cupertino, CA: Meta Publications, 1981.
Body
Awareness as Healing Therapy: The Case of Nora. Berkeley, CA: Frog
Press/Somatic Resources, 1977, 1994.
Awareness Through Movement: Health Exercises for Personal Growth.
New York: Harper Collins, 1972.
Higher Judo: Groundwork. New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1952.
Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and
Learning. New York: International Universities Press, 1950, 1980.
His students have included Margaret Mead, David Ben-Gurion, Werner
Ergard, Yehudi Menuhin, Helen Hayes.
ABOUT
MARTINE VON DER WEID
Martine von der Weid is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner.
Besides graduating from the four-year Feldenkrais training program,
she has studied different massage techniques like Thai-massage,
deep-tissue massage, Swedish massage and acupressure.
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