"Self-knowledge through awareness is the goal of reeducation.
As we become aware of what we are really doing, and not what we say or think we are doing, the way to improvement is wide open to us."
Moshe Feldenkrais
What is Feldenkrais?
The Feldenkrais Method is a way to consciously perceive yourself and your movement habits. By training individual body awareness, practiced patterns that cause restrictions or pain can be dissolved.
In this process, new qualities of movement, posture, self-esteem and emotional experience can be created.
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"Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.
The child does not exercise in the sense a grown-up does, by repeating an action in order to improve it. The child’s attention is directed by curiosity, which is innate in all living things. Repetition in a small child is more often due to the pleasure the act evokes and to its novelty, than to any intent to improve.
Moshe Feldenkrais
Flexible bodies? Flexible brains!
Feldenkrais is a somatic and organic learning method that eliminates the mind-body split. All aspects of conscious experience - thinking, acting, feeling and sensing are taken into account.
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In group lessons you carry out small movements slowly and with concentration. You start looking for the easiest way to do it.
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New perspectives and possibilities can be found through playful experimentation. This creates more flexibility, range of motion and coordination step by step.
“Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.”
Moshe Feldenkrais
creativity
self-image
emotions
By improving how we move, we can simultaneously enhance flexibility in thinking, emotional regulation, and problem-solving skills.