What is the Feldenkrais Method®?

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Most of us develop habitual ways of sitting, walking, and moving in childhood that we carry into adulthood. Everyday activities like opening and closing doors, carrying groceries, and getting in and out of cars are repeated so frequently that we are unaware of how we use our bodies or how much energy we expend in performing these actions.

Over time, these habitual ways of doing things can put unnecessary stress on the body, leading to tension, pain and, even injury.

Changing habits, especially bad habits imprinted over a lifetime, takes extraordinary effort - or so we’re told. Many believe that only through determination, hard work, and vigilance can we make lasting changes.

It took the genius of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli physicist and judo expert, to disprove the notion of “no pain, no gain” - at least, in modifying habitual ways of moving.

Far from requiring strenuous effort, Feldenkrais recognized that the body and mind - he viewed them as unified - can develop new and healthy patterns of moving through easy and gentle guidance.

While living in England during the 1940s, Dr. Feldenkrais suffered a serious leg injury. The doctors gave him a 50 percent chance of being able to walk again. Refusing to accept that prognosis, he turned to the fields of physics, neurology, and physiology to study the relationship between body and mind.

In the process, he made discoveries that led to his full recovery and the theory of sensory-motor reorganization known around the world as The Feldenkrais Method®.

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