”Learning to think in patterns of relationships … allows us to find hidden resources and the ability to make new patterns...In short we think personally, originally, and thus take another route to the thing we already know.” – Moshe Feldenkrais, D. Sc.

The Feldenkrais Method® consists of two modalities for learning: Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration®. In either modality, the purpose is to help you expand your capacities to give you a choice in action. Habitual patterns that you are unaware of, as in brushing your teeth, can be a great time saver and yet it can  limit your discovery and use of new options that might be more efficient. The idea is to bring to consciousness that which is unconscious – so you can create options in ways that give you more than one choice.

Learning means giving time and attention and discrimination to subtle differences in our behavior and movement patterns.”  Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc.

Awareness Through Movement®
A practitioner uses verbal language to guide you through movement sequences.  He/she guides your attention and thinking to various points of the action. The purpose is for the participant to 'think' movement in terms of the skeleton moving and learn to discover more efficient options for action and thought. Mostly you are lying down, away from gravity's force ,sitting, or standing against the wall.  The focus is on HOW you do the movements more than the movement itself. You learn to do LESS in order to understand more.

“The movement lessons are designed to take the attention away from a problem, but on the other hand to increase what Moshe calls awareness. Awareness in this sense is a kinesthetic knowing, a way of feeling the pattern that is needed. The lessons have no content about what is correct, but contain processes that allow you, perhaps for the first time, to feel and experience what is correct for yourself.” Carl Ginsburg – The Master Moves

Functional Integration®.
These are sessions/lessons that address your specific needs. Feldenkrais® Practitioners most often use touch and support to heighten your awareness and help you sense that the more you can move sequentially through the whole body and distribute your efforts, the lighter and easier you can move and the less pressure you put on your joints.  Together, you and the practitioner co-create new movement experiences which translates into lighter, easier, more balanced actions. By experiencing a new possibility, you begin to seek and explore new possibilities on an ongoing basis.