Integrated Physical Therapy

Feldenkrais Method

The Feldenkrais method designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness in movement

The Feldenkrais Method is for anyone who wants to reconnect with their natural abilities to move, think and feel. Whether you want to be more comfortable sitting at your computer, playing with your children and grandchildren, or performing a favorite pastime, these gentle lessons can improve your overall well being.

The Feldenkrais Method is an educational system intended to give a greater functional awareness of the self.  The method uses movement and awareness as the primary vehicle for learning.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 artists to administrators and attorneys, can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method.

A central tenet of the Feldenkrais Method is that improving ability to move can improve one's overall well-being. 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.

Who Can Benefit:

• Back strain, chronic back pain, low back pain, thoracic back pain
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Chronic cervical pain
• Complex pain complaints
• Fibromyalgia
• Fibrositis
• Headache
• Myofascial pain dysfunction
• Plantar fasciitis
• Post-Polio symptoms
• Thoracic outlet syndrome
• TMJ dysfunction
• Trigger points, tender points
• Whiplash
• Everybody