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I am a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practicioner. I appreciate Dr. Feldenkrais' clinical approach to inviting the body to reclaim movement possibilities that may have been forgotten or lost due to physical, mental, or emotional trauma. Our work centers on the belief that it is integrated movement that improves mobility. Strength arises from efficiency and not repetition of movement informed by habit. Effort does not guarantee success, but awareness will help to regain health.
After a Feldenkrais lesson, I always long to express the new sensations I have of myself in movement. I often imagine myself as other than a human, and drawing or writing about these images helps me to remember the feelings I had. The drawings become like roadmaps for dances where the newly reclaimed aspects of my moving self can be recalled and recreated.
The Feldenkrais@ method is a well known and established form of movement education. Our intention is to enable a student to discover or remember movement possibilities that may have been lost or forgotten due to injury, trauma, or long established habits.
The student is invited to move slowly, often lying on the floor, in non-habitual ways to enable their body to rediscover its forgotten potential and broaden the student's self image.
There is no goal in the classes other than for a student to experience themselves with more ease in movement. Focused possibilities created by inviting the body to move in a non-habitual way create the opportunity for new experiences at all levels of awareness.
When we move in non-habitual ways, new imagery often arises! For example, reaching out with the arms often creates a sense of freedom. A mover may imagine themselves as a bird or kelp or even a tree. These images are the mind's way of expressing experiences that are not easy to document in words.
Time is given explore these images in movement, drawing, and writing. Writing or drawing documentation of an experience provides the opportunity to create a map to memorialize the new experience.
As we move, new starting places arise for departure. Sometimes it is interesting to see another person move our own drawings. There will be opportunities to express and examine the new imagery that arises.
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