Feldenkrais ® Method

"Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant." Moshe Feldenkrais

class schedule

 Introductory Feldenkrais Video

Biography of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais

The Feldenkrais Method is a unique way of using the body as the primary means for transformative learning. Created by the brilliant and distinguished physicist, engineer, martial artist and author, Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), the method was developed and refined over 40 years. This somatic educational method was developed out of Moshe's lifelong study of the human nervous system's structure and function. The Feldenkrais Method employs two modalities: Functional Integration, a one-on-one session individualized to the particular person, which employs gentle and skilled hands-on touch including passive movements and body manipulation. It serves to resolve aches and pains, and more serious musculo-skeletal or neurological problems, as well as developmental problems in children, through helping the client to learn more effective ways of being in the body. The second modality is called Awareness Through Movement and consists of verbally guided movement sequences, each specifically designed with a unique intended effect. ATM is based on a great respect for and engagement of the natural, deep intelligence of the body. 

 After years exploring somatic education through tai chi, yoga, and various forms of body-based therapies, both of us were blown away by the effectiveness and pleasurable quality of this incredible method. We have completed a  a 4-year training program in Santa Fe and are guild certified Feldenkrais practitioners. We are honored and delighted to share this profound system of body-based awareness training.

"How can a movement be improved? Is the extension of range of movement the only component that can be considered an improvement? The functional approach is interested in the degree of ease with which you can experience that range of movement; in the level of harmony among all the parts of the body coordinated in the action and in the attitude which accompanies the activity so that movement is not perceived as a coercion of arbitrary exercise but rather as a natural gesture."

-Ruthy Alon