Movement Disciplines: Feldenkrais Method: What The Feldenkrais Method is
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The Feldenkrais Method® (FM) of somatic education is an educational
system which uses guided movement to increase body awareness and improve the
ease, balance, grace and effectiveness of action. It does this by helping
students become aware of their existing patterns of action and guiding the
student in the discovery of additional possibilities for action.
Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) lessons are the verbally guided group
method, and Functional Integration® (FI) lessons are the hands-on individual
method. ATM group classes consist of slow, gentle exploratory movement sequences,
guided verbally by the instructor, and designed to clarify the nature of specific
movement patterns. In FI, a practitioner uses gentle, non-invasive touch to
help an individual student become aware of how he/she habitually moves and
to suggest alternative movement patterns.
The result of Feldenkrais lessons is a wonderful feeling of smoothness,
lightness and freedom throughout your body.