Taking Charge of Your Own Improvement
Discover which learning style is most appropriate for your needs
- group lessons where you are verbally guided through a sequence of gentle movements intended
to develop a greater awareness of how you use yourself
- generally last from 30 to 60 minutes
- these precisely structured movement explorations involve thinking, sensing, moving and imagining
- many are based on developmental movements and ordinary functional activities (reaching, standing, lying to sitting, looking behind yourself, etc.) and some are based on more abstract explorations of joints, muscles, and postural relationships
- there are hundreds of ATM lessons, varying in difficulty and complexity, for all levels of movement ability.
After experiencing Awareness Through Movement lessons, people often express feelings of relaxation and ease. They may breathe more freely and find their thoughts have more clarity. The learning process is full of pleasant surprises and personal breakthroughs.
FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION® LESSONS
Each Functional Integration lesson is designed to meet your personal needs. For these lessons, you, as the student, are fully clothed and maybe lying on a table, sitting or even standing. The practitioner communicates how you organize your body and, through gentle touching and movement, conveys the experience of comfort, pleasure and ease of movement while you learn how to reorganize your body and behavior in new and more expanded functional motor patterns. Functional Integration classes are especially useful for persons who might benefit from more individualized attention.
Regardless of which learning style you choose, the Feldenkrais Method can help you overcome limitations brought on by stress, misuse, accident or illness.
For further information about the Feldenkrais Method or to find a practitioner near you, go to www.feldenkrais.com.
And, if you'd like to experience an audio Awareness Through Movement lesson at home -
Lavinia Plonka's book "Walk Your Talk" and accompanying audio lesseons are a great introduction to the Method. Go to www.laviniaplonka.com.
or a lesson to help reduce the stress of computer useage - click here.
To purchase various CDs, DVDs or MP3 downloads of assorted Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, go to these web-sites -
www.easymovement.com
www.create-a-healthy-flexible-body.com
www.utahfeldenkrais.org
www.houfeldenkrais.com
