5 Lessons to Improve Your Vision + Thinking

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® is a method of self-improvement created by Moshe Feldenkrais that integrates principles from somatics, human development, physics, learning theory, and neuroscience to improve your abilities to think, sense, feel, move, and organize yourself for effective action. 

Each lesson is designed to leave you with improved self-knowledge, a greater sense of ease and lightness, less pain and strain, a calmer nervous system, and better functioning of your entire self. 

By attuning your awareness to movements and sensations, you catalyze the brain's capacity to forge new neural connections, a process known as "neuroplasticity." Neuroplasticity is stimulated by directing your attention towards new movement possibilities in a precise, gentle and exploratory way. This remarkable brain function underpins all forms of learning.

As you refine your movement strategies, you'll notice enhancements in various aspects of your being including balance, breath, coordination, flexibility, mental acuity, vitality and overall well-being. In this way, the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education works to help people all over the world grow and develop their neuroplastic potential.

Lessons are typically 45 minutes to an hour long. The lesson will require you to listen carefully to a set of verbal instructions, leading you through several different positions and movement explorations. Most lessons are done lying on a yoga mat on the floor but some are done sitting on a chair or standing. During the course of the lesson, you will be asked to pay attention to the very beginning of every movement and listen to your sensations.

The point of the lesson is not to “get it right” or do the movement “correctly,” but instead to figure out where the movement comes from in yourself, build awareness around your habitual ways of acting, and explore new options while get accustomed to slowing down and doing less. It’s an opportunity to build a stronger mind-body connection and learn how to better organize movement within yourself. You will walk away feeling longer, lighter and with new possibilities for movement available to you.

Physical therapy takes what you can't do and makes an exercise out of it. Most physical therapy exercises are based on strength conditioning and address isolated symptoms.Feldenkrais® works to change your habitual ways of moving, which are seen as the root causes of pain and strain. The Method works by engaging the brain, not only the muscles, in a process of learning how to sense effort and organize movement within yourself. It starts with what's working well and focuses on integrating efficient use of the skeleton to improve entire patterns of movement.