Functional Integration
Functional Integration® lessons are individual sessions designed to meet your personal needs. Communicating through touch and movement in addition to words, the teacher guides you in a one-on-one process of self-discovery.
Lying on a table, or in a sitting or standing position, you are led along movement sequences that will help you expand the self-image and enable you to include more of yourself in your movements.
After experiencing Feldenkrais® 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.
The Feldenkrais Method is for anyone who wants to reconnect with their natural abilities to move, think, and feel.
How Does the Feldenkrais Method Differ from Massage and Chiropractic?
While all of these practices touch people, the Feldenkrais Method is very different. In massage, the practitioner is working directly with the muscles, in chiropractic, with the bones. These are structural approaches that seek to affect change through changes in structure (muscles and spine).
The Feldenkrais Method works with your ability to regulate and coordinate your movement, which means working with the nervous system and the whole person.
BENEFITS
Students can benefit from The Feldenkrais Method in various ways.
Overcome anxiety and stress
Access a wider spectrum of inner sensations, feelings and emotions
Create a deeper connection to oneself and to others
Overcome physical and emotional blocks
Improve skills
Release tension
Learn to pay attention to body mind interactions
Improve flexibility and coordination
Restore wellbeing and healthy functioning
Learn to move with less effort
Gain spontaneity
Speak with more confidence
Feel more grounded and embodied
Gain fluidity in feeling and expression
Free the breath
Increase breathing capacity and body awareness
Become aware of unconscious habits, gestures, expressions and postures
Change inefficient habits
Increase mental awareness and creativity