Friday 6 June 2025 6.30-8.30 p.m.

What is The Feldenkrais Method?

The Feldenkrais Method® is a form of somatic education that uses touch, movement and directed attention to restore wellbeing and healthy functioning. It enables you to become aware of habitual neuromuscular patterns and rigidities and learn to move in new ways, increasing range of motion and improving flexibility and coordination. It helps you improve skills and overcome limitations brought on by stress, misuse, accident or illness. In this Introductory Workshop you will experience the modality of the method called: Awareness Through Movement (ATM).

What is Awareness Through Movement®?

ATM®lessons are precisely structured movement explorations that involve thinking, sensing, moving, feeling and imagining. By increasing awareness, the student learns to abandon habitual patterns of movement and develop new alternatives, resulting in improved flexibility and coordination. Many lessons are based on developmental movements and ordinary functional activities (reaching, standing, lying to sitting, looking behind yourself, etc.). Some are based on more abstract explorations of joint, muscle and postural relationships.

Who can benefit from the method?

Everyone can benefit; it helps those experiencing chronic or acute pain of the back, neck, shoulders, hips, legs, or knees, as well as healthy individuals who wish to enhance their movement abilities and refine their skills. The Feldenkrais Method works with the ability to regulate and coordinate movement, which means working with the nervous system and the person as a whole. It is for anyone who wants to reconnect with the natural abilities to move, think, and feel.

About Jennifer Blanco

Jennifer Blanco has been teaching the Feldenkrais method since 2015 in Los Angeles, Barcelona and online in the context of holistic health, physical therapy & body work centers. She also teaches Functional Integration and Awareness Through Movement to performers -including musicians, dancers and actors- privately and in the context of dance, theater & music institutions and festivals. She combines her experience as a Feldenkrais® teacher with her knowledge in the field of performing arts -including theater, dance, and music- to help performers improve their body awareness, move with greater ease and overcome physical and emotional blocks that may limit their performance on stage. Her approach focuses on an artistic practice that promotes health, personal growth, and development. The Feldenkrais training program she graduated from is accredited by theEuropean and Israeli Training and Accreditation Board (EuroTab). She is fluent in English, Spanish, Catalan and German and holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication. Find out more about Jennifer here: www.feldenkraiswithjen.com

Location:

Martorell #53, local A
08172 Sant Cugat del Valles, Barcelona

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