How I help my clients: Reduce pain, live life.

 

1. Reduce Pain

People most often come to me with a chronic movement limitation, physical complaint, or a seemingly immutable experience of stress and tension after they have tried everything else and feel desperate and in need of hope. So the first step is reducing pain. When you finally feel something shift it is such a relief. Over and over again I have seen Feldenkrais offer hope to people in extremely challenging circumstances.

2. Find Clarity

After working together, it often emerges that my clients want to change something deeper and more powerful in their lives. So the next step is learning to sense your own patterns without judgment so that movement, thought, and action can become coordinated and fluid. When you have more clarity about where you are in space, you have more choice about where you are going. After all, if you don't know where you are now, it's hard to find the road that will take you somewhere else!

Because inner conflict is represented by muscular tension, when thought and action no longer struggle against each other in a muscular tango of tension and holding it awakens a sense of wholeness and joy.

Practicing Feldenkrais can help you:

  • Reduce chronic pain

  • Recover faster from injury

  • Restore lost movement

  • Improve performance

  • Let go of habitual reactions

  • Feel refreshed, relaxed, and focused

3. Engage with habits in a different way

How did you lose your original freedom of movement? Through long-term habits. As you develop habits, you often block yourself from doing things in the simplest and most efficient way. Your habits may stem from any number of causes, including:

  • injury

  • pain

  • surgery

  • disease

  • stress

  • fatigue

  • insomnia

  • poor self-use

  • emotional trauma

  • not knowing what the skeleton is capable of

  • lack of awareness of possibilities for movement

To help you engage with your habits in a different way, I am always responding to what you need at that moment. As you notice your patterns and begin to shift out of them more and more, you find that decision-making feels easier and life is less stressful.

Old patterns drift into the distance, new habits bring ease, flow, and a generosity of being.

 
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