Feldenkrais
AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT

THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD

Most people arrive here because something isn't quite working — a persistent ache, a sense of guardedness in how they move, a feeling of being slightly disconnected from their own body.

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Some come as dancers or athletes looking for a genuine edge. Some come because they're curious about mindfulness and want something more embodied than meditation.

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What makes us distinctly and irreducibly human is the lived body.  Increasingly, as more and more of our cognitive and even social lives becomes mediated by screens, many of us are beginning to feel progressively disembodied and less attuned to the sensory richness of being a physical creature.  Feldenkrais counters that drift.

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What does the Feldenkrais Method specifically offer?

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The method works at the level of the brains body schema - not at the muscles themselves, but at how the nervous system represents and organizes the body.

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Recent neuroscience confirms that the brain changes in response to experience and training and Feldenkrais is essentially a practice of reclaiming somatic intelligence: the awareness of how you are moving, sensing, and organizing yourself in space.

The method trains awareness itself using movement as a means - with benefits to the body being almost a side effect of growing embodied presence.​

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If the brain changes in response to experience, surely any somatic practice might counter this "disembodied" drift?

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Yes!

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We all intuitively understand that gardening, swimming, dancing, exercise, sport, yoga are all a  counterweight to AI's dominance of the cognitive sphere.

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But the Feldenkrais Method is specifically honed to the study of how we inhabit our living bodies - the felt sense of gravity, of what it is to pause, to breathe, to notice the weight of our own limbs, and feel the difference between a movement that takes effort and one that flows.

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It is not about training flexibility, or fitness.  Feldenkrais trains attention. The ability to sense subtle differences, to tolerate not-knowing, to move with curiosity rather than urgency.

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The cultivated ability to sense ourselves from the inside is becoming one of the most radical and necessary capacities a human being can develop.  Not as a retreat from technology, but as an anchor within it.

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You position yourself as a counter to screens, and yet you teach online?

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Ha ha - indeed!  Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons you lie on the floor with your eyes closed while I verbally guide you through simple yet sophisticated movement sequences and prompt you on what to notice.  Online, I can teach you whether you live in Paris or Zimbabwe.  Of course, if you live in Westport, Weston, New Canaan, Darien, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Wilton, Ridgefield, Stamford (or anywhere near those place) you can pop into my studio and participate in a hybrid online and in-person class, or, better yet, come for a private, hands-on, Functional Integration lesson.

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