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 brain's body schema - not at the muscles themselves, but at how the nervous system represents and organizes the body in space.

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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: a deepening awareness of how you are moving, sensing, and organizing yourself moment to moment in a felt way, guided by ease.

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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Surely any somatic practice - yoga, swimming, dance - might counter this "disembodied" drift?

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

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But the Feldenkrais Method is specifically and exquisitely honed to the study of how we inhabit our living bodies - what happens to our physical and emotional self when we pause, breathe, notice the weight of our own limbs in gravity, and feel the difference between a heavy movement that takes effort and one that is light and easy.

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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 and not achieving, and to move with vibrant 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?​

Ha ha - indeed!  In 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, prompting you to notice what you notice.  Since you only need to hear me, rather than see me, Feldenkrais is particularly well suited to Zoom. And, of course, Zoom means I can teach you whether you live in Paris or Zimbabwe.

If you live nearby in Westport, Weston, New Canaan, Darien, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Wilton, Ridgefield, Stamford, or anywhere close, you are welcome to come my studio and join a hybrid in-person and online class, or, better yet, come for a private hands-on Functional Integration lesson.​​​​

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