What is Feldenkrais? A Guild Survey says…

A new animation from Europe takes on the question: What is the Feldenkrais Method? This longer form with movement is right on.

How to describe the Feldenkrais Method?

Describing the Method has challenged practitioners for a long time. How to define a practice so deep and wide in a few short, marketable words?

The Guild recently put out a call for definitions. Here are excerpts from some that I particularly liked. How do they resonate with you:

• By finding more “pixels” in the image of yourself, you can improve pain, efficiency, flexibility, posture, and balance.  It allows people to rediscover an ease and grace in movement that they may have lost. - Emma Alter – London, UK – themovingbrain.com

• The “goal” of moving is to enjoy and feel the openness and the curiosity of yourself and the world. - Helena Dahlberg – Gothenburg, Sweden – www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/helenadahlberg

• The Method re-educates and reconnects your nervous system back to neural pathways of movement that it already knows but has forgotten  - Ismini Poaros – Tonbridge, UK – www.isministudios.com

• Feldenkrais is an invitation to peek under the hood of the elusive “body mind” connection. Michelle Westlaken – Cupertino, CA. USA – s3nse.org

• Rather than focusing on strength, Feldenkrais® emphasizes learning and reorganizing the nervous system to create more efficient and comfortable ways to move.  - Ulrika Felländer – Stokholm, Sweden – medveten.nu

• The autonomic nervous system regulates the vegetative functions of the body. Movement in this system is organic, simple, smooth and effortless. Our voluntary movements can be jerky and uncoordinated by comparison. The Feldenkrais Method aims to bring the organic, well-organized quality of autonomic movement to our conscious actions…Alan Fraser – Belgrade, Serbia – www.alanfraserinstitute.com