Erin Ferguson, MA, GCFP, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® 720.284.4306 | erin@boulderfeldenkrais.com Erin discovered Feldenkrais in 1996 while living and working in New York City. Throughout her life, she had suffered inexplicable chronic pain and tried many therapies, doctors, and methods. She found that the Feldenkrais Method's unique style of learning was the only conventional or alternative approach that helped. The noticeable difference Feldenkrais made in her life affected her deeply, on many levels.Since then, she has taken up the Feldenkrais Method as a practitioner and has been studying movement and sensory-motoric development for over thirteen years. What Erin Offers Working with men and women suffering from chronic pain and movement limitations has produced a wealth of experience she uses to support her clients' learning, leading to greater mobility and fluidity in all areas of life as well as improving physical performance. Erin will support you in integrating new strategies of movement, thought, feeling, and behavior that loosen the knot of painful habits and bring mobility and ease to all areas of your life. In particular, if you feel stuck or find yourself going against the grain (or perhaps seeing the grain for the first time), you might find that this is the precise moment to examine your habits of movement, thought, feeling, and behavior. Often it's the unconscious habits--whether you adopted them while recovering from an injury, dealing with a chronic condition, or living out your choices in life---that create ongoing physical, emotional, or psychological pain. ApproachErin believes that we are all doing everything we possibly can to survive. Therefore, it is not advisable
to "correct" what the nervous system has adopted for its survival.
Rather, the Feldenkrais method supports your nervous system so that you
can learn new strategies for
old habits.
As a practitioner, Erin will not correct your posture or tell you how you "should" sit, stand, reach, or turn. Instead, she will help you
discover your individual pattern of tension and disorganization, and
she will work with you to uncover stability and comfort within your
unique configuration, allowing you to sense your balance and ease from
the inside. Addictions RecoveryErin is working with addictions counselors and eating disorder therapists to help people suffering from drug, alcohol, and food addictions. She has found that using Feldenkrais to integrate experience into one’s body helps align external changes with internal functions such as muscle tone, unconscious movement, breath, and general parasympathetic nervous system responses.This allows people to respond to the external world without getting emotionally dysregulated. It also significantly lowers the chance of making unhealthy or even dangerous choices due to the nervous system getting overwhelmed by the ‘fight or flight’ response. BackgroundErin is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®, licensed by the North American Feldenkrais Guild. After graduating from her four-year training as directed by Dennis Leri, she founded the Tribeca Feldenkrais Center in New York City. Later, she moved to England to pursue Buddhist training, which included a year-long silent meditation retreat in North Wales. While living in London, Erin managed a natural health center and maintained a private Feldenkrais practice. In addition to renewing her certification annually, she has taken over 300 hours of advanced training in sensory-motor skill development and learning. Some things she has focused on are sciatica, whiplash, rib injuries, balance and walking, the spine, and working with children who experience learning challenges. Erin holds an MA in International Affairs from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a BA in Arabic and linguistics from New York University in New York City. She speaks Arabic and has lived in Tunisia, Morocco, and England. Now 39 and living in Boulder, Colorado, since 2007, Erin plans to continue offering Feldenkrais lessons and growing her understanding of the impulses and choices that shape our lives. Home | Classes & Workshops | Private Sessions | About Feldenkrais | About Erin | Testimonials | Success Stories | Articles | Press Erin Ferguson, MA, GCFP | 3333 Iris Avenue, Suite 203 | Boulder, CO 80301 | 720.284.4306 | erin@ boulderfeldenkrais.com |



