Experience Feldenkrais

Free Introduction
Wondering if Feldenkrais might help? Check it out Wednesday, September 22nd, 5:30pm. Or contact Erin for a free consultation, 720.284.4306 or erin@boulderfeldenkrais.com.

Group Classes
Awareness Through Movement®

Tuesday 11:30am
Thursday 11:30am & 5:30pm
Three-minute video: How to do a Feldenkrais lesson

Private Sessions

Private Functional Integration® sessions are offered at Erin's office. Call 720.284.4306 for a consultation. 

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What happens in a group class?

In group classes you will be directed through a series of gentle, non-invasive movements that grow increasingly complex. At the same time, you are asked to pay attention to specific sensory feedback focusing on your exploration of movement, breath, muscle tone, and skeletal alignment. 

This type of learning de-habituates the familiar sensory-motor pathways in your brain. It provides new coordination and skill while leaving you relaxed, refreshed, and focused.

How do these lessons work?

Often the lessons are like puzzles in which you figure out how to move around fixed constraints. This prompts the nervous system to activate a different muscle pattern than what you usually use. As a result, habitual muscle tension releases and you sense the stability of a balanced skeleton. Your breathing becomes freer, walking lighter, and eyes clearer. New kinesthetic perception is acquired, and you find you can move in ways that you previously thought were restricted.

In fact, moving with minimum effort and maximum ease happens not through muscular strength, but through increased awareness of how the body works. Your attitude of curiosity and exploration can bring about a major change in your habitual movement and experience. It can also improve your ability to perform daily tasks, whether you're lifting
up your child, putting away the dishes, or training for a marathon.

Why does being curious help?

Have you ever watched a baby learn to roll over? Children learn to move by exploring their environment, not by saying to themselves, "today's the day I'm going to roll over!" As adults, we have forgotten this curiosity. Usually , we tell ourselves to "sit up straight!", "quit hunching!", or "hold your head up!"

However, improvement does not happen through a top-down edict issued to yourself from the front of the brain. Telling yourself how to move is like saying, "Okay, 1-2-3 relax!" It doesn't work if your habit, protective pattern, tension, or injury, is saying otherwise.

In Feldenkrais, your nervous system doesn't learn if you are mean to it. Here, you will use your ability to sense your own skeleton to uncover the logical connection between your center of gravity and ease of movement--all without engaging the same old habits!

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