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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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BoulderFeldenkrais®
Restore your movement. Restore your life.


Private sessions are for anyone who wants to change habitual behavior and replace painful strategies.

Private sessions are called Functional Integration lessons. In a private lesson, a practitioner will guide your movement with their hands. By finding your particular pattern, they can guide you to a very new organization and understanding of alternate action possibilities. This can have a profound and powerful effect.

In particular, private lessons can help you overcome limitations brought on by stress, misuse, accident, or illness. They are always advised for people dealing with pain or those with a complex situation.

Functional Integration can help you: 
  • Relearn movement patterns after an injury has healed
  • Get back to your favorite activity, like golf, gardening, or skiing
  • Improve performance and efficiency in swimming, biking, dancing, or running
  • Learn how to move with ease and prevent injuries at work
  • Change habits such as smoking, drinking, or overeating 
  • End the stoop in your shoulders
  • Eliminate the aches, pains and discomfort of daily tasks
  • Access a more creative, powerful, and spontaneous response to the world
  • Learn easier ways to walk, sit, stand, reach, turn, and breathe
  • Reduce the movement challenges faced by Parkinsons, MS, polio, or stroke sufferers
Improvement happens regardless of structural limitations, such as fused bones, herniated discs, or joint replacements. This is because new sensory-motor skills can be acquired at any age, in any condition. If you have a brain, you can learn.

"After my spinal surgery at age 70 I thought that holding my back as stationery as possible was the best way the avoid pain. What an astonishing concept to realize that movement of the body was actually beneficial!! And Erin is a marvelous teacher; she proceeds at the pace you request and always explains the reason for what she is doing."
--S. Schaefer, Boulder, CO


The non-invasive, educational approach of Feldenkrais can help with:
  • stroke
  • Parkinson's disease
  • plantar fasciitis
  • insomnia
  • bad knees
  • chronic tension
  • recovery from surgery
  • MS
  • fibromyalgia
  • neurological conditions
  • arthritis
  • learning disorders
  • addictions and body image concerns
  • aches and pains
  • injuries or joint replacement
  • anxiety
  • sensory integration disorder

What about dancers, musicians, and athletes?

Allowing uninhibited force to travel through the skeleton improves mental and physical responsiveness and coordination in athletes, musicians, dancers, actors, and other creative disciplines as well. Feldenkrais has successfully improved performance in runners, treated repetitive stress in musicians, and increased efficiency in golfers, skiiers, cyclists, and others. Ultimately, reorganizing your movement habits can reorganize how you think and how you live your life.

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An Example of Feldenkrais: Bending 

A chef comes in to see a Feldenkrais practitioner. He needs to bend down to get things out of the oven over 50 times an evening, yet he is bending in a way that causes strain. Because he wants to keep working, he is interested in learning how to move without this strain.
 In the session, the practitioner gently moves his skeleton to clarify new ways for him to relate to bending, ways he cannot access through his own long-standing habits. When he comes to sitting, the practitioner helps him translate what he learned into being upright, then into standing. In all orientations the chef learns, "I can bend this way. It doesn't hurt!"

Bending now begins with a different impulse in his brain. And he can breathe easier, stand taller, and move from the center. He has learned to counter-balance his pelvis with his head and use all his joints at once. He can continue to cook for many years to come with this newfound understanding.

Other examples of Feldenkrais lessons include:
  • Jazz pianists relating power in the hands to flexibility in the spine and pelvis
  • Trail runners discovering how movement in the torso supports the legs
  • Dancers changing their impulse to tense when they do a particular move
  • An 85 year-old violinist with a stroke affecting the right side being able to play again
  • Climbers sensing the efficiency of sliding the shoulder blade as the spine bends
  • Bikers translating the total power of their skeleton to the movement of the pedals
  • Car accident survivors learning how to turn with the whole spine, not just the neck

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