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Awareness Through Movement®
Tuesday, 11:30am
Friday 12:00noon
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June Workshop: Find Your Upright Spine
with Erin Ferguson and Al Wadleigh
Saturday and Sunday afternoon, June 8 & 9
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Next free intro: Sunday, June 2, 1:00pm
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Saturday Workshops, 1-4:30pm
Liberate the Upper Back, July 13
More Poise, Less Stress, August 17
$55 each, two for $90 More info

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Working with a Feldenkrais practitioner can help you overcome limitations brought on by stress, misuse, accident, or illness. You will discover that you can walk, sit, stand, reach, turn, and breathe easier. In addition, because the Feldenkrais Method focuses on the relationship between movement and thought, increased mental awareness and creativity accompany physical improvements.

You might want to try a private lesson if you:
  • want to maintain or regain flexibility, ease of movement and reduce the effects of stress
  • have physical discomfort, injuries, pain, stress, disabilities, or neurological conditions
  • are interested in becoming more aware of your embodied experience
  • are an athlete, performer, artist, or movement teacher who wants to discover new patterns
In private Functional Integration® lessons movements are communicated through precise, gentle touch custom-tailored to your unique configuration at that particular moment. You will be guided through slow, safe movements that provide new learning to the neuromuscular system. Improvement happens regardless of structural limitations such as fused bones, herniated discs, or joint replacements. New sensory-motor skills can be acquired at any age, in any condition.

Private sessions may be combined with group classes and personal support and tailored homework from Erin to address chronic problems and create new patterns that will save your joints for a lifetime.

Rates:

  • Three sessions: $240 ($80/session)
  • Six sessions: $450 ($75/session)  
  • Eight sessions: $560 ($70/session)
  • Missed appointment fee: $40

Note: payment for packages of six or eight sessions can be made in two parts.

Refer a friend and receive 20% off your next session!

Cancellation and refund policy: please give 24 hours notice or there is a $40 charge. Packages and punch cards are non-refundable, however they are transferable. Thank you.
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To make an appointment or ask questions, call 720.284.4306 or email erin@boulderfeldenkrais.com.

Feldenkrais lessons are the best thing I ever did for my back pain. I like my chiropractor, but I have to keep going back to get an adjustment. I learned things in Feldenkrais lessons that gave me the ability to solve my own problems. Unlike most other healing disciplines, you might walk away from your lessons empowered and able to solve your own problems instead of dependent on someone you need to see each week.  --Jeremy, Golden, CO

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

Feldenkrais Learning Programs

Good health means nothing if you are in constant pain. No matter how well you eat or how many times you go to the gym, if you throw your back out picking up the groceries you are not living out your full potential. 

You can stop being ruled by painful habits. You have a choice in how you move through your life. Whether pain and discomfort is caused by injury, surgery, disease, trauma, accident, poor self-use, too much use, inefficient use, or a lifetime of painful habits. If you have a brain, you can learn.

I will customize a program for you that includes private sessions, group classes, and individualized audio lessons along with phone and email support. This is an investment of at least 3 hours per week (or more if you can) and between $1,000-$2,000. We will work together to develop the right approach for your lifestyle and learning. Your health and well-being are worth it. 

If you have any questions or to make an appointment, call 720.284.4306 or email erin@boulderfeldenkrais.com.

Six-month program:

Three-month program:

What to Expect

Please wear comfortable clothing or bring some to change into. Expect to spend about an hour and fifteen minutes at the first lesson. You will be fully clothed, lying on a low, padded table, or sometimes in a sitting or standing position. The learning process doesn't involve anything forceful or invasive. Through precise touch your skeleton will be supported as the teacher works with your unique configuration and conditioning to invite new connections and release chronic holding. Functional Integration lessons are considered an educational modality and are not a substitute for medical treatment or diagnosis.

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 new-found 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

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.