 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:
"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:
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. More on improving performance... Articles on Feldenkrais and sports... An Example of Feldenkrais: BendingA 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:
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