I can't say enough good things about the Feldenkrais Method^™. I believe its made the difference between continuing my competitive running career and retiring prematurely." -Chris Boyd, US National Track Champion

Who can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method^™?

Everyone can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method^™ in some way. This Method is for anyone who wants to make everything they do simpler, easier, and more effective. The Feldenkrais Method^™ helps to bring your awareness to a new level where you can begin to understand how to use your whole self in every action, leading to a more effortless, graceful, and potent way of being.

Why the Feldenkrais Method^™?

The Feldenkrais Method^™ is extremely effective. Quite simply, it works. It is a unique approach in which we focus on what is possible for each person rather than focusing on a person's limitations. This leads to an entirely different approach that allows students to find their abilities and their strengths and use them as effective learning tools. Feldenkrais is easy, safe, and extremely relaxing. Although feldenkrais is known for helping people that are unable to find effective treatment elsewhere, anyone can benefit from feldenkrais lessons. Both athletes and performing artists have seen tremendous results from both Functional Integration^™ lessons and Awareness Through Movement^™ lessons. And best of all, feldenkrais makes learning both easy and fun!

Some benefits of the Feldenkrais Method^™

• Relieve stress, pain, and tension.
• Restore lost function.
• Improve flexibility and posture.
• Renew your sense of vitality, health, and emotional well-being.
• Attain greater ease and pleasure in all of your physical pursuits.
• Become aware of habitual patterns so that new, more effective ways of moving, acting, and feeling can emerge.
• Find a better sense of timing, coordination, and balance as an athlete or performing artist.
• Tap into your brain's natural curiousity to keep your brain fit and flexible.

Why I Became a Feldenkrais^™ Practitioner

Six years ago, I had never even heard of Feldenkrais. I would have been one of the many people saying Feldenwhat?? But then, our beautiful daughter Nora Kate was born and diagnosed with Down Syndrome.

We started right away with all of the typical therapies available through the Early Intervention program. But when Nora Kate began crying hysterically through each of her PT sessions, we knew something needed to change. It was then that we were introduced to the Feldenkrais Method^™, and it is difficult for me to describe how much of a difference this made for Nora Kate.

When we first started taking Nora Kate to New York City for Feldenkrais lessons, I watched as her Feldenkrais practitioner, Marcy Lindheimer, moved her in very gentle ways, but I had no idea what she was doing, really. Then one day, Marcy explained to me that she was working on certain movements so that some day, Nora Kate would be able to stand up in the middle of the room without holding onto anything. You know what? Three hours later, Nora Kate stood up in the middle of my parents' kitchen without holding onto anything! What clearer proof could anyone ask for that these lessons were really working.

I felt so deeply moved by the changes I saw and so grateful that whenever I got the chance, I began to talk to people about Feldenkrais. Then one day as I was sharing my enthusiasm with someone, she turned to me and said, "so why aren't you doing this work?" And to be honest, that thought had never occurred to me. I was, after all, a high school English teacher, not a movement specialist. But that one question changed the course of my life.

Now, after 4 years of intensive study at The Feldenkrais Institute of New York, I can proudly say that I am both a teacher and a movement specialist. And more importantly, I love what I do, and I believe in it wholeheartedly! So, every time someone comes up to me to ask what we have done differently with Nora Kate, I can offer some truly valuable answers, and I now understand very clearly how useful this work is for anyone and everyone.