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The Individual Session is a personalized process focused on your current needs and desired improvements. We begin with a conversation to understand your situation, followed by a customized approach that adapts to your specific circumstances. It’s important to note that Feldenkrais is an educational, not medical, process, offering a unique, awareness-based method for improving movement patterns and overall well-being.
Feldenkrais focuses on increasing awareness of your movement patterns and the factors influencing them. It helps you become more sensitive to how you move, learn how your body is designed to function, and adopt movement patterns that enhance comfort, balance, and efficiency. The goal is to help you feel grounded, safe, and free to move with ease and effectiveness.
One balance strategy is called “Long on the weighted side.” It means that on the weighted side, here the right side, the upper body —
including the ribs, arm, and even the ear — elongate away from the waist; and the hip and leg sink down. also away from the waist. On the unweighted side, here the left, it is the inverse: upper and lower body scrunch up toward the middle.
In this sequence you become more aware of the counterbalancing sensations of expansion and contraction. These are shifts around the front-to-back axis, called in math Z.
Another interesting move is called “Making the knee light.” A twist in the torso makes it easier to raise the leg. In one variation, the head looks back; in another, forward. This sequence helps to develop an awareness of the counterbalances around the vertical axis, called in math Y.
Coming down to the floor, a move that will round the back begins by placing a hand on a foot. Bending movements like these are around the horizontal axis, called in math X.
Moves like this are common in infancy and childhood, but, for most people, not in the adult repertoire. Revisiting this as an adult can take years off your age!
Something that feels good is to send the knees one way and the upper body the other. Here, the lower body is turning left, and the upper body is sliding right.
A move like this brings welcome mobility to a spine that doesn’t want to hunch.
The ballet barre has numerous uses, including being helpful as one explores squatting.
Sitting as much as we do keeps the hip joints at a fixed angle. Squatting is revitalizing.
Using the table makes it easier for me to stand and guide the arms and body to the left.
We are exploring a rolling coordination where the head and neck move in synch with the torso and legs. The experience of partnership while lying on the back can help the neck feel more at ease when the body is upright.
Another theme is to push through a foot and look for the “kinetic chain”. When all is going well, yes, the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone, and the impulse from below passes smoothly upward.
A movement on the side uses the ribs, legs and hips to help motor the arm upward.
A common Feldenkrais approach is to look for how the teamwork of the whole body can restore ease to a single part that has become uncomfortable.
Sitting up after having been on the table and feeling effortlessly good posture!
Good posture, for so many people, is lying right beneath the surface, just waiting to reappear once the unnecessary tensions have let go.
We look at the calendar and choose a date for the next session.
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Individual sessions can be taken alone or with group classes; a session before a group class is recommended, especially for chronic or acute conditions.
The number of sessions varies; starting with one session is common, with more sessions as needed based on initial improvements.
Wear loose, comfortable clothing, preferably without textured patterns or designs, and bring clean socks.
Feldenkrais is not covered by insurance, but Flexible Medical Spending Account reimbursements are possible.
Feeling good when you move, and naturally expressing the vitality of your life in movement.
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Maureen McHugh, Feldenkrais Practitioner