How to Practice Feldenkrais
The Feldenkrais method, commonly used by actors, singers and dancers to aid self-awareness and body movement, can improve movement and function for all kinds of people. An educational system based on the precept that movement increases health, creative and social ability, it's classified as an alternative therapy and is used to help people with cerebral palsy and other movement-impaired individuals function better.
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Study Functional Integration. This method focuses on various body movement patterns. Speech, the way you touch someone's shoulder, the way you point at an object, the way your walk, impact your motor-body functions as a whole and impacts your health, appearance and relationships with others.
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Learn about awareness through movement. This method uses a series of movements that increase the function of joints and muscles and decreases stress. The range of movement grows naturally through repeated exercises.
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Use Feldenkrais methods to overcome a temporary or permanent physical disability. By changing the way you move your hand, flex your wrist or sit at a computer, you can alleviate pain, improve posture or boost your energy level. If you work at a computer all day, use the new movements you learned in Feldenkrais to prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from forming.
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Interact with others in an appropriate way, using and varying the tone of voice or the firmness of touch depending on the situation. Learn how to read non-verbal signals effortlessly to achieve this.
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Do Feldenkrais exercises such as the "pencil on the nose." In this exercise you draw a circle by pretending there is a pencil on the tip of your nose. In an exercise like this, you become aware of how the neck, elbows and other parts of your body move in addition to your head and nose when you draw the "circle."
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The Feldenkrais method, commonly used by actors, singers and dancers to aid self-awareness and body movement, can improve movement and function for all kinds of people. An educational system based on the precept that movement increases health, creative and social ability, it's classified as an alternative therapy and is used to help people with cerebral palsy and other movement-impaired individuals function better.
1
Study Functional Integration. This method focuses on various body movement patterns. Speech, the way you touch someone's shoulder, the way you point at an object, the way your walk, impact your motor-body functions as a whole and impacts your health, appearance and relationships with others.
2
Learn about awareness through movement. This method uses a series of movements that increase the function of joints and muscles and decreases stress. The range of movement grows naturally through repeated exercises.
3
Use Feldenkrais methods to overcome a temporary or permanent physical disability. By changing the way you move your hand, flex your wrist or sit at a computer, you can alleviate pain, improve posture or boost your energy level. If you work at a computer all day, use the new movements you learned in Feldenkrais to prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from forming.
4
Interact with others in an appropriate way, using and varying the tone of voice or the firmness of touch depending on the situation. Learn how to read non-verbal signals effortlessly to achieve this.
5
Do Feldenkrais exercises such as the "pencil on the nose." In this exercise you draw a circle by pretending there is a pencil on the tip of your nose. In an exercise like this, you become aware of how the neck, elbows and other parts of your body move in addition to your head and nose when you draw the "circle."
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