Why take Feldenkrais Lessons?

Influenced by yoga and martial arts in the middle of the last century, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais developed a series of lessons designed to improve life through movement. His approach was to encourage conscious attention to small movements. By engaging the brain and nervous system, people learn in a simple, pleasurable way. He summed up his method in the following way:

Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy, elegant.

Learn how to bring more ease into your daily movements: breathing, walking, turning, reaching. Join Susan for Awareness Through Movement® group classes and individual Functional Integration sessions on expanded breathing, safer pelvic movement, freeing your back and more.

Awareness Through Movement® Classes

All group classes are based on 45 minutes lessons, focusing on easy movements, done gently with awareness and many rests, to reeducate the brain, nervous system and muscles.

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"The exercises are so simple and ingenious they lead on to others which one can invent in the same style."
Smithsonian.
Where:
Online group classes using a Zoom meeting link (provided upon reservation and payment).

When:
No group classes at this time.

The Movement Center

Functional Integration® Sessions

Where:
Feldenkrais Center of Portland
Online, NE Portland and Gold Beach, Oregon.

When:
By appointment only. Portland appointments are booked through the Schedule page. For Online and Gold Beach appointments, call or text Susan at 503.313.9813.

Cost:
Portland $130/lesson
Gold Beach $100/lesson
Online $100/lesson

About:
I give Functional Integration® lessons to individuals, on a low treatment table using gentle, subtle, slow touch. During the current time of taking precautions to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, masking is in accordance with the clinic requirements. Also, Online Functional Integration lessons are available. In online sessions, students will be guided through movements and rests to effect a customized change in movement patterns.

While the group classes are more comparable as a cross between yoga and exercise classes, the experience of customized individual sessions is more indescribable, but highly effective.

Often after a Functional Integration lesson, students will be amazed that they feel so different or good. They will say “But you hardly moved me!” This is because a change in your nervous system is more effective when the change is small. This is the opposite of “no pain, no gain.” Introducing a small change into the body’s nervous system has greater longevity.

See the “What is Feldenkrais?” article for more information.