Feldenkrais® Method - Movement & Awareness Education

Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education

Erica Trivett teaches the Feldenkrais® Method in person at Fairview Osteopathy or online two times weekly at 10am PST via zoom.

The Feldenkrais® Method was developed by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. It is based on his understandings of the neuroplasticity of the brain, awareness, learning, and developmental movement. The nutshell answer is awareness through movement yet hardly satisfies those wondering what it is the Feldenkrais® Method.

The Feldenkrais® Method has a wide range of benefits in physical and mental well-being.  Many people come to a Feldenkrais® practitioner because they wish to ease a physical pain, understand habits, recover from an injury or a neurological condition.  But the Feldenkrais® Method is much more than an advanced form of physical therapy.  It is based on a sophisticated understanding of the human nervous system that helps students continuously improve their functioning in all areas of life.

The Feldenkrais® Method uses learning in the way that babies learn: through exploring movement and sensing the environment to learn and progress in development. For a baby that may be reaching for a toy and bringing it to the mouth, but for an adult, that may be learning to play a sport better, becoming a better actor or dancer, living a pain-free life, increasing productivity at work, or finding harmony in movement at home.  Many students of the Feldenkrais® Method find their physical and non-physical problems spontaneously disappearing or shifting as they increase their self-awareness.

Feldenkrais® lessons empower people to take charge of one’s own improvement and are offered in two ways: group classes, called Awareness Through Movement®, and one-on-one lessons, called Functional Integration®.

Whether in group classes, private lessons or both, the Feldenkrais® Method can provide strategies to overcome limitations caused by stress, misuse, accident or illness.