Feldenkrais
Feldenkrais
The Feldenkrais Method aims to develop consciousness through movement.
Guided in slow and gentle movement sequences, the person listens to his or her body in a lively and organic way.
Grounding supports, breathing and connection between different parts of the body constitute the main axes of the exploration.
This way of listening to every sensation and to the body as a whole helps recreate new links between the neocortex and the body. The neuroplasticity that this method subtlety mobilizes allows the reprograming of a more complete relationship with the body, the environment and one’s self-image through the nervous system.
When we revisit babies movement patterns, which are archaic and deeply inscribed inside us, the body image we build afterwards and affected by bad habits start to deconstruct and reinitiate itself through a natural and spontaneous process.
For dancers, musicians or everyone with a physical injury, Feldenkrais is a prodigious rehabilitation technique.
Where previously there were tensions, muscular contraction and movements carried out with effort, through this method the body regains fluidity, coordination and its anchoring in the ground. Rediscovering the pleasure of moving in harmony and with flexibility as we have all experienced as children. Rediscovering the organic grace and intelligence inherent in the body.
Unfolding of an individual session:
Feldenkrais can be practiced either in group or during individual sessions : it is then called Functional Integration. During such a session, the patient is passive most of the time.
Through a very simple sequence of movements, the practitioner's hands will, above all, ask questions, question the patient's body to understand the unique way he or she moves and how the parts of the body interact with each other. The practitioner mobilizes the body to guide the patient to new postural patterns, nourishing and opening up the entire body structure by offering new possibilities for the joints and the entire nervous system.
