Helen - Inner Freedom with the Feldenkrais Method®

Testimonial from a client with chronic pain

"When I first heard of the Feldenkrais Method® I was hurting "all over" and stiff, or that's how it seemed. I wondered how I was going to end up and felt there had to be something as well as medication and injections that could make my life and movements easier.

So not knowing a thing about "this Feldenkrais" nor what it entailed I made an appointment with a practitioner who was recommended to me by a friend. I almost ran to the appointment hoping for and expecting instant relief from heat and other treatments I'd had before. Imagine my disappointment and wonder when all I did for one hour was give her my history, learn about my skeleton and how it worked, how to breathe and what breathing did to my body---AH! This was the first time I had ever acknowledged my body as a working instrument.

I had to wait five weeks for my next appointment as my practitioner was away on a training program. I had become interested enough to wait to see what was next.

At the first session I had learned something about standing, sitting and walking, bending and picking up and that carried me through. The following months have been a revelation as I have worked one-to-one, and all year with a group "Awareness Through Movement" class with these wonderful, to me, new ideas about movement and the awareness I have gained about my body and how it works and responds to movement, both "right" and "wrong". It has given me what I was looking for: ease of movement, less stiffness and almost no pain. I have decreased my medication dramatically and have not had any injections since I commenced.

Not only has Feldenkrais given me more freedom and awareness physically, it seems also to have given me more inner freedom. I have this year started art classes and I feel painting and Feldenkrais somehow meld together in awareness and freedom of spirit."