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Why Feldenkrais is for You
The best reason to do Feldenkrais came from one of our students:
"It makes everything easier!"
From rolling out of bed in the morning, to turning around to park your car, to facing a difficult task, the Feldenkrais Method® can help you spontaneously organize to move through life with more grace and ease. The Feldenkrais Method helps you to discover capacities and abilities rather than define problems or disabilities.
Feldenkrais can help:
- People with chronic or acute pain of the back, neck, shoulder, hip, legs or knee
- People suffering from central nervous system conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and stroke
- Seniors who wish to retain or regain their ability to move without strain or discomfort
- Musicians, actors, and artists who want to extend their abilities and enhance their creativity
- Healthy people who wish to enhance their self-image, increase their ease and range of motion, improve their flexibility and coordination, and rediscover their innate capacity for graceful, efficient movement.
Many have benefited from the Feldenkrais Method.
Successful Students: here are examples of recent successes students have accomplished after work with the Feldenkrais Method:
- a 42 year old computer programmer with incipient wrist problems is able to increase his speed on the keyboard after learning how to use his arms and hands more efficiently.
- a 28 year old woman goes through her third pregnancy, but the first one without back pain.
- a 55-year old woman is able to lift her affectionate 2 year old granddaughter without straining her back.
- a 40-year old cellist becomes so creative in developing new, less strained positions to play in that she able to extend her musical repetoire.
- a 9-year old with learning disabilites can read a full page competently and gains self-confidence in his intelligence.
- a 19-year old diver is able to visualize and perform the complex series of movements needed to accomplish an intricate endeavor more proficiently.
- a 78-year old man walks a mile daily, free of chronic knee pain he's had for 30 years.
- a 32-year old man learns to reuse his hands after a crippling auto accident.
Celebrities who have enjoyed the benefits of Feldenkrais include:
Willie Nelson, singer/song writer
Julius Erving, basketball star
Rick Acton, PGA golfer
Duffy Waldorf, PGA golfer
Norman Cousins, journalist/editor
Margaret Mead, anthropologist
David Ben-Gurion, former Israeli Prime Minister
Helen Hayes, actress
Whoopi Goldberg, actress
Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
Yo Yo Ma, cellist
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