The Feldenkrais Method is a way to enhance one's well-being and personal development through improving the ability to move. Learning, change and improvement are achieved through the use of specific skilled manipulation and passive movements, individualized for the client’s particular needs.
The Method was developed by Moshé Feldenkrais, D.Sc.,(1904-1984), who synthesized insights from physics, motor development, bio-mechanics, psychology, and martial arts to develop a powerful, effective, and practical application, demonstrating the inseparableness of thought, feeling, perception and action.
"Feldenkrais work is a system of movement, floor exercises, and body work designed to retrain the central nervous system, particularly to help it find new pathways around any areas of blockage or damage. Feldenkrais work is innovative, gentle and often strikingly effective at rehabilitating victims of trauma, cerebral palsy, stroke, and other serious disabilities." Dr. Andrew Weil Spontaneous Healing, pg. 297)
"This [Feldenkrais] is the most sophisticated and effective method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function. We're condemning millions of people to a deteriorated old age that's not necessary." — Margaret Mead