Connect Massage and Movement

Maximize healing -- maintain youthfulness

A variety of massage therapy styles help heal injuries, resolve health conditions, integrate primitive reflexes, and promote overall wellness. Combining massage and physical therapy has worked well with MS patients. Thai Yoga Massage combines movement and massage to stretch muscles and boost the immune and circulatory systems, getting the synovial fluids and lymphatic system flowing. Infant massage and movement stimulates neurological develop speeding myelination of the brain/nervous system. Chinese medical body work Tuina Massage, uses pulling and plucking and Feldendrais offers natural effortless movements. Let’s combine massage and movement techniques, creating a powerful means to maximize our living and learning potential.

Movement Nature Meant # 2 (video)

Wisdom of Stomach/Back Balance

Ruthy Alon demonstrates restorative potential of natural movements. Experiment with your body’s natural movements. Develop a wise stomach… let go of your hard abs! Listen to the relationships of your body to the ground. Don’t sacrifice your comfort. Keep your stomach soft.

Enjoy arching movements that release the full length of your body. Feel pulsating rhythm of motion having fun with Feldenkrais.

Explore Movement through Feldenkrais (video)

Awareness through Movement for

Vitality, Creativity, and Comfort

Are you experiencing tension, anxiety, pain, tiredness, lack of focus, or diminished creativity? Explore your own movements through Feldenkrais, a method that combines anatomy, physiology with physics, mechanics and martial arts to understand and optimize movements for increased vitality and youthfulness.

Watch the video or read Marissa Harshman's article 'Exploring Movement with the Feldenkrais Method'. You will learn how to move more seamlessly and effortlessly. Experience the effect of your body on your brain as movement soothes and refreshes your mindbody.

Richard Goldsand's article makes 'Awareness Though Movement', a key Feldenkrais approach, easy to understand.

Feldenkrais Fitness Comfort

Can a fitness exercise program feel this good?

Sara Reistad-Long writing for ThatsFit.com relates her first experience with Feldenkrais, a series of ‘awareness through movement’ exercise routines developed by Moshe Feldenkrais who studied ways our bodies can function with greater ease and skill.

More articles appear on Feldendrais.com. I have experienced Feldenkrais and need to return to this revitalizing practice.

Active Sitting

Rid back, neck and shoulder pain caused by sitting

Mary Newell’s article posted on a leading Feldenkrais website shows the importance of regularly attending to your sitting position while at the computer, especially if you sit for extended periods of time. Have you noticed back, shoulder or neck pain recently? Then use a dynamic sitting position. The Feldenkrais method is worthy of your time and attention,