Feldenkrais®  Movement Resources

Of Lafayette

 

 

 

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Carla Rock

Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner,

Physical Therapist

 

Carla Rock, MS, PT, GCFP

765-491-4375

Carla.rock@comcast.net

 

  “...make the impossible, possible;               

  the possible, easy; the easy, elegant.”       

Moshe Feldenkrais PhD

 

The Feldenkrais Method is a unique tool for improving the quality of your life; by helping you learn to sense yourself more fully and to move and live with greater ease. 

By using movement combined with focused attention, students develop a clearer and more complete self image as they learn to recognize and respond to their bodies own sensory feedback.  Based in science, The Method draws on neurology, anatomy, engineering and human development. 

 

The Feldenkrais Method taps into each persons innate capacity to learn and improve in ways that expand the repertoire of possible movements, enhances awareness, improves function, and enables people to express themselves more fully.

Better function results as students of The Method improve their ability to organize each part of themselves for well coordinated action.  Indeed, The Method enables people to include, in their functioning, movements and parts of the body which are ordinarily unconsidered, forgotten, or excluded from their everyday actions or self image. 

By allowing people to learn how their whole body cooperates in any movement, The Feldenkrais Method assists people to live their lives more fully, efficiently and comfortably.

 

Students may choose from group Awareness Through Movement® classes, or have private, Functional Integration®, lessons with custom tailored, hands-on instruction.

Both Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration lessons use these learning strategies;

*The focus is on learning new ways of moving and noticing oneself rather than working towards a goal.  It is process oriented rather than outcome oriented.

*Slow and comfortable movement is used which stays within the limits of the students safety by avoiding pain or strain. 

*Awareness and attention are directed towards sensing and noticing differences and inter-connected patterns in movement.

*The movements are done in order to clarify and develop each students potential to move, think, sense and feel themselves more fully and accurately and therefore use themselves, in movement and in life, more according to their intention. 

 

At the core of the Feldenkrais Method is a way of thinking that fosters a process of inquiry rather than one that imposes a particular “how to”. 

Though The Method is not massage, bodywork technique, or medical practice, it does have therapeutic benefits and may function as a complement to medical care.