YOUR BODY ISN'T BROKEN - IT JUST WANTS TO MOVE SMARTER
by Bryce Mathern, Feldenkrais Instructor

Do you wake up in the morning with an achy body? Do you experience low-back pain or tightness in your shoulders and neck? Do you find yourself limiting what you do in your life out of fear that you will exacerbate an old, lingering injury?

The Feldenkrais method for Somatic Education may be just what you need to find your way back to living a more vibrant life in a pain free body.

FELDENKRAIS RETURNS YOUR BODY TO ITS NATURAL MOVEMENT PATTERNS

The Method is based on the idea that form follows function. We all function - standing, sitting, walking, reaching -  in various ways based on different emotional and physical life experiences. Over time we begin losing connection to the more organic, spontaneous ways of moving we developed early in life, becoming stiff and tense with age.

A specific example would be a knee injury - a very common occurrence that can have lasting effects on other parts of your body. It is natural and helpful to begin putting increased weight on the healthy leg when you injure yourself in order to reduce the pressure and pain on the injured knee. However, after the injured knee has healed, the body will often remain stuck in the same misaligned movement pattern, creating discomfort in the once healthy leg, the hips, and/or the low back.

The Feldenkrais Method can help anyone who has experienced physical and even emotional injury find their way back to moving in a more natural, integrated and agile way. The founder, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, believed that by changing the way we function, that is remedying unhealthy movement patterns, we can begin to shift the body to a more natural, pain free way of living.

Through very gentle, non invasive exercises Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement classes challenge the brain to shift imbalanced movement patterns, creating more efficient, intelligent, ease-filled movement. Lessons are sequences of comfortable, easy movements involving thinking, sensing, moving and imagining and are for people of all ages and ability, improving your overall well being by learning to move with greater ease.

Dr. Feldenkrais was a physicist who worked with the Nobel Prize winning nuclear physicist Joliot-Curie. In addition to physics, Dr. Feldenkrais studied engineering and was a black-belt in Judo, two lines of study that contributed to his transformational movement techniques. He began teaching his popular method to people in the United States in the 1970's.

I will begin offering ongoing Tuesday/Thursday classes at Yoga On Beacon starting September 16th, 8:15 - 9:15am.

Bryce Mathern finished his Feldenkrais practitioner training in 2006. He believes that Awareness Through Movement classes are a wonderful way to bring about healing in the human experience. By opening up to new somatic patterns the possibility for change arises. This change happens in the whole self, healing our heart, mind and soul. In each Feldenkrais lesson taught in ATM classes he helps students make the somatic connections that allow them to find their personal wholeness. Bryce has also been studying yoga for 5 years and has an active practice, having completed the 8 Limb's Yoga Teacher Training in 2004.

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