What is Feldenkrais Method?
The Feldenkrais Method is a movement and hands-on techniques used by physical therapists around the world. The method reeducates motor patterns by integrating muscle groups into one function so everything better better. Benefits include flexibility, pain relief, and increased vitality.
The Method:
-
Teaches awareness of a "sensory body," a sense that integrates functions between parts: mental, movement, senses, and brain.
-
Used for chronic pain or acute injury, movement disorders such as stroke, cerebral palsy, and brain function such as ADHD
-
Trains awareness of a sixth sense that once recognizes differences in physical responses and intention has shown to boost flexibility, slow aging and improve immune function.
-
Techniques use Hands-on or movement lessons
-
Method is Based on the science of physics and human development.
Feldenkrais Articles (with respect to authors articles are not attached)
Dalia Sofer,
Health Map Magazine
The Feldenkrais Method
Liz Brody, The Los
Angeles Times
Exercise
in Awareness
Elizabeth Kaufman, American Way Magazine
All
the Right Moves
Liz Brody, The Los Angeles Times
Exercise in Awareness
Elizabeth Kaufman,
American Way Magazine
All the Right Moves
Science on Sensorimotor Systems Articles
Dav Clark, Frank Schumann and Stewart Mostofsky, Berkley, Universite Paris Descartes, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Mindful movement and skilled attention | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Catherine Kerr, Brown University
Mindfulness Starts with Body Somatosensory Attention
Cisek and Kalaska , D´epartement de Physiologie, Universit´e de Montr´eal,
Neural Mechanisms for Interacting with a World Full of Action Choices
Akira Murataa,∗, Wen Wenb, Hajime Asamab, Japan Universities,
The Body and Objects Represented in the Ventral Stream of the Parieto-Premotor Network