Feldenkrais Method® Facts Bundle

The Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education is a powerful and revolutionary approach to improving your life that uses gentle, mindful movement to bring new awareness into every aspect of your life. Developed by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the Feldenkrais Method has helped millions of people worldwide.

Whether you’re a Feldenkrais Method® practitioner or just want to share the benefits of this mindful movement practice, this is a great bundle of images to share on social. Use it to educate your audience on the Feldenkrais Method® and its benefits.

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The Feldenkrais Method® Facts Bundle includes 20 beautiful pieces of visual content:

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1. The Feldenkrais Method® is a neurological process to coordinate movement and function better.
2. The Feldenkrais Method® was developed throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s by Ukrainian scientist Moshe Feldenkrais. In his words: “Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.”
3. The Feldenkrais Method® is a great way to ease tension and improve posture and coordination. It can be particularly good for anyone suffering from chronic pain or struggling with a condition that limits mobility.
4. The Feldenkrais Method® allows people to “rediscover their innate capacity for graceful, efficient movement” and that “these improvements will often generalize to enhance functioning in other aspects of their life”
5. A Feldenkrais practitioner directs attention to habitual movement patterns which are thought to be inefficient or strained and attempt to teach new patterns using gentle, slow, repeated movements.
6. The Feldenkrais Method® has been used by patients with chronic pain, brain trauma, stroke, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.
7. The Feldenkrais Method® isn’t a “cure” for autism, but it can help with many of the sensory challenges that can cause autism to be stressful for a child and his or her family.
8. The point of Feldenkrais Method® is to lead to awareness in action, or the ability to make contact with one’s own skeleton and muscles and with the environment practically simultaneously.
9. The Feldenkrais Method® is a type of exercise therapy that involves aspects of meditation, yoga and physical therapy.
10. One component of the Feldenkrais Method is “Functional Integration.” This involves a practitioner physically directing the joint and muscle movements of a patient, to facilitate the learning of healthier kinesthetic patterns.
11. Feldenkrais helps children with physical disabilities expand their range of movement, develop motor skills, and assert greater control over their bodies. It also helps children who are developing their motor skills late.
12. Moshe Feldenkrais published his first book on the technique and four years later returned to Israel to practice and teach his method. One of his first pupils was then PM Ben-Gurion, whom he treated for back trouble almost daily for some 17 years.
13. The Feldenkrais Method® sharpens bodily awareness, leading to corresponding leaps in motor skills, focus, attention span, presence, and cognition.
14. The benefits of the Feldenkrais Method®️ are myriad:
    • Muscular tension reduces.
    • Basic muscle tone becomes more uniform.
    • New mobility and greater flexibility, physical as well as mental, become possible.
    • Thoughts become clearer, relationships easier, more effective and more dynamic.
    • Self-confidence grows and a feeling of well-being happens.
    • Physical movements are better divided over the whole skeleton, reducing ineffective effort and increasing the kinesthetic sensitivity.
15. The manipulative technique in Feldenkrais Method® is necessarily individual and custom-tailored to fit the particular needs of the person.
16. The Feldenkrais Method® is a way of exploring movement, posture and breathing through hands-on touch, used by dancers, musicians, athletes, actors and people living with and rehabilitating from a range of illnesses and injuries.
17. The main component of the Feldenkrais Method® is “Awareness Through Movement.” This is a teaching situation where a practitioner leads several patients through a series of movements. The patients are instructed to perform the same simple movement slowly and repeatedly while paying attention to the associated physical sensations.
18. The Feldenkrais Method® is based on principles of physics, biomechanics and an empirical understanding of learning and human development.
19. By expanding the self-image through movement sequences that bring attention to the parts of the self that are out of awareness, the Feldenkrais Method® enables you to include more of yourself in your functioning movements.
20. By increasing sensitivity the Feldenkrais Method® assists you to live your life more fully, efficiently and comfortably.