The Feldenkrais Method of somatic education uses movement and real-time body awareness of your own body sensations to guide students toward the positive changes you seek. Students explore odd, low impact movements that stimulate the brain to create new neural pathways that enable optimal movement patterns and function (neuroplasticity).

The Feldenkrais Method was developed over 40 years of research by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. He was a scientist and an athlete, as well as one of the first Europeans to earn a black belt in Judo. He applied his rigorous scientific approach and decades of research in physics, neuroscience, biomechanics, learning theory, and human development to formulate his methods. Though Dr. Feldenkrais excelled in the martial arts, the program he developed focuses on subtle movement and is appropriate for anyone.

The Method is founded on the ethos that humans are exquisitely designed for infinitely flexible, continuously learning, creative expression. Dr. Feldenkrais' work anticipated today's findings on neuroplasticity, the nervous system's proven ability to create new pathways, as the means to deep learning and awareness.

The Feldenkrais Method has helped people find new, whole-body ways of movement that circumvent chronic pain. Performers of all types - musicians, actors, visual artists, dancers, and athletes of all sports - have discovered freer, more fluid movement and creative expression through this practice. People whose bodies are changing due to age, injury, pregnancy, recovery from an illness find they can reconnect to their original self images in new and positive ways.

Feldenkrais® group classes are known as Awareness Through Movement® (ATM®) lessons. Awareness Through Movement classes use slow, mindful movements to achieve powerful effects in terms of strength, flexibility, and holistic integration of body and mind. Feldenkrais® private sessions are known as Functional Integration® (FI®) lessons. In Functional Integration, the teacher guides an individual student in movement lessons using gentle, non-invasive touch as the primary means of communication.

Jacki Katzman, Your Movement Mentor, is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® now offering Awareness Through Movement® group classes and individual Functional Integration® sessions in Bethlehem, NH, Littleton, NH, and Barnet, VT.