"My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behavior so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants."

Moshe Feldenkrais

®Awareness Through Movement Lessons

with Jacki Katzman, Your Movement Mentor

“I am going to be your last teacher.

Not because I’ll be the greatest teacher you may ever encounter, but because from me you will learn how to learn.

When you learn how to learn, you will realize that there are no teachers, that there are only people learning and people learning how to facilitate learning.”

Moshe Feldenkrais

Feldenkrais Method® group classes are known as Awareness Through Movement® (ATM^®) lessons. Each lesson is a guided exploration of odd, unconventional movements structured to bring awareness to ineffective habits and stimulate the nervous system to discover new ways of using the body.

ATM is low-impact to the extreme: the less you do the more effectively you learn. In this form, the teacher talks during the rests, and there are many rests (so that your nervous system can absorb new information.) This form of focused body-based attentiveness has the potential to transform the way you do things you love.

There are over 1000 ATM lessons, each a formal composition: like a piece of music, a martial arts kata, a mathematical proof, or a choreographed dance. Each lesson calls upon the student's natural ability to learn. Some lessons progress through innate, human developmental phases; they help students 'fill in the blanks' of movement lost due to injury, social norms or missed learning opportunities. Others explore a specific everyday movement. All lessons focus on bringing a total body awareness and connection to consciousness and improvement of a different aspect of human movement and functioning.

Lesson series often develop around a theme - opening the chest, grounding the feet, skiing, sitting at the potting wheel, preparing to practice an instrument - through a progression of interrelated lessons that approach core movements from different orientations, points of focus, and practical, real-life situations.

During lessons, students may lie on the floor with a padded mat, sit on a chair or stool, and sometimes stand. No experience is necessary, though curiosity and a willingness to explore within are imperative. Dress comfortably.

Jacki Katzman, Your Movement Mentor, is now offering classes in the North Country and Northeast Kingdom. See Class Schedule for schedule of upcoming sessions at Balance Bethlehem, Iyengar Yoga North Studio at 23 Ammonoosuc, Center for Collaborative Energies, and Barnet Tradepost Wellness Center.

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