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What is Awareness Through Movement?
Feldenkrais lessons use a gentle approach that celebrates the joy and power of sensing yourself in movement, discovering and learning about new functional connections within yourself while always looking for the easy and pleasant way. With a focus on raising awareness,you learn how to better organise yourself with gravity. In the group lessons we zoom in and slow down in order to sense differences and to get to know yourself and your habits better. In a playful way we can discover new options, to boost your creativity and to find more support and ease within yourself.
These lessons use our natural ability to learn and reorganize how you move, integrating new sensory experiences into your action. You create a new functional organization that integrates directly into your daily life and you’ll be able to face challenges with a whole new set of ressources.
Looking forward to sharing presence and move with you!
I know that it is important for me to be aware of my body if I want to grow old in a healthy way. It is important for me to be able to move around and stay active without pain, and I think Feldenkrais gives me more than just sports and strength training do. It helps me feel my body and increase my awareness of it.
Signe, 37, stage artist and disability support worker
What to expect from a Feldenkrais class
Awareness Through Movement classes are a journey into sensation and self-discovery. You will use small, slow movements to refine your sensitivity and bring clarity to your inner experience.
Through verbal guidance, you will deepen your awareness of coordination, timing, and the changing relationships between different parts of an action. By subtly varying these movements and gently challenging habitual patterns, you invite your entire being to find new, more efficient possibilities. The use of active imagination further helps unlock your potential.
This approach to learning provides practical tools to reorganize yourself in relation to gravity, breathe more easily, and move with greater intention. You will leave the class with a renewed sense of lightness, support, and comfort in every action.
An Awareness Through Movement class usually takes around 45-60 minutes.
I think it was exciting; it was a bit different. As opposed to something like yoga, where you use your whole body and challenge it, it’s more about the small, specific movements. It’s exciting to have to draw a picture of what the body looks like within.
August, 23, student of physiotherapy after experiencing his first session
How do we improve the way we move?
Feldenkrais lessons uses different sensory-motor learning strategies and our brain’s ability to change itself (brain plasticity): guiding our attention to different sensory aspects of a movement; exploring coordination, timing and relationships between different body parts; Utilizing small and slow movements to enhance our sensitivity and processing of sensory information; systematically varying the ways we do a movement; active imagination & visualization; and many more strategies.
Become aware of your movements through group classes with experienced teachers
If you have become interested in trying Awareness Through Movement, you can find additional information on scheduled classes, teams and practitioners in our calendar and on the list of accredited Feldenkrais practitioners.