Nourishing healthy spirit in a healthy body
“Movement is life, life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
Feldenkrais group lessons
(Awareness Through Movement)
Welcome to Feldenkrais Awareness Though Movement, a gentle movement experience that invites your brain to create new neural connections, improve movement patterns, and facilitate your physical, cognitive & emotional well-being.
What can Feldenkrais help you with?
Chronic pain and recovery from trauma
Changing usual behaviours and movement patterns to unlearn your pain
Posture
Skeletal alignment for better posture and easier movement
Anxiety and emotional stress
Re-establishing harmony between body and mind
Improve performance
For athletes, dancers, musicians, actors...
Neurological issues
In both children and adults
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To make your experience the most comfortable and enjoyable, you will need:
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warm and comfortable clothing (most people underestimate the number of layers they need for a comfortable staying on the floor for some time, even on a warm day);
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open mind and curiosity to explore yourself in movement 😉
What does the lesson look like and what will I need?
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During the lesson, you will follow verbal guidance and do a sequence of gentle, comfortable, and anatomically coherent movements exploring your body's capabilities and sensations. Some lessons are calmer, others are a bit more active. Every movement will be approached with the idea of safe exploration within the limits of your own comfort.
NB: If you’d like to fully benefit from the lesson, please be on time. Taking a few minutes to calm down and mentally prepare for the class will improve the quality of your experience during the lesson and enhance the benefits your receive from it.​
What is it all about?
In early childhood, we experimented a lot with our body and interacted with the outer world mainly through our sensations.
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In those first years, the ways in which we use our bodies changed dramatically in a short period of time. Each of us learnt in our own individual way to crawl, walk, stand, speak, feel, listen and carry all the other functions. Each of us went through a truly unique journey of self-discovery and functional development!
With time, these ways of performing different actions solidify as "good enough" and go onto the subconscious level. Many of us never go back to reconsider their effectiveness in the new circumstances. This creates a self-image of what we can and what we can not do.
Very often, however, this self-image is much smaller than our actual capacity and is full of limiting beliefs.
When, already in adulthood, you face a challenge in terms of movement (an injury or some externally caused limitation), chances are that you go for the simplest solution. You adapt to the change by adding new layers to your habitual movement patterns. And you are not alone.
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Unfortunately, we almost never reconsider the whole chain of habitual layers that we have piled up througout our lives. In many cases, we forget to take off that last adaptation layer once the problem is gone. So, we continue living with the stacks of habitual movement patterns that we piled up over the course of our lives.
Series of such unhealthy movement adaptations can often be a cause
of significant discomfort, tension and pain in daily life.
The Feldenkrais Method, developed by Moshe Feldenkrais in the mid-1900s, is a gentle and effective approach that can help you unpile the unnecessary layers. By tapping into the natural intelligence of your nervous system (including the quality of neuroplasticity) you can open up neurological pathways for a sustainable change for the better.
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This education movement system combines the physics principles with functional and evolutionary movement sequences from Judo. Through the movement experience itself, it teaches you how to better use your own body by improving your sensory awareness.
The Feldenkrais method works to optimise your neuromuscular connections - that is, to strengthen the cooperation between mind and body. By cultivating your awareness to integrate more of yourself into your movements, you expand the range of movement possibilities and expand your self-image toward your full potential.
How is Feldenkrais different from other practices?
Focus on function and integration
Lessons tie directly into functional movements of daily life, such as walking efficiently, safely lifting objects, and improving one's posture in sitting or standing.
Improving organisation bottom-up
Where other practices focus on engaging musculature, Feldenkrais method emphasises sensing the skeletal organisation and movement initiated from within.
Uses neuroplasticity for a long-term change
Works gently with the nervous system to refine the mind-body connection and improve habitual movement patterns using the quality of neuroplasticity.
Fundamental approach
Helps you develop sensory awareness and learn to use your body in an easier and pain-free way starting right where you are.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at iryna@mindfulbody.lu.
I am looking forward to sharing this personal exploration experience with you! 🙂
