What is Different from Yoga, Pilates, or stretching
Ways that Feldenkrais Classes are different from other modalities
Exercise, dance, yoga |
Feldenkrais |
expect to move, stretch, and experience some intensity of sensation. |
we move small and slow, to experience the subtler sensations particularly as they relate to organic learning and whole body integration |
using their eyes for learning movement, e.g watching a teacher |
instructions are verbal, not visual Eye movements themselves tell us a great deal about our limitations; when eyes are free, many limitations are lifted |
energetically through a series of challenging poses, and to pace our movements like a choreographer or a dj |
move at your own pace, doing as much as you choose, and resting when you choose |
generally expected to be challenging, delivering us beyond our limitations |
cultivate effortlessness in movement. |
Upright, often some balance challenges |
practice in reclining positions, and rest regularly Balance emerges organically, from the floor upward |
Particular breathing form or formula |
Options offered for you to learn the rhythm that fits their needs |
Interest and attention to the aesthetic of alignment |
You learns possibilities that may help them to spontaneously find their alignment |
Attention to muscular force |
Listening to ways to distribute the work according to the size of the muscle group Attention on finding the path of less effort yet greater functioning |
Attention and activation of the “core” |
Learning to spontaneously organize/coordinate movement in many directions |