Testimonials

Imagine every joint of your body oiled, your body in perfect alignment. Such is the feeling one develops after but one session with an experienced Feldenkrais practitioner. I had the distinct feeling that I was being reinforced by a greater energy source, the sensation of playing in the ocean’s waves, very euphoric. One’s senses become alive, alert, present in their environment. In sports, this type of direct and accurate feedback is essential for world-class performances. I had one of my best ever competitions after doing Feldenkrais work between runs.

Indeed, any person seeking a more harmonious relationship to themselves and the world around them would find Feldenkrais extremely worthy of their time. There’s an amazing psychological transformation that takes place when one’s body is freed of all the habitual tension patterns layered down through many years of misuse (abuse?). Smiles come easier, as does laughter. There is a childlike simplicity to the feel of my body. Indeed it later came to me that this was how my body felt when I was a child. It is the way we were meant to feel and move, with a much truer sense of our potential, and a more effective means of reaching for it. Feldenkrais then, as I understand it, is reeducating my body to communicate with itself. One’s kinosphere is rendered the capability of playing with the universe as it was meant to.

I see the future of sports focusing more on these internal balances. Much more awareness is freed up to direct toward, for example, one’s creative processes. Performance and enjoyment is enhanced. You’re experiencing these things directly! My bias is sports, particularly skiing. It seems to me that Feldenkrais makes a perfect marriage to the sport of skiing, because efficiency of body movement, groundedness and fluidity of motion are the characteristics that reap the greatest rewards on the ski slopes, not to mention the fewest injuries. With Feldenkrais I have begun to understand what is meant by; “balance-in-motion…” “fluid power…” “dancing with the mountain…”

— Troy Watts, former member of US Ski Team
January 13, 1990 Essay for Feldenkrais