Feldenkrais^® Edge

…to be free to move in any direction at any time, without hesitation or preparation.
— Moshe Feldenkrais

Feldenkrais^® is a sophisticated method of improving the body’s coordination, flexibility and intelligence of movement. It is a unique system of exercise, which can be thought of as the ‘missing link’ in performance training for athletes, musicians, dancers, and those who desire easier movement in everyday tasks.
— Mark Reese, Feldenkrais® Protoge

The nature of sports and athletics is its unpredictability. In all sports, each moment provides thousands of new variables for one to experience in the pursuit of delivering superior performance of both mind and body.

Achieving one’s inherent potential – unleashing inhibitors to maximum movement – has always been a highly sought after goal. Be it competitive or professional athletes, the weekend sports enthusiast, the fitness minded, or the suburban runner, the world is full of those striving to enjoy an endless variety of movements.

Training, skill, and determination all contribute to an athlete’s capacity to perform one’s sport. Add to that the beliefs about how one should, or can, accomplish one’s goals and a whole new set of factors begins to control the outcome of one’s efforts.

Competitive performance – friendly or otherwise – means consistently performing at the level expected by one’s coach, team and audience in highly unpredictable situations. Expanding your potential to either advance or to maintain performance is always a critical factor in success.

Why Tiger Woods remakes his swing

… the Feldenkrais Method^® and its unique approach to mind and body has helped me immeasurably, not only in the way I play golf, but also the way I teach the game.
—Rick Acton, 5-time NE PGA Champion

The Feldenkrais Method^® has been used by athletes to shake out of their habituated performance, and to ‘take their game up a notch’ for over 40 years. Feldenkrais^®, which is currently gaining more visibility due to the celebrity of advocates including Dr. Julius Irving and singer/dancer Madonna, has been developed to utilize the brain’s neuro-plasticity for changing habitual movement.

The focus is on the interior of one’s body to feel the connection of bones and muscle to motion, to become aware of how you do what you do when you move. This provides the opportunity to assess the ease or effort of habituated movements, to explore options for more easeful and effective movement and select changes that improve athletic performance, overall health and longevity.

The Feldenkrais Method^® assists people from all walks of life in assessing their current movement thresholds and in selecting movements that enable them to achieve their goals more simply and directly.

Adding Ease and Grace

The Feldenkrais Method^® has shown me how to balance my body and—improve my flexibility.
—Chris Dudley, NBA Player, New York Knicks

Feldenkrais® supports both transitioning and specialized movements that are included in any a sports performance. The transition from movement to movement is a critical activity in athletics that is as important for development as is sport specialized skills, such as jumping in ice skating and pitching in baseball.

Transitions are a category of motion in and of themselves. Starting, lifting, pivoting, shifting, twisting, bending, stepping, and reaching – to name only a few of these elements – are the connectors for other sport specialized skills – pitching, shooting, swinging – that become the longer routines, plays, rounds and other measured segments of sport.

The efficient capacity to physically flow on demand from action to action creates more confidence, takes less energy, reduces injury and enhances the ability to adapt to constantly changing situations.

An enhanced ability to ‘flow’ a chain of physical actions results in superior performance and success.
—Naomi Saunders, Certified Feldenkrais^® Instructor

The Feldenkrais Method^® has been designed to benefit anyone at any age. It benefits men and women; peak performance athletes and those recovering from injury. It is especially recommended for young athletes who are early in forming their routines, and it is popular with people experiencing the encroaching limitations from age or overtraining.