More formally known as the Feldenkrais Method®, it’s still an unusual name - but thousands of people globally have benefited from this powerful sequence of movements. It’s simple, relaxing and anyone can do it. Plus, it generally doesn’t take long to experience results.
It’s different from yoga, pilates & tai chi
While you are on a mat on the floor and you do follow a series of movements, Feldenkrais® is different from yoga, tai chi and Pilates. The sequences are different, designed especially to reactivate or ‘awaken’ forgotten areas. Once followed through, your body will move with better coordination and greater harmony. And the benefits flow beyond the physical - with a more harmonious body comes a more harmonious mind.
Anyone can do it
Any age, any body type, anyone from professional athletes to those with severe physical disabilities can benefit from Quantum-Shift’s Feldenkrais® approach.
Whatever condition you are in, Feldenkrais® can help you move and feel in the best possible way for you.
How does it work?
Through Feldenkrais’® safe and gentle movements, we explore how we use our bodies and how we express ourselves. We find places that we no longer use, other parts we over-use to compensate and how that compensation throws our whole system out of balance. When we are physically limited, our self-expression also becomes limited.
Through Quantum-Shift’s techniques you will awaken these forgotten areas in the body and integrate them back into your whole body function.
About ‘stored memory’
This simple, gentle movement is the tool to better health. Even more remarkably, it can also help us find the truth about who we are.
It is becoming common knowledge that negative emotions, like chronic stress, can affect our physical wellbeing. Because our history can be stored in our bodies, stored negative emotions can bring about physical limitations.
Because life throws at us all sorts of messages about who we are, or must be, to be happy or just to survive we build mistaken ideas about who we really are. This discord can create mental, emotional and physical pain. Through Feldenkrais® we can let go of those illusions about our identity and live as we truly are with real integrity - and feel great.
About who you really are
From the womb to 6 or 8 years of age we are powerfully influenced by our environment. What our environment was like back then shaped our idea of who we are.
Our family, neighbourhood, religion, country and culture can all strongly influence our beliefs, judgments, prejudices and attitudes. How much we were loved during this early period can also determine how we see ourselves.
So there are two ‘I’s:
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The one we have made from all those collected external influences
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The original self, before those external influences complicated and misrepresented who you were created to be
Quantum-Shift’s Feldenkrais® helps us from the ‘I’ we have made back to the original self. Living as our original, true selves, we not only have a new perception of ourselves but also have a new perception of the world.
What a big change, what a quantum shift!
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“What I'm after isn't flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I'm after is to restore each person to their human dignity.”- Moshe Feldrenkrais
