What is the Feldenkrais Method?
The Feldenkrais Method is designed to retrain your nervous system and reorganize your movement patterns so that you can move through the world physically and emotionally with a sense of ease, comfort, and freedom. Over time, you’ll develop more efficient patterns, and enhance awareness of your mind and body through mindful movement.
I really want you to be able to move beyond limits. When I say “move beyond limits,” I don’t just mean physical movement. I mean all movements including sensing, thinking, imagining, and feeling. To me the Feldenkrais Method is the only modality that I am aware of that integrates all these aspects into its movement lessons, called Awareness Through Movement.
What’s so wonderful about going through this movement process is that it will unfold all joy and excitement that you have forgotten about underneath “your limits.” This is not just about relieving pain, improving balance and your movement. This is really about improving your life. This is what I am passionate about.
What the Feldenkrais Method is NOT:
not a push-to-your-limits workout (you work with your nervous system to affect your functions, and you can improve faster by slowing down and reducing effort)
not a one-size-fits all set of exercises (Each individual has different responses to the step-by-step instruction and experience/notice different shifts)
not prescriptive (you’re encouraged to explore and experiment)
not corrective (you expand your movement patterns instead of eliminating/correcting)
Move beyond limits
I’m here to guide you through your journey of reconnecting with your body, re-discovering the excitement and pure joy and pleasure that comes from having the full ownership of YOUR BODY, experiencing yourself as your body!
A no-cost zoom strategy call helps us get acquainted and explore possibilities together. It gives us a chance to talk spontaneously and freely. You can share some of your history with me, ask questions, get insight into my perspective as a movement expert, and find out a bit about who I am, and how I can help you. Together, we’ll figure out if we’re a great fit to work together inside the “Understanding How YOUR BODY Moves Method” (my comprehensive movement course platform with my mentorship program)..
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“After what felt like an endless journey through hundreds of sessions spanning physical therapy, Bikram Yoga, chiropractic treatments, and Gyrotonics, I stumbled upon something—or rather someone—truly remarkable. That someone is Taro, my Feldenkrais teacher.
For years, I grappled with the aftermath of a torn ACL, an injury that ultimately led to a knee replacement. It was a challenging path, one filled with adjustments and compensations. But then I met Taro. His approach through Feldenkrais was the first that didn’t just band-aid the symptoms but delved into the root of my issues, teaching me not just what to fix, but how.
Each session with Taro brought new revelations, those “a-ha” moments that anyone who has struggled with chronic pain or physical limitations dreams of. It’s not just about the exercises or the movements; it’s about relearning how your body can and should move, and Taro is a master at guiding this journey.
I’m not alone in my experience. I’ve joined a growing list of individuals who have had their lives transformed by Taro’s expertise and the Feldenkrais method. It’s not an overstatement to say that working with Taro has been life-changing. The path to recovery is often long and winding, but with Taro’s guidance, it’s a journey marked by profound learning and genuine improvement.
To anyone considering Feldenkrais or seeking a way out of chronic pain and limited mobility, I cannot recommend Taro enough. His knowledge, patience, and ability to connect with his students are unparalleled. Thank you, Taro, for opening a door to healing and mobility that I thought was permanently closed.”
“I have gotten so many gifts to my troublesome left hip and leg from this course “Understanding How YOUR BODY Moves Method” first time through such as: better ankle awareness for easier dorsiflexion, more awareness of skeletal support for more balance gait even though still using a cane, ability to bend my knee more when walking instead of holding it stiffly, the beginning of more stability in my pelvis, more confidence walking in public, etc.
A very interesting awareness has come clear and is a bit humorous to me. Several ways that I habitually used for walking support like a shopping cart in stores, or touching the wall or furniture while walking in the house, I now experience as actually hampering my skeletal support - getting me actually out of alignment and making my muscles compensate in different ways that tire me and cause me back pain! Who knew? I had no awareness of this before this course.
I am excited to go through the modules again and see what happens this time as I deepen my practice of body awareness. Thanks to Taro’s course I feel I am beginning to finally get where I need to be. Hurray!”
“I just completed Principles of Movement as well as the Comprehensive Movement Course... As as Pilates instructor, we are encouraged to do Continuing Education classes. I am sooo glad that I found this course. Our first Pilates instructor Elizabeth Larkam is a Feldenkrais practitioner as well as a master Pilates instructor.. So, I was exposed to Feldenkrais for the last 25 yrs but your method of instruction was so clear, specific, great progression and fantastic connection to mind-body. Your approach is FUNCTIONAL which applies to every client that we teach here at our studio. There are about 10 clients that are now following you on You Tube... Keep up the great work. I am personally
benefiting from this course as well... Thank you Taro”
“Taro shares a great deal of knowledge and experience with the community in his classes. He is a kind and gentle guide in the exploration of learning how each person’s body moves and options for moving differently. Taro is patient, which encourages you to slow down and pay attention. He has a great sense of humor as well. I enjoy learning about my body and its movements and have found myself using the new knowledge in my daily life to prevent or lessen some of the aches and pains I experience.”