This movement series focuses on improving your balance. Balance is NOT the ability to remain still. Balance is the ability to move and adapt to changes responsively. You don’t want to train your body to become rigid like bricks. You want to train your body and movement to become as fluid as water. As Bruce Lee famously said “If you put water into a cup, the water becomes the cup. If you put it into a bowl, it becomes the bowl. If you put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Be water my friend.” This series will teach you to become well balanced both physically and emotionally!

Daily movement lessons are designed for you to fit a mindful movement practice easily into your busy day. It is my hope that this series inspires you to practice movement daily and apply new awareness of movements and body into everyday life so you can move with greater ease and comfort, which in turn will make you feel like you WANT TO MOVE MORE!

What you will need for a lesson:

• Floor space for movement

• Yoga mat or blanket for comfort

• Pillow, several stacks of small towels for head support

• Curiosity!

4 Tips on how to get the most out of Feldenkrais lesson:

1. Move slowly (slowing down your movements allows you to notice subtle difference and changes more easily)

2. Move within range of your own comfort. Don’t push. Don’t strain. You gain more by doing less.

3. Enjoy changes you notice during and after each lesson.

4. Apply what you learn in a lesson into your daily activities (so that new awareness and movements will be integrated into your system)

* Please note that a lesson often involves one side. If you have time to practice on the other side, please go through the same sequence on the other side. However, it’s not absolutely necessary to do on both sides. You may experience feeling a difference/contrast between two sides after finishing a lesson on one side, which may give you a sense of being “off balance.” Your nervous system will assimilate the information and gradually make adjustments, and it will transfer the information to the other side. Thus, a sense of being “off balance” will diminish soon even if you choose not to do the lesson on the other side. The bottom line is you will receive benefits either way!

* These movement lessons do not have to be done in this order. In fact, you can start from any lesson.

*After your purchase, you will receive a secure link to digital downloads. Note that they will expire within 24 hours of your first access, so please be sure to download a file (PDF) on your device so you can access it permanently. In a downloaded PDF file you will find 5 images of movement lessons. Clicking on an image will take you to a corresponding lesson. It is actually much simpler and easier than it may sound. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Question 1: How often should I practice?

Answer: Ideally everyday. The reason for that is once movement practice becomes your daily routine, it’s easier to practice consistently. The more you practice, the more aware you become of your body and movement. The main benefit of daily practice is to gain awareness, which will lead to improved coordination, mobility, mind-body connection, creativity, and reduced stress and anxiety.

Question 2: When is the best time to practice?

Answer: Anytime that works with your schedules. From my experience it’d be helpful to make it as your daily routine just like brushing teeth.

Question 3: How can I apply these lessons into my daily activities?

Answer: This is really the ultimate purpose of having daily mindful movement practice. This requires you to extend your newly gained awareness into your every activities. It’s very challenging and almost impossible to pay attention to every single thing you do, so my suggestion is to pick only one activity and pay attention only for a short period of time first and gradually increase time. For example, you pay attention to how you sit (how you distribute weight on your sit bones) at work, and practice shifting weight L and R and notice how you sit habitually and experiment different options.

Question 4: I get pain when I do certain movements. Should I push through pain?

Answer: I would not suggest you push through pain. I would first slow down movements and reduce range of motion and see if that will help you move more comfortably. If not, you can try doing movements on the other side if you can move more comfortably on the other side, or you can imagine doing movements. Surprisingly, imagination of movements (visualization) is just as effective if not more effective as actual movements because the brain activates the same neuro-pathways as it would in actual movements. One of the principles of the Feldenkrais Method is LESS IS MORE!

Question 5: Does Feldenkrais movement practice interfere with my activities such as Yoga, Cross Fit, Sports?

Answer: Absolutely not! Quite the opposite. What’s really nice about Feldenkrais movement practice is that you improve body awareness, sensitivity, movement acuity and control. These skills can greatly enhance your performance in any other activities because you can sense your body and movements much more clearly and accurately.