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Feldenkrais method

This method is aimed at making discoveries about body postures and exercises. The exercises are light and easy and teach the brain to do exercises without feeling pain. These exercises can undo many aches and pains and they relieve muscular tension, too.

It can be recommended for all people who want to improve the quality of their motion. Healthy people as well as patients with locomotor diseases or injuries  can use this type of exercises.  

The founder of the method is Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), who, due to strenuous activities during his sports career and military service, suffered from knee and joint problems. Since he opposed to a surgical solution to his health problems, he decided on a somatic treatment.   

He elaborated the technique and the exercises from the 1950s onwards, and it was in the 1970s that he began to teach them. Currently there are 4 thousand practitioners all over the world who teach Feldenkrais therapy.

There are 2 ways of learning. 

1. Awareness through movement.
These are therapist-led sessions lasting from 30-60 minutes. The exercises are performed individually and at an individual pace.  The therapist gives oral instructions and demonstrates several versions of how to perform the exercises. There are 600 exercises and they have about 1000 varieties. Thus each Feldenkrais session offers people something new and enjoyable to practise

2. Functional integration
The therapist deals with patients one by one, on an individual basis. He/she helps arm and leg movements in lying, standing and sitting positions.

Source. http://www.edzestervezes.hu/edzes-stilusok-modszerek-feldenkrais-modszer.html