Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® is a unique method of neuromuscular reprogramming that improves HOW you move: be it exercise, work, recreation, sports or...rehabilitation from injury or surgery. But that is an oversimplification. You are hard-wired to learn through movement. It's how you learned to swallow that first sip of mother's milk at birth. It's how you learned to roll over. It's how you learned to sit up, scoot, crawl, stand and walk. By leveraging your innate ability to learn in this mode, you can minimize compensation patterns and restore natural mobility.
I know exactly what that feels like. After a building accident that required reconstructive surgery to one of the bones of my lower leg, I experienced firsthand how the medical and insurance system separates the injured part from the whole person —during that long and painful rehab process— I was stunned to notice that my training was potentially more rigorous, thorough and permanent for recovery from injury than conventional approaches. It's partly because in medicine, their hands are tied by the insurance industry. When you can only get approval for certain things, you don't get the full recovery you deserve.
I've worked with thousands of people in pain over almost 30 years. It taught me that unraveling deep muscular guarding requires an internal shift in perception. Mindless repetitive exercise strengthens muscles, but doesn't put you into that receptive mode that enhances learning. It's purely mechanical and transient. If you stop doing it, you're in trouble.
And if you do nothing to address the limping, wincing, bracing and armoring that result from significant injury, it comes back as new pain. In the medical system, that means a new diagnosis, a new insurance runaround and months of time lost when the best intervention is immediate. Instead, I can train your nervous system to recognize more functional patterns, release unconscious bracing that distributes force unevenly and generates excessive wear on your joints. In some cases, when you just strengthen and stretch, you actually end up strengthening the assymmetry that is causing you new pain.
You Can Do Better If You Know How
Transform tension into greater mobility and make recovery from injury more permanent.
Exercise strengthens muscles, but this is a different strategy. When you retrain your brain to move in novel ways, it creates new neurological pathways that linger far after the course is over. Like learning to ride a bicycle, you don't have to remember how because you can hardly forget. The nerve synapses have become a new pathway.
Rather than just working locally to strengthen individual muscles, which is a temporary fix at best, >>>rediscover how to access the patterns that taught you how to walk in the first place.
This ten-session course provides you with a structure for neurological reprogramming.
Reduce compensation patterns and prevent the pain they cause eventually. By reducing the stimulus, you regain access to the state of learning that bypasses cognitive load and expands physical skill without traditional exercise. It reduces muscle tension. It augments focus. And it makes you age with greater mobility, not less.
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Self-OrganizingThe nervous system coordinates muscles in functional patterns. It doesn't control each muscular contraction independently. -
Patterns Are NeurologicalBefore you could talk, your brain was constructing movement in patterns, using progressive inhibition and control to generate balance and mobility. -
Retrain Your BrainPosture and walking are examples of continuous, multi-joint coordination under changing conditions that make it possible for you to interact with the world.
Providing support for better self-care since 1997.
A Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2004, Gabrielle offers reeducation of compensation patterns in a safe environment that supports lasting change. Through mindful movement, she guides a return to the innate learning process we all used as children—learning to walk before we could talk, without words
She has worked with specifically with veterans, survivors of domestic violence, horses, equine athletes, and people who wish to remain mobile and comfortable as they age.
After a building accident, she fell onto the corner of a box that required surgery to reconstruct one of the bones of her lower leg. During the rehab process, she experienced firsthand how the medical/insurance complex separates the part that's injured from the whole person.
After additional advanced training in the Feldenkrais Method with Jeff Haller over two years beyond the initial four required to become a Feldenkrais Practitioner, she also trained with John Barnes in Myofascial Release, a body of work which also recognizes that consciousness is inherent in the body and that to ignore that fact is tantamount to impeding the recovery process.
These trainings have had such profound impact on the quality of her own life that she has decided it would be egregious not to teach others to learn these simple somatic practices for self-care.
She lives in Jacksonville, Oregon, with her two horses, Cortez and Wisconsin, and her cat, Luke...
Enhance The Rest of You Life
Instead, discover how to spread the work over a larger area by using muscles that are just fine - muscles you may not have moved in so long you've forgotten how good it felt to move that way!
Most people have no conscious awareness that they contract muscles without meaning to. It's like leaving the light on in your car. Instead of draining your battery, learn to move with as little effort as possible.
Instead of letting unconscious habit diminish your ROM, discover how to increase your mobility so gradually, that you are surprised when you feel the difference!
Sometimes, life is so hard that it requires a massive commitment to change. Sometimes, life is so challenging that nothing but 110% commitment will do. Sometimes, you have to be willing to do whatever it takes.
This is certainly what has been required for me as I worked my way out of the three whiplash injuries that would have kept anyone else from working at anything physical. And if you are one of those people who is at this point, I am 110% there for you.
Unlock lasting change without running around for permission from the system. Take control of your own wellbeing. Prevent the "inevitable" problems with balance and falling that haunt most seniors. It is entirely preventable if you have the great good fortune to find somebody who is willing to teach you what seem to be held as trade secrets in other professions. You have a right to know how to help yourself.
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A Radical Movement: Do Less; Heal FasterHow Doing Less Is More...“Do more” is such an ingrained habit in our culture, an unexamined value which hurts people when applied without discernment, that the reminder to do less must become a constant awareness. Find the Somalogic Newsletter there at /embody Your Divine Nature.
Feldenkrais Functional Integration® and Awareness Through Movement® are more than a set of methods and techniques used by Feldenkrais teachers. They encompass a unique way of understanding and approaching issues of human functioning and human learning. Competency can only be acquired through Immersion, yet the process itself is transformative and last a lifetime because you are changing your brain.
Gabrielle Pullen, GCFP uses these service marks, trademarks & certification marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America with permission:
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Functional Integration®, Awareness Through Movement®, ATM®, FI®, GCFP.
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher®, and Guild Certified Feldenkrais PractitionerCM
Member since 2002.
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