Making better use of your possibilities
How Feldenkrais invites you to grow in movement and in yourself
Many people wonder why the Feldenkrais Method is such a powerful tool for change. What makes it work? And how can those changes become lasting? The answer has a lot to do with discovering more possibilities through Feldenkrais, because the method connects with the way you naturally learn.
Learning the way you naturally do
The Feldenkrais Method is essentially a model of learning. Not learning through performance or thinking, but learning the way you did in your earliest years of life: through movement, curiosity, and experience.
When you understand how this works, you can apply it to almost anything — your posture, your flexibility, your breathing, but also to the way you move through life.
In a Feldenkrais lesson, we ask questions of the brain, because that activates your capacity for change.
Not theoretical questions, but questions you can only answer by feeling:
- What changes in your contact with the floor?
- Where does the pressure increase, and where does it decrease?
- Which parts of yourself move along, and which stay behind?
- How does your breathing change when you slow the movement down?
- What is the difference between your right and left side?
Through variation, clarity emerges. You discover what feels pleasant, what moves smoothly, what feels lighter. And if something doesn’t feel good, you can explore what you might change: moving smaller, slowing down, moving in a slightly different direction, or bringing more attention to balance and evenness.
In this way, you develop a refined way of learning to which your brain responds immediately.
Why change may be needed
Change often begins with dissatisfaction: something hurts, something feels stiff, something no longer works the way it used to. That’s when a little alarm bell goes off. But pain or stiffness doesn’t have to be the end point. It can actually be an invitation to explore whether other possibilities exist, and almost always, they do.
Your real possibilities are greater than you think
Sometimes we live, metaphorically speaking, in a jacket that’s too tight.
We move within patterns that once made sense, but now limit us — not only physically, but mentally and emotionally.
The Feldenkrais Method helps you make that jacket roomier.
In the lessons, you explore movements that may be challenging or unexpected — movements that invite you to find new solutions.
When you notice that more is possible in movement than you thought, that insight almost automatically carries over into the rest of your life.
You discover a different kind of freedom, because your body shows you that your possibilities are greater than your habits.
Why settle for less when so much more is available?
What is your reason for wanting to change?
Change usually begins with a question.
Not: “How do I get rid of my back pain?” but:
What would I do if that back pain were no longer there?
What possibilities would open up?
What might shift in your life if your body felt lighter and freer?
When you ask those questions, something within you is already beginning to move.
Feel free to share below — I’m curious what your reason might be.
Do you recognize any of this?
Do you regularly feel discomfort, tension, or overload?
Or do you notice that your body struggles more than you’d like?
Feel free to respond. You’re probably not the only one.