The Feldenkrais Method works on the re-education of body movement to achieve greater well-being, not only physical, but also mental. The practice allows you to have a greater awareness of each part of the body and to improve even the small daily gestures.
There is no time in life when you stop learning (as long as you want to). And there is a method to learn how to improve the quality of lifethrough movement. Is called Feldenkrais method and provides for a sort of self-education through certain body movements. The method spread throughout Italy in the 1980s thanks to several teachers who learned the method abroad.
Then in 1987 was born theAIMF, the Italian Feldenkrais Method Association, the main contact person for teaching and promoting the method. In Italy there are five schools to teach this method and all referable to theAIMF; the training is four years and includes a final exam for qualification.
Origins
The Method was created in 1949 by Moshe Feldenkraisafter the latter had suffered a knee injury. Prior to this Feldenkrais had specialized in martial arts, obtaining the black belt for judo and founding the first French judo club. In any case, the knee injury was an opportunity to perfect the movement re-education method.
The Feldenkrais Method uses movement to develop full self-awareness and improve one’s self-image.
Feldenkrais disclosed this method after having experimented it on himself for a long time and obviously having seen its benefits through practice. According to Moshe Feldenkrais, movement is a simple means and directed for “understanding what we don’t know we don’t know” and, in this sense, one can learn to perceive and involve parts of the body that we partially use. The purpose? Rediscover well-being.
A chi serve
the Feldenkrais method finds various applications starting from back pain to the neck, or to relieve a condition of physical stress. For example, following a trauma, it is possible that the motor or perceptive ability has consequences: in this case the Feleden Kris method can re-educate the body to perform certain movements by relieving tension and reducing pain.
Benefits
Il Feldenkrais method increases awareness of the body in motion. You get to this goal by freeing yourself from muscle tensionsdeveloping the proprioception and improving both physical and mental flexibility. Not only.
Physically the method improves respiratory function and allows you to acquire a more correct posture, thus also improving the image one has of oneself. These changes have positive effects on the mental and emotional well-being and, in this way, it is possible to realize that even the tensions and worries of everyday life can be managed better when one enjoys a state of widespread well-being.
Contraindications
The Feldenkrais Method is suitable for people of all ages, from children to adults, even reaching the elderly. The method, in fact, does not has contraindications because it works on everyone’s personal characteristics to develop their potential and thus obtain an improvement in physical and mental fitness.
Exercises
For example, if you wanted to untie neck and shoulders after a long day at the office, try this exercise Feldenkrais method.
Stay seated in the chair and find a comfortable position. Start nodding your head slowly a number of times. Then do it again, following the movement with his eyes: he looks down when you bend his head, up when you raise it. Gradually he tries to widen the range of motion. Repeat five to ten times. At the end of the exercise, your shoulders and neck should feel looser and your back less stiff.
For the back one more exercise can be added. In the supine position, with your arms along your sides, rotate your head to the right and left, paying attention to the sensations experienced.
Then bend your legs so that the soles of your feet touch the floor and swing your knees to the right and left, becoming aware of the mobility of both the hips and the pelvis.
Then stretch your arms towards the ceiling and bring your palms together. He tilts your arms to the right and to the left, keeping your back partially in contact with the ground, without tensing up. Repeat five to ten times.
