to the Feldenkrias® Movement Center of Minneapolis, Minnesota. We are dedicated to rediscovering movement and bringing about personal health and well-being.

What is the Feldenkrais method?

The Feldenkrais Method® is a form of Somatic Education that uses an exploratory process of learning to expand movement potential, improve alignment and reduce injuries. By utilizing the inherent intelligence of the nervous system, each person discovers new ways of using themselves with more ease, grace and power.

Developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, physicist, engineer and judo master, in the late 1940's, the Feldenkrais Method® has two avenues of learning. The first is the group movement class called Awareness Through Movement® and the second is Functional Integration® the private hands-on form of the Feldenkrais Method. Moshe Feldenkrais developed these methods of self-awareness and movement refinement from his extensive knowledge of human development, neurology, engineering and eastern movement practices. Combining this knowledge, he developed a process of working with the nervous system to expand potential by addressing the process of learning itself. How is it we come to move the way we do? How is it we develop poor habits of moving over our lifetime and relinquish our ability to move/think with responsiveness and adaptability to change? This is a the core of the Feldenkrais Method and the crux for provoking change in our movement potential.