I currently offer private Functional Integration® lessons for adults and children. Both forms of learning are custom designed to awaken the brain’s potential for learning, reorganizing, recovery and healing.

Private Functional Integration for Adults

These personalized lessons enhance self-awareness through skilled manipulation and gentle movements. You will lie comfortably on a padded table, fully clothed and supported. Your role will be to simply relax and notice what you are experiencing. I will move you in specific ways that allow us to better understand what movements are hard for you to access and which are easy. Slowly, new patterns of movement will be reintroduced, never exceeding your comfort level. The result is a wider range of choice and ease in how you do everything.

Learning Between Sessions:
Some simple movements and awareness exercises, or other suggestions for home practice may be given, in order to help you continue to learn from your session. You may also receive recorded Awareness Through Movement lessons to do at home.

Private Functional Integration for Children & Babies

The Feldenkrais for Children session is comprised of two components—hands on work done directly with your child and exploring ways for you to work with your child at home.

During the first 30-45 minutes of the session, hands on work will be done directly with your child. He or she will experience non-invasive and gentle movements to release any unnecessary tension in the muscles. Then he will be slowly introduced to larger movement patterns that relate to various motor developmental stages that an infant typically learns during the first nine months of life. These assisted motions stimulate the brain’s innate ability to form neurological pathways that will help your child initiate and improve movement on his own.

Teaching and Empowering Parents:
During the last 15-30 minutes of the session we will explore how you can work with your child at home.You will learn how to observe subtle changes that indicate that your child is integrating and continuing to improve on the new information learned in the session. You will learn how to mindfully touch your child and guide movements between sessions to continue his internal and external growing experiences. You will gain an understanding of how to best interact with your child in a way that will create opportunities for him to generate new movement independently and inspire learning during play at home.