Felden-Stretch

Description

“Feldenkrais for stretching… Is it a joke?”

You’ve likely heard that Feldenkrais is about “no effort,” but there is a common misunderstanding here. Indeed, improving movement is about reducing effort—but reducing effort is an active process that requires a great deal of concentration, sensitivity, and creativity.

In this workshop, I am taking you away from the “no effort” misunderstanding and towards a much deeper experience. Through practices that nurture the health of your joints, tendons, and ligaments, I invite you to stretch your mind out of the box and discover entirely new places in your movement.

Pascal, IFF certified Feldenkrais practitioner

The Self-Care Toolkit for Your Joints and Ligaments

Stretching is a natural, fundamental need of the human body; our tissues crave that expansion to maintain the deep health of our joints and ligaments. By creating space within the joints, we invite a sense of profound physical ease and effortless fluidity back into our daily lives.

Neurologically speaking, it is well known that security and safety are the key factors in improving flexibility and opening up this internal space. This is exactly where the Feldenkrais Method excels: by teaching the nervous system that it is safe to let go, we unlock a level of movement, lubrication, and structural freedom that forced effort can never reach.

Through the lessons in this workshop, we are stretching the Method further. We are taking the core principles of Feldenkrais and moving them into new directions—challenging our limits to build your personal Self-Care Toolkit for Your Joints and Ligaments, finding that perfect sweet spot where effort and intelligence meet.

Why this is for you?

This course is open to everyone, of all ages and physical conditions. It is specifically designed for:

• The Dedicated Practitioner: You practice Yoga, Taiji, Qigong, or similar arts and want to find a deeper neurological “edge” to your movements.
• The Curious Mind: You want to develop your understanding of the Feldenkrais Method® by exploring its outer boundaries.
• The Recovering Mover: You are looking to regain a better quality of movement after a recent or long-standing injury.
• The Skeptic: You usually find stretching painful or boring and are ready for a smarter, more energetic approach.

Whether you want to enrich an existing practice or simply regain energy and physical ease for your daily life, you will find the tools you need right here.

Each session includes:

• ATM Lesson: A guided Awareness Through Movement® sequence.
• Anatomy Explanation: Understanding the structure of your tissues and joints.
• Application to Stretching: Integrating Feldenkrais principles into functional stretching.

Conditions

• Format: Online Live Stream + Access to Replays
• When: Every Wednesday evening, 19:30
• Duration: 8 Sessions
• Schedule: Will be announced soon

Special Offers

• Pre-registration: Your early booking helps us organize effectively. We appreciate your support and offer a pre-registration discount until the final dates are published.
• Trainees: We support your continuous learning. Students in our Feldenkrais or Integratis training, please ask for your discount code before registering.