I just returned from the first segment in a year-long training on using the Feldenkrais Method to help children with special needs.  I’ll be going back three more times, and in the interims I will have additional study and research to do. I have been working with special needs children for the last five years, and when I see how much the method can help them, I am eager to do more.

My teacher, Jeremy Krauss, was a student at Dr. Feldenkrais’s Amherst training. He followed him to Israel where he lived with and worked very closely with him, translating much of his work from Hebrew into English. His understanding of the method is profound. He has done a great deal of work with special needs children, and I have found him to be clear and generous teacher. When he offered this training, I signed up immediately.

Soon, I will be offering a free, informational workshop designed to help parents and caregivers understand how the Feldenkrais Method can help their children reach a new level of functioning. Watch this blog for details.

Children who benefit from this work include those with Cerebral Palsy, developmental delays, autism, ADHD, sensory processing deficits, various birth trauma including torticollis, brachial plexus injuries, and many more conditions. In order to work with as many children as possible over the next year, I am offering lessons to special needs children for half of my regular fee.

If you have, or know of someone who has a special needs child under the age of 12, please be in touch!

For more information, contact me at 845-206-1081, or christine@woodstockfeldenkrais.com

Thank you!

IN 1972, Moshe Feldenkrais taught a workshop at Esalen which was attended by many of the luminaries of that time and place. In the course of the workshop he taught 43 Awareness Through Movement lessons that clearly presented his major thinking. We’ve been going through the lessons in my Thursday ATM classes,  more or less in order. There will be no class next Thursday, October 13th, but the following week,  the 2:00 class will be a modified version of Lesson 14, Breath — Abdomen and Chest/Saika – Tanden (or Hara).At 3:30 I will be teaching Lesson 11, Lengthening Hamstrings.

The Feldenkrais Method is the most sophisticated and effective method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function. – Margaret Mead, Ph.D., Anthropologist

The Feldenkrais exercises are ingenious and simple. – Yehudi Menuhin, Concert Violinist

Feldenkrais is not just pushing muscles around, but changing things in the brain itself. – Karl Pribram, M.D., Neuroscientist, Georgetown University

As a neuroscientist interested in the development and plasticity of the nervous system, it is gratifying to see how the Feldenkrais Method demonstrates these principles. The Feldenkrais Method has also greatly improved my personal quality of life – physically and emotionally – by reducing the restrictions and limitations I thought were permanent due to multiple sclerosis. – Marla Luskin, Ph.D., Emory University Medical School