Intrinsic Rewards: Moving from Within
 Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education

Heather Danso, GCFPSchedule Appointment

A Transformative Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® Class

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Intrinsic rewards come from within, rather than from external validation.  They come from systematic changes, and how we value the changes that we have discovered through our learning process.
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As we learn to move (and relate, and communicate), we do the best we can to find something that works. However, our constructed habits of movement (and living) that served us, that were good enough once, eventually can lead to patterns of pain. Or just not feeling good.

I had to learn a new way. 

​The Feldenkrais Method® was instrumental in this process. By playing with movement in novel ways, we experience learning puzzles that help us access movement patterns out of context. That means we can question, discover, and try on new ways of being. 

I have met myself in so many different shapes and constraints that I have run into my old attitudes, and questioned if they served me.  What I was taught when I was young was a great place to start, but I didn’t understand then that what I learned was modelled on bodies that were not mine, cultural attitudes and actions that were based on what someone else believed, how someone else thought I should move, behave, and live.

Join this class to explore processes of learning that can improve your relationship with yourself (and others).

We build our idea of ourselves throughout our lives. Here is a place you can teach yourself to learn something that emerges from yourself.

Like all foundational learning, It is not a one-time process, but one time can offer you some insights.

Sure, pain relief happens here. But so does learning to stand in neutral during times of conflict. So does learning to rely on your own structure for support so that you feel more free to move.

Welcome one and all. ​

WHY DO FELDENKRAIS?

@International Feldenkrais Federation Robert Golden

Discover ways of moving that inspire, bring ease, or even challenge what you think you know about yourself.  Awareness Through Movement is a guided exploration of how you move and function that lights up areas of yourself that you may not be using, or may be using in a way that isn't optimal. 

• Interrupt old patterns of movement that perpetuate discomfort.
• Discover movement options that support your yoga, dance, walking, and even your sitting practices (including both work and meditation practices. 
• Be empowered to find your own way towards healthy living through movement.
• ​Renew your sense of playfulness, curiosity, and self-acceptance

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​Experience:
Your own deep insights gained through this facilitated Awareness through Movement® lesson (think playful, slow, exploratory floor work), and an opportunity for learning that will influence how you move through life.

Functional Integration®​​

Move better. Feel Better.

 What we do is find, together, a way to move and be in your body that is intrinsically rewarding to you, and that serves your healing journey. "

​We work with the nervous system--the brain--through touch. People report that over time they feel:

• Improved alignment, balance, stability, flexibility
• Greater comfort, reduced pain (backs, necks, joints)
• Improved sense of self; greater ease and self-confidence

​Feldenkrais sessions are opportunities to rest and restore, to engage with yourself on a deep level--making friends with yourself. Based in neuro-plasticity and functional anatomy, its about the body and its potential for movement, our sessions are also intuitive, and nourishing. 

These individualized, movement sessions, can help you find a way to move that is more yours--and that in turn can help you feel more at home. Through working with the body, we work with the whole person. Change happens through very gentle hands-on work, that is a reeducation and re-connection between brain and body. ​

More information

• ​Study on the efficacy of Feldenkrais Method®
• Learn about the Feldenkrais Method®

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​Heather Danso is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Restorative Yoga teacher and trainer, teaches Yoga for Parkinson's and movement disorders, Awareness Through Movement, and Dance. Her office is located in Madison Valley.

   Find your own way to do what you want, and expand your possibilities for movement, and thus your possibilities for how you engage with your life. ​Be yourself, and do it better. ​"