Individual sessions - Functional
Integration©
Individual lessons in Functional Integration are recommended for
specific issues of the kind that limit one’s movement or mobility. This
includes conditions causing chronic pain and also neurological
disorders.
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Functional Integration is also recommended for improving skills.
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Each lesson is individually tailored and typically
revolve around discovering your unique patterns in movement, and which
of these patterns are helping you, and could others be actually
contributing to your problem or situation. The larger part of the
lesson is non-verbal and gentle, non-invasive touch is used to help
both, - client and practitioner, explore the question together,
guiding, supporting, encouraging and helping the discovery or
uncovering of new healthier and more effective movement options...
The session is carried out on a wide, low table.
You are fully clothed (we ask you to wear loose fitting garments)
Most people find sessions somewhere between extremely relaxing at the
least, to completely life-changing at the best.
How many sessions are needed?
Feldenkrais can be compared to anything where organic learning –
somatic learning (‘soma’ is a Latin root meaning ‘of the body’) - as
opposed to academic learning - is involved. As with any holistic
therapy, working with the whole person implies that there are numerous
variants to be taken into consideration.
As with something like learning to play the piano, or to play tennis,
some people only ever take one or two lessons. They will remain
'beginners'.
Others may become more curious, or smitten, and go on to ‘learn scales
and chords’, or ‘how to serve and return as well as simply hit the
ball’.
A few people go on to become professionals and the greater proportion
probably fall somewhere in between.
With regard to the Feldenkrais Method, a lot depends on the needs or
requirements of the individual concerned.
Different people seek or are happy with, different levels of
improvement - and the reasons behind that are as numerous as the number
of people who have them.
Generally speaking though, the number of attendances often reflects the
depth of the presenting problem, and the level to which the individual
wants to take it.
You are always welcome to
book one session to try. We generally recommend
taking three, at which point it is usually clear if more are needed;
and often even how many more are needed, or whether continuing in
classes or workshops would be more appropriate.
- we offer discounts
on blocks of six or more sessions, booked and paid for in advance.
- Student and low
income discounts are
given if you bring your card.
- try an Intensive
– take four sessions in one week, or combine two with a workshop.
Cancellations within 48 hours of appointment may be
charged the full session fee