Feel What?

Feldee is shorthand for the Feldenkrais Method and the feeling of lightness, physical ease and calm that comes during and after a Feldenkrais lesson. It’s also easier to pronounce than fel-den-cry-s and shorter than Awareness Through Movement.

And It Does That How? 

Your nervous system has two main modes  – fight and flight or rest and digest. Feldee lessons bring the brain and nervous system into the rest and digest state, thereby encouraging a feeling of calm and creating the environment where healthy neuroplasticity can occur.  Even though movement is involved, the focus of a lesson is not the movement itself, but learning to use our sense of internal awareness as a tool that allows  the brain to rewire itself so that we begin to move more efficiently, more gracefully, and, for some of us, far less painfully. Much like meditation, feldee lessons ask us to turn our attention away from internal chatter and worry, to become aware of what is happening at the moment and to bring what we notice into awareness without judging it. Applying this attitude of self acceptance to ourselves and the way we are in that particular moment is the basis of what it means to “feel feldee” not just immediately after a lesson but something we throughout our day and something we can tap into whenever we need to.