Instantly eliminate strain and pain in your hands and fingers. Deeply relax your body and mind.
These sessions not only help you to let go of stress, strain and pain in your hands and fingers, they also deeply relax your nervous system.
How?
The movements of your hands and fingers have been estimated to take up to 40% of the activity of your motor cortex. And these sessions use subtle, gentle Feldenkrais movement to relax and de-stress your hands and motor cortex simultaneously.
This not only lead to better movement and less pain and strain in your hands, but also a calming of your entire nervous system via your motor cortex. Feldenkrais was experimenting with and refining these ideas from the 1950s right up until his last public training in 1981. And the sessions below are a integration of those ideas.
New for 2024: Introductory Chair Hand Exploration: Kickstart your journey to relaxation with this chair session. It offers simple, gentle hand movements that help ease tension and stress.
#1: Your Dominant Hand: Dozens of hand and finger movements to delete stress and strain in your fingers and hands. Deeply, deeply, relaxing. (I used to get cramping and pain from spending too much time typing on the computer and this session eliminated that discomfort).
#2 Surgeon's Hands: Gentle movements to bring your fingers and hands more deeply into your body image and self-awareness. You can use these gentle neuro-muscular movements to relax you no matter where you are - at home, at the office, at a coffee shop. You choose.
#3 Bell Hand Number 1: A favorite of Feldenkrais fans and practitioners all over the world. Engage the developmentally early and ancient parts of you brain: this session engages the primal parts of your brain activated in early development (when first learning to use the hands).
#4 Bell Hand Number 2: Deeper and deeper, similar to the session above but a bit longer and done on your stomach and side. Perfect for doing at night when you are ready to sleep. Your body will meditate on calmness all night long.
#5 Rhythmic Tapping: A classic bonus session from Moshe's famed Esalen workshop. This one works with finding your natural relaxation rhythm and gentle, unique movements of your fingers and hands.
#6 Back Goes Back With A Little Bell Hand: A side-lying session (you can do it in bed) developed from experimenting with "bell hand" movements to engage the lower back and core muscles. Discover and learn from this unique approach to enhancing back comfort.
*Transcripts of all sessions are included at no additional cost
*Do the sessions in the course area and you can also download them to keep in your permanent Feldenkrais library.
The sessions are primarily done while lying on a Yoga mat or other padded surface. You can do them in bed in the morning or at night. And after you do the sessions several times, you can experiment with doing them while sitting.