Individual sessions - 3 options

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• Functional Integration© a hands-on individual Feldenkrais lesson - more below

 

• Individual Awareness Through Movement - a verbally guided movement lesson just like a class lesson (see Classes & Workshops) but tailored and adapted to meet and work with your particular need. Either Online via Zoom or In Person, lessons are 60-75 mins. In line with standard professional practice, everything discussed is strictly confidential.

 

• Somatic Counselling a body-based assisted inquiry that differs from any other kind of Counselling being primarily focused on the body and the felt sense. Especially helpful for long-standing issues and trauma, a session can illuminate the physiological patterns that can often underlie our postural and movement issues from the perspective of the body and the felt sense, rather than from mental understanding. In line with standard professional practice, everything discussed is strictly confidential.

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More About Functional Integration©

Lessons involve gentle physical contact and movement work, where I am moving you. FI (as it is colloquially known) is a two-way neurological dialogue that re-educates or re-trains the brain and therefore the whole person. Working holistically the whole of you and your situation are taken into consideration.

 

Helps conditions which cause

• chronic joint or musculo-skeletal pain - including back pain or neck pain
• repetitive strain injuries - includes frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome
• injury where there is emotional trauma - stress
• neurological disorders - includes stroke, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis
• rehabilitation, pre- and post-operative

Also helps improve movement skills such as

• sports performance like running, martial arts, horse riding, surfing, swimming or golf
• playing musical instruments
• gardening, hiking, cycling - anything that requires repetitive movement
• work-related skills like using a computer or other equipment

 

 

 

How does an FI lesson go?

You are fully clothed in loose fitting garments without belts/zips.

Your session is unique to you (unlike an ATM class) and tailored to whatever issues you bring on the day. We discuss how you feel, and are currently affected/limited, also your aspirations. In line with standard professional practice, everything discussed is strictly confidential.

You then lie, or sit, on a special low wide table/mat, and are made as comfy as possible with supports. Now begins the hands-on part, which is usually largely non-verbal. I use gentle,precise yet non-invasive manipulation and touch. My focus is on discovering your particular habits and patterns or organization in movement and in suggesting more functional ones. The process requires your presence, this is a vital important component - . I will encourage you to remain awake and attentive to your experience, to sensation and feeling, throughout, and guide you to notice your responses to the process, communicating to me any increase in pain or discomfort, (we can always change the working position) or insights and benefits.

At the end I'll give you some movement to do at home to help support your nervous system and brain integrate the session.

 

How many will I need and how often?

Start with a single FI. See how you like it and how you feel about us working together. If you do and I feel that what I do can be helpful to you then take 3 sessions at intervals of no more than 3 weeks apart. This is usually sufficient to make some steady improvement. Sometimes this is enough, generally people need 6-12 lessons depending on your particular issues, how longstanding they are, and their severity - together with your aspirations and what you want to achieve. The most effective seems to be when FI and ATM are combined.

 

I do not see Feldenkrais as a quick fix, as it is a process of Somatic re-education where Incremental improvement lays good foundations for lasting improvement since building a sense of safety for the nervous system must be established first. This process also has the added benefit that you learn to be able to help yourself.

Commonly about 12 sessions is enough for most people except where there is a long-term chronic issue in which case a session a month ongoingly may be appropriate.

I also offer intensives where you take a few sessions at almost daily intervals, which can be a very effective way of working, in some circumstances.

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The best results seem to occur when FI and ATM classes are combined over a period of time and many people enjoy this. Remember! different people learn or improve at different rate, and have different aspirations. Like learning anything new at all, time, energy and attention are always part of the equation. It can be a fulfilling and life-enriching experience.

 

How much?

• Please see our Choose Your Level fees>
• In-person sessions last 60-75 mins
• Online session 60 mins
• Take a Block of 6 and receive 10% discount.
• Take an Intensive - a Blocks of 4 taken within a 2 week period receive 10% discount

 

Bookings Terms

For all Individual Sessions.

• Fees are due before your appointment if you will pay by bank transfer or at your appointment in cash. For block bookings the full amount is due at or before the first appointment.
• Changes or Cancellations made within 48 hours of your appointment for whatever reason will be charged full amount due.
• Cancellation fees can be avoided by giving more than 48 hours notice or, changing to another appointment time - subject to availability - within 7 days.
• Missed appointments will be charged the full amount due.
• Late payments made after an appointment date incur £2 late fee, and for every 7 days thereafter, £5 will be added to the amount outstanding.
• When you confirm attendance for Online sessions, this will be taken as your agreement that you agree to our Disclaimer, which essentially says that you participate at your own risk and that you are fully responsible for your own wellbeing. Please read Disclaimer>

 

 

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Yes my hip replacement was necessary but I actually feel that the lessons I've taken away from our sessions are just as necessary". Elise