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Awareness Through Movement® South of LBJ

Do you work or live south of I-635? There are two Awareness Through Movement® series starting next week easy for you to reach. Choose the lunchtime series just south of downtown or the evening series near SMU.

Awareness Through Movement coming up at South Side on Lamar

Tsada Yoga is located in a beautiful loft on the 7th floor of SSOL.

Do you live or work close to downtown? Sign up for the four-class lunchtime series at Tsada Yoga, Nov. 7 through Dec. 5, noon to 1 pm. Note: we’ll skip Thanksgiving. Limit: 10. Tsada is in South Side on Lamar, close to The Cedars DART stop. Register on Tsada’s website.

Awareness Through Movement coming up in Snider Plaza

OmBalance is located on the 2nd floor of this building.

If the SMU area is more convenient, sign up for the four-class series at OmBalance in Snider Plaza. We’ll meet from 7 to 8 pm, Nov. 7 through Dec. 5, skipping Thanksgiving. Register via Brown Paper Tickets.

 

More About Functional Integration®: What to Expect in a Private Lesson

Example of Functional Integration.

Several times recently I’ve been asked, “is a private lesson like a group Feldenkrais class?”

Group classes—Awareness Through Movement® (ATM)—and what we call Functional Integration (FI), private lessons, are both based on the techniques Moshe Feldenkrais developed. The basis of both is learning about your physical self, becoming aware of how you move and expanding  movement choices.

In an ATM class, each student takes responsibility for personalizing the lesson. I lead you through the movement sequences, direct your attention, and sometimes offer other options for a movement. I choose the particular lesson with all the students in mind.

In contrast, in FI, you set the goal for each lesson, or the series of lessons we plan together. We spend an hour or so during each FI exploring your goal. I create a lesson based on how you are, at the time that we are working together, and what we discover. For example, you might arrive with the goal of holding yourself more erect as you stand and walk. As we explore your habitual way of moving, we might discover that your preference is to keep your pelvis still. So I spend time showing you, with gentle touch and sometimes with direction for movements you initiate, the difference between a fixed pelvis and a mobile one, and how that affects your posture—how the rest of you moves, or doesn’t.

Here’s an FI demo by one of my trainers, David Zemach-Bersin. Not exactly a private lesson! But you’ll get a better sense of what this one-on-one work is like.

The Feldenkrais Method In Action, with David Zemach-Bersin at the Feldenkrais Institute of New York

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Please let me know if you’d like to discuss how a series of private lessons can benefit you. I currently offer FIs Tuesdays and Fridays. My rates are $65 for the first lesson, $50 for lessons following. After Labor Day, these increase to $75 and $60.