Movement Awareness

Movement Awareness is an important part of embodying and expressing the effects of the manual therapy process. It is an approach to moving and expressing yourself that uses your body’s internal awareness of felt sensation - inspired by the movement philosophies of Thomas Hanna somatics, Moshé Feldenkrais, and the Alexander Technique. Having movement awareness can promote a sense of ease and efficiency in that expression, reducing the amount of muscular effort that it takes to carry out movements.

It is a re-education process; that is, it uses felt sensation to teach and guide your body to move in new ways to help reinforce more efficient patterns which may have been lost due to injury, impact, etc. This takes away unnecessary strain on areas of the body that can occur from inefficient movement. These inefficient movements, although usually functionally helpful for you at some point, can become learned and patterned in your body. We aim to unlearn these patterns, and reinforce new ones. Re-learning is done in an ever changing, and exploratory way.

Learn more here:

Feldenkrais - Awareness Through Movement 1

Feldenkrais - Awareness Through Movement 2

The Alexander Technique Interview/Demo