The Source of Pain
Pain often occurs where we move too much and is complicated by places that have stopped moving due to age, posture, or compensation after injuries. When these stuck places are free to move, the places where we experience pain often improve. You might, for example feel pain in your neck or low back, but have little movement available in your ribs. This might look like head-forward posture, along with shoulder pain, hip pain, or sciatica. By freeing the ribs to move, and working with your spine and whole body, your posture can naturally correct itself: breathing will be easier, and pain will be lessened.
How Feldenkrais can help
Feldenkrais Sessions are called functional integration partly because the sessions help you to move better, helping you to integrate easier and more healthy ways of moving and being into your daily life. Feldenkrais sessions are opportunities to rest and restore, to engage with yourself on a deep level--making friends with yourself. Based in neuro-plasticity and functional anatomy, its about the body and its potential for movement, our sessions are also intuitive, and nourishing.
I work with you: your nervous system, your brain, through hands on touch and movement, rocking, and re-awakening healthy developmental patterns that you can access no matter your age. People report that over time they feel
I work with you: your nervous system, your brain, through hands on touch and movement, rocking, and re-awakening healthy developmental patterns that you can access no matter your age. People report that over time they feel
- Improved alignment, balance, stability, flexibility
- Greater comfort, reduced pain (backs, necks, joints)
- Improved sense of self; greater ease and self-confidence
- Decreased pain (including fewer migraines)
- More ability to access pain free states on their own
- More access to many ways to move in all directions
Feldenkrais for infants and children
Whether your baby or child was born with an injury or something happened after birth we can support their intrinsic desire to learn by creating a safe and rich environment in which to explore a healthy variety of movements. Lessons will explore developmental patterns through a process of play, discovery, and exploration.
Heather has a playful approach with infants and young children. She follows and engages with them where they are, creating openings for new movement patterns, building on the repertoire the child already has. She invites, without imposing, sees without pathologizing. This is true for all clients, but even especially true with children.
Depending on the age of your child, sessions are generally shorter than for adult clients, with added transition time before and after for infants.
For more information on Feldenkrais for infants, read here: For Babies & Children - Feldenkrais Method
Heather has a playful approach with infants and young children. She follows and engages with them where they are, creating openings for new movement patterns, building on the repertoire the child already has. She invites, without imposing, sees without pathologizing. This is true for all clients, but even especially true with children.
Depending on the age of your child, sessions are generally shorter than for adult clients, with added transition time before and after for infants.
For more information on Feldenkrais for infants, read here: For Babies & Children - Feldenkrais Method
Rates
$125 for a session (1st sessions are 75 minutes, returning visits are 1hr)
Sliding scale is available for those who are experiencing food insecurity, difficulty paying rent, or difficulty paying medical bills. Please ask me about this by email prior to scheduling.
Sliding scale is available for those who are experiencing food insecurity, difficulty paying rent, or difficulty paying medical bills. Please ask me about this by email prior to scheduling.
What you learn is yours
These individualized, movement sessions, can help you find a way to move that is more yours--and that in turn can help you feel more at home. Through working with the body, we work with the whole person. Change happens through very gentle hands-on work, that is a reeducation and re-connection between brain and body.
Deeply relaxing and restful, hands-on sessions. People report that these sessions are often more relaxing even than massage. Perhaps that's due to our working with deep layers of developmental learning, connected back to how you learned to move at the earliest stages of life.
What we do is find, together, a way to move and be in your body that is intrinsically rewarding to you, and that serves your healing journey.
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Heather Emanuel is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Restorative Yoga teacher and trainer, teaches Yoga for Parkinson's and movement disorders, Awareness Through Movement, and Dance. Her office is located in Madison Valley.
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Here is what a sesson might look like:
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Find your own way to do what you want, and expand your possibilities for movement, and thus your possibilities for how you engage with your life. Be yourself, and do it better.