How can something so subtle really work? How can something that often looks like nothing is being done be effective? How can movements so small and slow create lasting, effective changes for people?
How does FELDENKRAIS work? It reduces the constant stimulus of the nervous system. We live in an
unconscious state of hypermobilization, distraction and pain from old
injuries to the body and the psyche. It offers learned self awareness
that gives you immediate access to ease, possibility and a new
alignment. Polyvagal Theory explains why what may appear to be doing
nothing, or so little that it's almost imperceptible, can have such an
impact on the sense of well being. Because we get stuck in one way of
responding to life due to injury, or accident, or a lifetime of little,
additional shocks to the system, only a sense of safety can allow us to
move out of that place.
The polyvagal part of the autonomic nervous
system includes these 3 stages of development: Immobilization,
mobilization, and social communication or social engagement. By working
to reduce the excessive stimulus of the polyvagal system, the body is
able to come out of living in a perpetual state of unconscious
hyperarousal. New neuroception allows neural circuits to distinguish
that one is finally safe, and can resume normal function. It feels like
greater awareness, comfort, stability and mobility; it feels like the
absence of restriction, the sense of spontaneous well being. It offers
an improvement in function that addresses even restrictions you were
previously unaware of, in addition to the ones you are actually acutely
annoyed or hindered by!
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