1/20/10 news update:
Welcome to Moving Awareness! The JCC and I are pleased to begin offering evening Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes on February 4th.
This ATM class will run Thursday nights, 5:30-6:30 PM, February 4th through March 25th at the St. Paul JCC. Tuition for the eight class series is $70 for JCC members and $110 for non-members. Register now until February 1st, either online at stpauljcc.org or by calling the front desk at 651-698-0751. The Thursday class will feature different but complementary lessons to the ongoing 9:30 AM Monday morning class. Drop-in attendance is still available for the Monday class, and it is possible to attend and benefit from both weekly classes. More details are below.
If you’re new to Feldenkrais, ATM is a great way to encounter the method and start unlocking your potential for graceful, efficient movement. If you have health, pain, or movement concerns about whether you would be able to take and benefit from the class, please contact me at 917-575-7380.
Full information about both classes is below, and on the JCC website. To view a video about ATM classes, scroll down on this page. Or feel free to call 917-575-7380 or e-mail nick@movingawareness.com for more information.
My popular introductory offer for individual study continues. If you haven’t experienced Functional Integration yet, please come enjoy the potent benefits of three one-hour individual hands-on FI lessons for $90, total. There is no better way to address your pain reduction and self-improvement goals than the neuromuscular reorganization possible through hands-on Feldenkrais. For continued individual study after your introductory three lessons, I use a set-your-own-fee sliding scale, from $30-90 per lesson. Please scroll down for more information.
1/5/10 update:
Please find important new information below about my reworked $30-$90 sliding scale for individual Functional Integration lessons, as well as information about my group Awareness Through Movement classes at the St. Paul JCC.
New sliding scale for one-on-one Functional Integration: $30-$90 set-your-own fee
I recognize that my students’ wellness goals and financial circumstances vary. To ensure that you are able to come for lessons often enough and long enough to achieve lasting improvement, I have recently revised my sliding scale. I am committing to a lower fee, higher volume health care model that will be more beneficial for more people. These days health care as a whole is deeply divided along class lines; I teach using a sliding scale so that my practice isn’t.
- All current and new students (after their introductory three lessons for $90) are now asked to set their own fee, between $30 and $90 per lesson.
- At the request of some students who asked for guidance in choosing their fee I have created a sliding scale explanation and recommendations page which I now give to all my students. Click here to view a pdf version. This sheet answers most of the common questions about this unusual and liberal fee structure, and I hope you’ll read it.
- As always, new students receive their first three one-hour individual lessons for $90 total.
Public Awareness Through Movement classes at the St. Paul JCC
Move better, feel better! Everything we do in life involves sensation and movement. The Feldenkrais Method uses your brain’s deepest means of improvement -”neuroplasticity” – to create change.
- ENJOY your body in motion and improve the quality of your day-to-day life.
- DISCOVER how to prevent or recover from injury.
- REFINE your workouts and physical practices like yoga.
- LEARN to organize your whole self – body and mind – more efficiently.
- UNLOCK a quieter state of mind, a natural neurological response to clarified movement and reduced extraneous effort.
These classes use exploratory movements and guided attention to evoke new neuro-muscular patterns in the brain, improving your strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and focus in an easy and pleasurable way.
Invented 50 years ago by Israeli athlete and physicist Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the Feldenkrais Method has been called “a revolution in human health” by Smithsonian Magazine. Students call the Feldenkrais Method “the missing link in fitness” and “a user’s guide to the human body.”
FULL MONDAY MORNING CLASS DETAILS
- Mondays, January 4th-March 22, 9:30 – 10:30 am
- 12 classes, JCC Member: $105.00; Non-Member: $165.00. This fee reflects the JCC’s new quarterly registration — per class cost is reduced.
- This class is held in the JCC’s Pilates Studio.
- AS OF 1/20/10, DROP-IN SPACE IS AVAILABLE, $10 for JCC members, $15 for non-members. Please contact Nick (917-575-7380 or nick@movingawareness.com) or the JCC (651-698-0751) to inquire.
FULL THURSDAY EVENING CLASS DETAILS
- Thursdays, February 4th-March 25, 5:30 – 6:30 pm
- 8 class tuition, JCC Member: $70; Non-Member: $110.00. This fee reflects the JCC’s new quarterly registration — per class cost is reduced.
- Register by Monday, February 4th by calling the JCC (651-698-0751) or registering online at the St. Paul JCC.
- This class is held in the JCC’s Mind/Body studio.
A video about Feldenkrais ATM classes can be found below!
Please dress in layers so you will be comfortable with the variable temperature in the room. Bring a towel for use in class.
What is the Feldenkrais Method?
Feldenkrais is a system of movement education with applications similar to physical therapy, but more holistic. When someone wants to reduce pain, recover from an injury, or improve an aspect of themselves (anything movement, balance, posture, or performance related), a Feldenkrais lesson addresses the whole person – not just the symptom – by eliciting changes in the nervous system. Scientists call this process “neuroplasticity” – the brain’s extraordinary ability to acquire more efficient patterns of movement and action if given the right environment. Nothing creates that environment like the Feldenkrais Method. Lessons are pleasant and effortless, and done fully clothed. For the one-on-one Feldenkrais modality, called Functional Integration (FI), lessons are done lying on a low, comfortable table, with the practitioner using a gentle, non-invasive touch. Students describe lessons as pleasurable and relaxing, and you will find reduction in pain, specific improvements to how you function in your day-to-day life, and tools for continuing to improve yourself.
The following short video is an introduction to the group modality of the Feldenkrais Method, classes called Awareness Through Movement, as they are taught in wellness centers and fitness clubs.
The Feldenkrais Method uses gentle movement and directed attention to improve movement, enhance human functioning, and relieve chronic or acute pain. With this method, you can increase your range of motion, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your innate capacity for graceful, efficient movement. By expanding the self-image through movement sequences, the method enables you to include more of yourself in your movements. Students become aware of their habitual neuromuscular patterns and rigidities, and learn to move in new ways.
You can learn more about the Feldenkrais Method, including answers to frequently asked questions, testimonials, and research here.
The Practitioner
| Nicholas Strauss-Klein, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practionercm, is a graduate of the New York Feldenkrais Method Professional Training Program and has studied the method for eight years in New York City, Baltimore, and Israel. He brings to his Feldenkrais practice the unique background of an advanced Master of Music Pedagogy degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and 15 years of individual and class teaching experience.
He currently teaches Feldenkrais to students pursuing all types of improvement: healthy people who are interested in making their day-to-day activities more effective and pleasant, people seeking to enhance their fitness training and athletic performance, musicians, dancers, and performing artists, and people recovering from injuries or living with disease or disabilities. E-mail nick@movingawareness.com, or call 917-575-7380 for more information about the method or to schedule a lesson. |
Nick, Jen, and Henry Strauss-Klein |
Lessons and Class Schedule
I teach one-on-one Functional Integration lessons by appointment in my studio at our home in Eagan, just south of St. Paul, convenient to I-35E and I-494. Lessons are about one hour, by appointment, throughout the day and evening on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and most Sunday mornings. We will try to schedule your three introductory FI lessons ($90 total) within a short period to maximize the benefits. Please call 917-575-7380 or e-mail nick@movingawareness.com with questions or to make appointments.
Awareness Through Movement classes:
Group Awareness Through Movement Feldenkrais Method are ongoing. See the top of this page!
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration® are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America.
Some photos by Rosalie O’Connor www.rosalieoconnor.com