Because well-being
is a balance.
High reward, not high risk
Feldenkrais First places you upstream of your habits of coordination to deepen the way you improve, learn and live. It centers you in the space before ignorance is added to effort. It is both the off-ramp from your corrosive patterns and the injuries they maintain, and the intelligent on-ramp to the activities you love and the functional longevity you deserve.
Slow the function down.
Let the real work begin.
Slowing down is one of the smartest moves you’ll ever make. The seat of executive function—the neocortex—evolved last and is the slowest part of your brain. Since coordination includes several layers of behavior (thinking, sensing, emotions and action), adjusting the speed so your brain can better integrate these layers just makes sense.
The Awareness Through Movement practices taught throughout the Feldenkrais First app help you solve problems at the level they’re actually created.
Coordination is the language of the brain.
Your gears of learning power your performance.
Most of us live downstream of our habits of movement. These patterns were built during infancy through trial and error, until you and your habits became one. This was a training of sorts, but not likely one you remember. Yet you’re living it all the time.
Feldenkrais First taps your deepest potential for improvement as you learn to learn again. This is especially relevant if you desire a self-image integrated with your senses and supported by healthy coordination, curiosity and connection.
Understanding is healthier than using force.
Exercise is a performance of coordination, not a refinement of it.
Awareness Through Movement is a powerful tool that teaches you how to discriminate before you commit. This puts you upstream of your habits, in the place where you can truly shape your resources of attention, balance, flexibility, and strength. It’s a safer and more stable way to improve.
The skills you gain will support and enhance every other practice and activity you do.
Keep your lens clean.
Sensing effort is a key to efficiency.
Like dirt on a lens, your unconscious habits of effort often distort your potential for elegance. But there’s a solution.
Awareness Through Movement gives you an intelligent way to sense, qualify and compose your coordination, so you can perceive the world and yourself in it with greater clarity, ease and compassion.