Feldenkrais Awareness Method with Andrew Wright

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Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® classes are a pleasant, interesting and effective way to improve movement ability, expand awareness, heal from injury, reduce pain, address physical restrictions, and increase emotional quality and expression.

Andrew Wright brings over 20 years of experience in Feldenkrais and bodywork, and a warm, personal and knowledgeable style to his teaching and healing work.

The Feldenkrais Method®
Unlike many forms of bodywork, the Feldenkrais Method works primarily through the nervous system. Using the same approach to body learning that we all used as babies, the nervous system reprogrammed to break counter productive habits, and to promote skeletally based movement. When the skeleton is doing its job correctly, the muscles are more relaxed and act more powerfully.

Originally developed by noted physicist and judo master, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in the 1940s, the method offers both group classes and hands on work. Many people find relief from injuries and limitations; others achieve more skilled movement, or improve expression or awareness.

Group classes
Andrew talks you through movement sequences, demonstrating when necessary. The classes are generally very pleasant, and give a greater sense of well being and awareness. Each series of classes follows a theme, such as removing stress from the body, or the neck and shoulders, and each class is different, and systematic in an often non-linear way. The goal is greater awareness and to improve the unconscious use of the self. Unlike most types of movement classes, students do not attempt to copy the teacher, or to achieve an idealized movement, but rather improve relative to their starting point. Andrew has been teaching Feldenkrais classes since 1988.

Hands on sessions
Andrew uses hands on guidance to address habits and issues that would take longer to resolve in a class setting. You wear loose fitting comfortable clothing, and lie on a padded table. Sometimes you may be sitting or standing. Sessions are gentle and pleasurable. The goal is more than relieving tension or feeling good (although that usually happens), it is improving how you connect to your body. Andrew has given over 20, 000 sessions and can help people with a wide variety of concerns.

About Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright is a senior Feldenkrais Practitioner, who has been in full time practice since 1989. Andrew also holds a B.Sc. in Movement Science with a double major in biomechanics and Exercise therapy. Andrew first became involved with the Feldenkrais Method in 1985 while successfully healing from a serious back injury. In addition to Feldenkrais Andrew has studied many other modalities, which he incorporates into his work. Andrew has a 10 year daily practice of tai ji and qi gong. He studied closely with leading Chen style teacher Master Zhang (see website www.silkreeler.com ), and with Mantak Chia. He also has extensive training in visceral mobilization, Chi Nei Tsang internal organs massage, and cranial techniques, and meditation, Andrew has taught in universities, hospitals and institutions in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Andrew is currently working on a book about the role of body sensations in how we think, feel and move.

For more information about Andrew, his classes, private practice, and his audio and video CDs and cassettes, please call 415-424-0203, or visit his website www.mybodysense.com