Feldenkrais Lessons in Houston, The Woodlands, and Spring, Texas

Gika Rector is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner offering services in Houston, The Woodlands, and Spring, Texas, as well as online.

The Feldenkrais Method is a form of somatic education that uses gentle, mindful movement and directed attention to help you relearn how to move more efficiently. By heightening your body awareness, it aims to reduce chronic pain, improve posture, and enhance overall physical and cognitive function.

The Feldenkrais Method is taught through two vehicles: Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) lessons and Functional Integration® (FI) sessions. ATM lessons can be taught to individuals or groups, and consist of verbal directions through a sequence of movements. The individual movements range from slow, simple and gentle, to quick, rigorous and complex. The biggest constraint in every lesson is to move within a range that doesn’t cause pain, and to bring attention to how one moves.

FI sessions are taught to individuals, with the practitioner using his or her hands to guide the participant’s movements. The sequence of movements is specific to the individual and to that session. Generally, the movements are gentle and slow, bringing attention to the quality of movement, to unconscious constraints, and to improving the range and ease of movement.

ATM and FI lessons are designed to expand and refine the participant’s self image, to improve the quality of movement, to invite new possibilities. Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method, said that although he was a teacher, he couldn’t teach anybody anything; all he could do was create the conditions for learning. Feldenkrais lessons create an environment in which participants can bring attention and curiosity to who they are and to how they move—in their bodies and in the world.