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Improve your overall health & wellbeing here in Wellington when you organise your next appointment with Alan Cameron's Feldenkrais Method
What is the Feldenkrais Method?
The Feldenkrais® Method improves your everyday functioning by increasing your awareness of your body habits. This awareness creates the conditions for changing these habits to better serve you in daily activities – from brushing your teeth, to gardening or playing sports.
For example you may come to a class or to an individual lesson with a specific difficulty such as a troublesome shoulder or hip, or lower back pain.
Your learning in the method is available in two forms:
- Group Lessons — Awareness Through Movement® (ATM)
- Individual lessons — Functional Integration® (FI)
Group Lessons — Awareness Through Movement®
These classes provide students with an opportunity to explore the way in which they move to increase awareness of habitual patterns.
The lessons are usually performed slowly at the beginning in order to facilitate learning via the motor-sensory cortex of the brain. They are usually carried out with the student lying on the floor. These are optimal conditions for efficient learning to take place. Lying on the floor reduces stress on the nervous system and provides sensory information about the student’s patterns of standing, sitting, walking and any other work or recreational activities.
When done with care and attention the student experiences relief of unnecessary effort (reducing muscle tension) and pleasure in movement.
- Tuesdays 11 AM -12 noon, St John’s Hall cnr Karori Road & Campbell St, Karori, Wellington;
- Wednesdays 6-7 PM, and and 7:15-8:15 PM St Ninian’s Church Lounge cnr Karori Road & Newcombe Crescent, Karori, Wellington
Fees: $100.00 per term (8 lessons) Casual $15.00 per lesson
Individual lessons — Functional Integration® (FI)
These lessons are carried out on a one-to-one basis. The practitioner moves the client in order to discover existing habitual patterns and to explore options for more efficient movement and overall functioning. At the end of a session the client normally experiences a new and satisfying integrated sense of self at rest and in action.
Lessons are most often done on a specifically designed table but can also be done in sitting and standing positions.
Both of these forms of learning (ATM and FI) occur through the nervous system. They release muscular tension throughout the body and awaken under-used muscles and parts of us that can contribute to more efficient and effective daily functioning.
- Fridays 9am-6pm Floor 10 Greenock House, 30 The Terrace, Wellington CBD
Other times and venues by arrangement
Fees: $70.00 for one hour lesson
About Alan
M.N.Z.F.G. LLB (Hons), LLM
Alan is a Feldenkrais Method® practitioner (Wellington Feldenkrais Professional Training 2007–10) and a member of Natural Health Practitioners New Zealand.
He tried many kinds of therapies for his chronic migraine headaches and found the Feldenkrais Method® of increasing self-awareness through movement to be the only effective long-term solution. At the same time his overall daily functioning and recreational activities significantly improved.
In both his classes and individual sessions Alan works with a wide range of people and functional disabilities, including nervous system-related disabilities, such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and brain injuries. He enjoys helping to improve the functioning of people of all ages in their occupations and daily activities.
He is currently a member of the New Zealand Feldenkrais Guild and serves on its executive committee with responsibilities for governance and liaising with public health and other bodies such as the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).
Alan also has an LLB (Hons) and Master of Laws in Jurisprudence. He retired from Victoria University of Wellington in 2008 as senior lecturer after 33 years teaching commercial law.
His academic interests include theory of the human body and the Feldenkrais® Method, philosophy of law, and theory of interdisciplinary concepts. He is an active sportsman (cricket) and enjoys walking Flora, a miniature schnauzer. His other recreational interests include singing, native plants, and reading the books of Alexander McCall-Smith.
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Service Categories
Children’s Health, Feldenkrais, Mens Health, Sports Injury Therapy, Womens Health
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