GIFTED AND ATHLETIC CHILDREN

Sometimes children need help by being challenged in ways that school or homeschool or their coaches, no matter how excellent, might not come up with.

ENHANCING EXCELLENCE IN SPORTS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE, DANCE, YOGA, MARTIAL ARTS, CREATIVITY

Photo: R. Dale
This work is superb for this, since the Feldenkrais work is based on a sublime principle...THAT THE CORE OF BEING HUMAN IS OUR ABILITY TO LEARN... and since this work likes to shake up the ongoing habit/ balance/ equilibrium to create a temporary discomfort and feeling of "I don't know," that leads to real breakthrough and understanding.

THIS WORK DOESN'T CARE IF YOU HAVE CEREBRAL PALSY OR ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD AT SOMETHING. WE ALL HAVE HUGE AREAS OF POTENTIAL LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT.

And in the Feldenkrais work and the WakeUp Feldenkrais work, that improvement is about honing our awareness and increasing our delight in discovering what is just beyond what we already know. ( This isn't about "pushing the edge," though, except with the courage to experiment and play with and enjoy the new. The struggle and effort to "improve," often makes hell for anyone and everyone).

If we aren't thrown into "I don't know," we never learn, and in the Feldenkrais work, especially WakeUp Feldenkrais with it's emphasis on being present, this state of converting the unknown to a sense of adventure and learning is paramount.

For amusement and learning, if you haven't read it, my explanations (true to the Feldenkrais Method, in about 12 different ways) of the method is quite good, and has a list of about 12 more essays on this subject. Peruse, if you wish What is..The Feldenkrais Method®?

Because core to this work is following the strategies of learning we used when we were a young genius and learned language from nothing, and crawling with no one to imitate, this work can stimulate anyone in the world to increase their abilities in either something they are already good in, or expand out and begin to establish proficiency in some totally new field.

THE CORE OF THE WORK IS LEARNING HOW TO LEARN. So for gifted children, this work can indeed be a gift.

To be certified in Feldenkrais requires 160 days of training. I have taken 111 days beyond this, including 27 in Anat Baniel's advanced Mastery Training for working with Children with Special Needs.Please read further, if you wish: Children with special needs by Anat Baniel.

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If you want to bring me to a group, or your family, or your team, I can arrange amazing lessons that increase thinking, moving, understanding, co-ordination, the whole Glories of Feldenkrais thing. The lessons are $100 per hour for however many people you bring together. And you'll need to commit to at least 6 lessons.

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I also offer lessons in a one to one format called Functional Integration®.

In these lessons, you lie, fully clothed, on a comfortable and firm low table while I move you with extreme gentleness and precision.

This not only feels great, but provides opportunities for your mind/ brain/ body system (i.e. you) to learn new
and
easier
and
sweeter ways of functioning.

These new ways not only
begin to undo and transform stress
and our old habits of tensing and contracting and limiting ourselves,
but
you begin to function in better ways
in other areas of your mind/ body
and your life.

This work is transformational,
enjoyable
and almost miraculous.
You deserve this, I believe.

My training consists of the "normal" 160 days
to become a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
and
an additional 127 days of training
including 49 with Anat Baniel
and
years of training in Gestalt, meditation,
nature centered healing, hypnosis, and more.

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I require an initial commitment
of 4 lessons to 6 lessons over a two week period.


If you want guarantees,
come to 6 lessons
3 days in a row one week,
3 days in a row the next,
and if you haven't experienced
transformative changes
in this time,
I'll cheerfully refund all your money.

Lessons last half an hour to forty minutes.

Stand alone lesson (less than once a week,
only after the initial four or six): $120.

Once a week (again, only after initial four or six): $100 per lesson.
Two days in a row: $90 per lesson.
Three days in a row: $80 per lesson.
Four or five days in a row: $70 per lesson.



Give yourself the gift of improvement,
from fair to good
or
good to great.

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Call for an appointment 707-996-1437

Or Email me


Thanks, and I hope this is a beginning of a wonderful transformation in your life.

Chris