PAUL’S CLIENTS

“Initially, I came to see Paul after attending group sessions at the retirement community in which I live. His class and individual sessions are top priorities on my schedule. My chronic backache and neck pain has become almost nonexistent. There has been an immeasurable increase in my sense of well being as a result.” Jackie Z., age 82

“His approach is quite different from other therapies. I’ve learned to be more gentle with myself, and listen to my body, as opposed to the aggressive stretching exercises I’d been doing.” Sharon S., age 37

“I highly recommend Paul’s work. His unique approach has proved most helpful with patients with musculosketetal pain, even when other therapies had not helped.” Tom T., MD

“The movements I learned from Paul enable me to work myself out of a potentially painful situation before it is allowed to flourish.” Betty T., age 45

“I came to Paul to get relief for my back injury caused by an auto accident. Not only did I get relief, I gained an entirely new understandign of movement that I’m using in dance.” Melody C., age 45

“During our work, I experienced a breakthrough in a 9 year pain cycle, and learned to respect and enjoy my body in a way I never thought I could.” Lori S., age 33

Feldenkrais Method Testimonials

Andrew Weil, M.D., Author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health and Spontaneous Healing
“Feldenkrais work is innovative, gentle and often strikingly effective at rehabilitating victims of trauma, cerebral palsy, stroke, and other serious disabilities. I recommend the Feldenkrais Method to patients whose movement has been restricted by injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, fibromyalgia, chronic pain. I also believe that the Feldenkrais Method can help all of us feel more comfortable in our bodies.”

Margaret Mead, PhD, Anthropologist
“This is the most sophisticated and effective method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function. We’re condemning millions of people to a deteriorated old age that’s not necessary.”

Science Digest
“The Feldenkrais Method has had remarkable success in a range of chronic complaints ranging from the debilitating, such as cerebral palsy or paralysis, to the merely nagging, such as stiff necks, tension headaches or the blahs.”

David Ben Gurion, First Prime Minister of Israel
“This new approach to physical and mental well being holds in store vast possibilities. From my own experience I know the remarkable results achieved (with Feldenkrais).”

Bruce Holmes, Runner’s World
“The Feldenkrais work has had an enormous effect on the way I run and on the way I live my life. My knee problem vanished. I’ve increased my mileage considerably without a trace of difficulty. And I’m running faster.”

Bernard Lake, M.D., Australia
“The system developed by Moshe Feldenkrais…has as much potential for understanding the mind/body relationship as Einstein’s general theory of relativity had for physics.”

Yehudi Menuhin, Concert Violinist
“The Feldenkrais exercises are ingenious.”

Leon Fleischer, Concert Pianist, Musical Director, Tanglewood Music Festival
“Before we included Feldenkrais in the curriculum there was usually a small army of musicians who’d have overuse or practice-related injuries, whereas last summer(1989) there was only one.”

Peter Brook, Film & Stage Director
“Feldenkrais has studied the body in movement with a precision that I have found nowhere else.”

Albert Rosenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine
“Feldenkrais represents a revolution in human health.”

American Holistic Nurses’ Association Guide to Common Chronic Conditions : Self-Care Options to Complement Your Doctor’s Advice
“Try Feldenkrais for headaches or musculoskeletal problems. A study reported in the American Journal Of Pain Management found that patients with chronic headaches and/or musculoskeletal problems reported more mobility and decreased pain up to a year after treatment compared to comparison groups.”

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia : The Revolutionary Treatment That Can Reverse The Disease by R. Paul St. Amand
”A bodywork technique we have seen to benefit patients is known as The Feldenkrais Method. In a series of lessons, patients are taught how to integrate their body movements so that they function with less effort and pain.”

Bone, Breath, & Gesture: Practices of Embodiment by Don Hanlon Johnson
“A breathtaking work of genius, the Feldenkrais Methods—one (“Functional Integration”), hands-on with an individual teacher; the other (“Awareness Through Movement”), group movements directed by a teacher—teach a person how to liberate oneself from the narrow range of stereotypical movement patterns that we learn in our culture, and to rind a wider range of moving, and being. These works have had an enormous impact on the medical practice of physical therapy, since restricted movement patterns are associated with trauma, and freeing them produces significant relief of pain.”