ABOUT - The Feldenkrais Method ®

The Feldenkrais Method® is a practice rooted in gentle movements. The Method can entail a practitioner being hands-on or giving instructions for movement. It is a portal to self-awareness and learning in order to release habits and reorganize internally. The Method illuminates three primary principles, which can help you move with less pain, less tension, greater ease and freedom

1. Go slow and do less – to expand self-awareness

Slowing down and observing yourself in a small range of movement opens up your ability to sense yourself and grow self-awareness. The more you are aware of how you are moving, the more you become able to reconfigure yourself for the better.

2. Cultivate care, compassion and trust – to become your own best resource

We humans are well-designed to reorganize and rewire ourselves for different outcomes. Straining, pushing and judging are not only tiring, they tend to disrupt the process of internal learning and change. Being kind to yourself, while trusting your innate process and wisdom, can open up your innate capacity to find new options for how you move.

3. Commit to curiosity, exploration and learning – to keep growing what you can do

Being continually curious and willing to explore is an untarnishable, lifelong tool. Gentle, playful movements rooted in self-awareness, care, self-compassion and trust can create a sweet, playful never-ending path to uncovering hidden sources of ease and new possibilities.

“I had an incredible experience during the Feldenkrais lessons with Veena which I highly recommend. It has made a very positive impact in my daily life by enabling me to be aware of the wholeness, interconnectedness of my body, and to be intentional in how I move through the world ( including the long hours I spend painting on my desk!). As a woman of color and as an immigrant with a South Asian heritage, I especially appreciate Veena's deep sensibility and sensitivity about socio-cultural contexts of my life, and how it has impacted my relationship with my own body. Veena has the rare gift of guiding one to tap into the healing capacity innate within all of us, despite the brashness of the aching breaking ever changing world around and within. May there be continued ripples of healing and awareness I have personally experienced thanks to Veena.”

Neha M.
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ABOUT THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD®

The Feldenkrais Method® is a portal to self-learning and internal systems/culture re-configuration.  Through slow and gentle movements (in structured Awareness Through Movement® lessons or individualized Functional Integration® sessions) we gather evidence, based on your first-hand experiences. We test out options to arrive at easier, clearer, more effective ways of moving.  We see and work with you in your wholeness – shaped as you are by distinct combination of thoughts, feelings, sensations and movements/actions.

The movements and sensory observations engage you at a systemic level, e.g., the nervous system, the skeletal system, the muscular system, the visual system etc. With each movement, these systems are taken into a conversation with one another – you unconsciously learn and reconfigure yourself.  

In Feldenkrais, rest is a space for intelligence gathering and integration. Quality matters more than quantity. We encourage self-learning through exploration, curiosity, non-judgement, ease and playfulness. Engaging with the Method is an opportunity to practice and expand self-awareness, to bear witness to yourself and to start reshaping your internal culture.

The Method is accessible to people of all shapes, sizes, ages, identities and movement abilities. I endeavor to adapt individual sessions, classes and workshop content to meet diverse student circumstances.  I regularly (and upon request) hold classes which are only for people from Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.