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All PRIVATE SESSIONS are hybrid, informed 40 years of study in two approaches
Feldenkrais Functional Integration® Structural Integration
Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, Board Certified Structural Integrator, Licensed Massage Therapist
FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION®
In a Functional Integration® lesson, my touch seeks to reflect how you currently organize your body and actions. Through gentle touch and movement, I suggest the possibility of different movement patterns which are more comfortable, efficient, and useful. FI lessons are flexible in their approach,
determined by your needs.
Each Functional Integration lesson relates to a desire, intention, or need that you have. The learning process is carried out using light touch, conversation and inquiry. My aim is to create a safe learning environment that honors your innate intelligence and abilities. Each lesson is custom-tailored to your
unique circumstances, and facilitates you reorganizing your actions in new and more effective ways .
"If a screw needs turning, and you have no screwdriver with which to do it, you could use a butter knife instead.
It’s expedient and will do the job.
But if you have 1,000 screws to turn, and you use a knife, eventually you’ll have neither a knife nor a screwdriver."
M Feldenkrais
determined by your needs.
Each Functional Integration lesson relates to a desire, intention, or need that you have. The learning process is carried out using light touch, conversation and inquiry. My aim is to create a safe learning environment that honors your innate intelligence and abilities. Each lesson is custom-tailored to your
unique circumstances, and facilitates you reorganizing your actions in new and more effective ways .
"If a screw needs turning, and you have no screwdriver with which to do it, you could use a butter knife instead.
It’s expedient and will do the job.
But if you have 1,000 screws to turn, and you use a knife, eventually you’ll have neither a knife nor a screwdriver."
M Feldenkrais
"The private sessions I have experienced with Karen over the past decade have opened my horizons on sensing and being able to regulate myself towards equilibrium. The clarity of feedback from her hands, along with validation through talk have provided a clear message about accepting what is, opening to new options, and feeling my way further ahead into improvement. This leads to a spacious sense of satisfaction and endless possibility." -MF
STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION
Structural Integration, Ida Rolf PhD's revolutionary system of bodywork (Rolfing,) is designed to align the structures of the body within earth's gravitational field. The work uses skillful touch to rearrange, stretch, and change the direction of the myo-fascial layers of the body. Fascia is the organ of shape. It is a continuous, three dimensional collagen matrix which surrounds every bone, muscle, muscle fiber, organ, vessel and nerve. Fascia is the environment which informs our tissues, similar to the paint which surrounds and qualifies every fiber of a paintbrush. It is its elasticity, or lack of such, that maintains the shape of our bodies, and our carriage. When strained by trauma, injury or habit this fascia toughens and holds the body in sub-optimal postures, ones that are taxing to the vitality and efficiency of the whole system. By changing how the soft tissues maintain the joints, your body will arrive at a more efficient, aligned and stress free integration.
“The gravitational field of the earth is easily the most potent physical influence in any human life.
When human energy field and gravity are at war, needless to say gravity wins every time.
It may be a man’s friend and reinforce his activity; it may be his bitter enemy and drag him to physical destruction.
His structure holds the answer.”
Ida Rolf
“The gravitational field of the earth is easily the most potent physical influence in any human life.
When human energy field and gravity are at war, needless to say gravity wins every time.
It may be a man’s friend and reinforce his activity; it may be his bitter enemy and drag him to physical destruction.
His structure holds the answer.”
Ida Rolf
"Having regular bodywork with Karen has been a collaborative process of deepening my understanding of patterns and learning to treat them with kindness. Karen's intuition, anatomical expertise and collaborative approach have allowed me to develop a growing "felt sense" of my patterns and sources of tension. From this place of deeper learning, my awareness and discoveries continue beyond the immediate relief from our sessions, and I am starting to experience small but very important shifts."-AM
