Makiko Method
Feldenkrais Method
What is Feldenkrais Method ?
Makiko completed the Feldenkrais® Guild of North America accredited Practitioner program and became a Feldenkrais Method practitioner in 2006. However, once I obtained nutritional healing expertise to restore neurological and postural health, my approach became different from the Feldenkrais Method approach.
However, I deeply appreciate my 17 years of practicing the Feldenkrais Method which aligned with my Japanese upbringing in a Samurai blood family and resonated with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’s understanding of human maturity by developing awareness through movement.
Feldenkrais Method is a somatic educational system developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli engineer and physicist. It is a dynamic and fluid method that works on rewiring the brain’s network. This method helps people develop a functional awareness of the Self by bringing awareness to habitual patterns and enhancing their changes. Human beings have transformational potential and ability to learn regardless of their age or condition.
In his book “Brain’s Way of Healing”, Norman Doidge,M.D. mentions Feldenkrais Method’s use of neurodifferentiation, one of the four stages that use the neuroplastic capacities of the brain to alter the connections between the neurons and to change their “wiring”. Below are key neurodifferentiation principles:
- Making the smallest possible sensory distinctions between movements – builds brain maps.
- Differentiation is easiest to make when the stimulus is smallest.
- Slowness of the movement is the key to awareness. Awareness is the key to learning.
