LESSONS WITH JENNIFER KAYLE
FELDENKRAIS METHOD

For more information about Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes or Functional Integration lessons, please contact Jennifer Kayle directly.

The Studio

​Insight from Kayle's ATM students:
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"...a passionate, knowledgeable instructor."
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"The work has had a profound effect..."
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"ATM has truly been a movement-based intervention' in the facets of my life."

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"...an invaluable resource..."

FELDENKRAIS METHOD
​​Awareness through movement + Functional Integration

Created by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the Feldenkrais Method has two distinct forms. The classroom form is called Awareness Through Movement. ATM class uses exploratory movements and guided attention to evoke new neuromuscular patterns. Lessons are carefully sequenced and scientifically designed to help each person to be “organized to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular effort, but through increased consciousness of how movement works.” (M.F.) Students are verbally guided through a sequence of gentle yet increasingly complex movements, often based on developmental patterns, ordinary “functions,” (reaching, looking behind yourself, rolling over, or getting up etc.), or fundamental joint, muscle, and postural relationships. Through a systematic approach, The Method provides a means to engage with your own sensory experience so that you may become more aware of what you do, how you do it, and alternative possibilities. It is a non-prescriptive process; rather than making corrections, or adjusting to an externally imposed form (imitation), an ATM asks you to discover the best bodily organization for you, and seeks to restore the possibility of choice in how you use your whole self in any given moment or action.

​The other Feldenkrais practice is a hands-on, one-on-one form called Functional Integration.  These individual and customized "lessons" are typically done on a low padded table that is made specifically for Feldenkrais work, but lessons can also take place standing up, sitting, or walking. A student remains fully clothed (unlike massage or some physical therapy) and pays careful yet relaxed attention to the process so that one's nervous system can learn new possibilities through this unique experience. A Feldenkrais practitioner uses gentle touch, and often provides different types of physical support, sometimes allowing a student to experience movements or postures without having to perform the action through his or her own efforts. The practitioner does not use invasive force, pressure, or manipulation, but rather uses contact to 'communicate' in a mutual exploration of the student's abilities, working together to expand the ease and function in movement. Students often report feeling lighter, more "spacious" and both awake and relaxed.
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Functional Integration can:
+  Reduce chronic aches or pains
+  Assist recovery from injuries
   +  Improve coordination
   +  Give relief, enjoyment, and ease

Increase ease and body's range of motion​

Improve your flexibility and coordination

Enhance emotional and mental capabilities

Discover innate capacity for efficient movement

"Improve the quality of movement, and you improve the quality of life itself." - Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais