Feldenkrais Institute of Ann Arbor Training Program
Here's a link for giving you a sense for what Feldenkrais is: https://feldenkraisproject.com/learning-guides/feldenkrais-nuts-and-bolts/
FELDENKRAIS TRAINING PROGRAM
You may want to join a training program for your own personal health benefits or for integrating Feldenkrais into your career. I am in a training program for my own personal health benefits and because I am interested in teaching people to become practitioners.
With the 4-year training program I'm doing, they are starting up with a new batch of students enrolling from now up through December 2024, and it is a training program that has both online parts and in-person parts. The program is designed to be very doable to fit into your life while you're still working your old job. In case you're interested or can share this with others who might be, here's a link to an announcement about the Feldenkrais training program: https://feldenkraisproject.com/2024/01/psa-new-feldenkrais-teacher-training-starts-soon/
I was inspired to join the program because of the deep impact that Feldenkrais has had on my life and because of how passionate we all are about it. The Feldenkrais Method is often the treatment that brings people relief when other approaches have been ineffective. It also shines with common issues like back, neck, hand, knee, shoulder, hip pain, etc., such that some who would otherwise need surgery can avoid it. Remarkably, profound improvement in function can even be made with patients who have had a stroke years earlier (as well as with recent strokes) and patients with Parkinson's.
Joining a Feldenkrais training was one of the most significant and personally beneficial choices I’ve ever made, and not just because I’ve made a career teaching this method that I love. My Feldenkrais training was like an instruction manual for being human, and for life-long learning and maturing.
-Nick Strauss-Klein, The Feldenkrais Project
A typical practitioner charges around $125 for a 70-90 minute session. If you become capable of producing results for more complex cases, you could earn much more. The practitioner I'm seeing now charges $180 for a 70-90 minute session, and she is so in demand that I had to wait 3 years on her waiting list before I was able to get in to see her. She's who people go to after nothing else has worked for them, and she's the one who is finally able to help them.
She started out as an Occupational Therapist, learned about Feldenkrais which helped her with serious back injuries from a car accident that other things weren't able to help her. She started incorporating it into what she was doing as an Occupational Therapist, but at this point she no longer uses her Occupational Therapy techniques because she gets such better results with Feldenkrais. She's also so glad to no longer have to do paperwork as she has her own private practice. She's even been able to treat old strokes (as well as recent ones, even being able to return a surgeon to being able to go back to performing surgery), Parkinson's, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, etc. Here's a link for giving you a sense for what Feldenkrais is: https://feldenkraisproject.com/learning-guides/feldenkrais-nuts-and-bolts/
With the 4-year training program I'm doing, they are starting up with a new batch of students starting online on March 2nd, and it is a training program that has both online parts and in-person parts. The program is designed to be very doable to fit into your life while you're still working your old job.
In case you're interested or can share this with others who might be, here's a link to an announcement about the Feldenkrais training program: https://feldenkraisproject.com/2024/01/psa-new-feldenkrais-teacher-training-starts-soon/
I didn't have to try as many medications as you have, but I do have bipolar, OCD, and anxiety (and am on prozac and latuda and lithium) I have been seeing a Feldenkrais practitioner for back and neck issues for 5 years now, and I've found that it has also had a profound effect on my mental health. I feel almost impervious to depression now. I feel like I almost don't have to worry about the possibility of getting depressed.
A typical practitioner charges around $125 for a 70-90 minute session. If you become capable of producing results for more complex cases, you could earn much more. The practitioner I'm seeing now charges $180 for a 70-90 minute session, and she is so in demand that I had to wait 3 years on her waiting list before I was able to get in to see her. She's who people go to after nothing else has worked for them, and she's the one who is finally able to help them.
She started out as an Occupational Therapist, learned about Feldenkrais which helped her with serious back injuries from a car accident that other things weren't able to help her. She started incorporating it into what she was doing as an Occupational Therapist, but at this point she no longer uses her Occupational Therapy techniques because she gets such better results with Feldenkrais. She's also so glad to no longer have to do paperwork as she has her own private practice. She's even been able to treat old strokes (as well as recent ones, even being able to return a surgeon to being able to go back to performing surgery), Parkinson's, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, etc.
HELP WITH PAIN IS WHAT MANY PEOPLE USE FELDENKRAIS FOR, BUT IT IS ALSO EFFECTIVE WITH MENTAL HEALTH AND AGING
I have been seeing a Feldenkrais practitioner for back and neck issues for 5 years now, and I've found that it has also had a profound effect on my mental health. I feel almost impervious to depression now. I feel like I almost don't have to worry about the possibility of getting depressed.
From: https://feldenkrais.com/healthy-aging/
As a practicing neuroscientist certified in geriatrics and psychiatry, I am well acquainted with the latest knowledge concerning the continual regeneration of neurons in the brain and our on-going ability to alter our thoughts and behavior throughout life despite being senior citizens.
The Feldenkrais method focuses not only on the economy and grace and efficiency of movement (do more with less and do it better), but it has also proven to reduce the arthritic aches and pains. My patients and I report reducing our pain medications by half, an increase in muscle tone and improved mood. I am ever surprised by the great variation in the range of motion our marvelous body can attain and pleased with the childhood flexibility and grace that can be regained even with advancing age.
-Normund Wong, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, The Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences
