Functional Integration
Hands-on Feldenkrais Sessions
Through gentle yet precise, directive touch as well as verbal guidance, Sonja helps you to discover new ways of moving, behaving, sensing, feeling and living with greater ease and enjoyment.
People often come to Sonja seeking relief from aches and pains in their back, neck, hip, knee, shoulder, arm or other parts of themselves from acute or chronic injuries. Many come to learn how to move more efficiently, easily and gracefully. This includes athletes, musicians, performing artists as well as persons with neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy, stroke, muscular dystrophy or Parkinson’s. Yet others come to enhance their sense of themselves and how they can more fully participate in and influence how they act, feel and respond to life’s challenges. Sonja embraces and addresses all of these needs and interests.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s specific situation.
Like our handwriting, we all develop unique movement signatures—ways we habitually organize our actions. Sometimes these habits serve us well; other times, they are counterproductive. Sonja works with how each person habitually moves, behaves, perceives, experiences and shapes his or her life, teaching us how to expand our possibilities and grow our ability to create a range of responses to our life predicaments.
Based on the Feldenkrais Method and deeply informed by her ten years of ongoing studies in Formative Psychology™, Sonja encourages you to develop, grow and participate in your healing and in your life more fully–physically, emotionally, mentally.
Sonja has worked with people from five months to 103 years old! People come to her with a wide variety of unique circumstances and interests:
- Athletes, martial artists, dancers, and musicians interested in increasing their performance abilities
- Persons with cerebral palsy or other neurological conditions
- Individuals interested in personal growth
- Car accident victims (suffering from whiplash or other musculoskeletal trauma)
- Pre- and post-operative recovery (open heart surgery, reconstructive knee surgery)
- Computer users with repetitive stress injuries, back and neck strains
The office is located on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms.
What to Expect in an Individual Session
Adults and seniors often enjoy lying quietly in comfortable loose clothing on a low table while Sonja works with gentle, precise, noninvasive touch.
As she listens with her hands and her whole self, she engages you in a nonverbal, kinesthetic conversation in which she ask questions through her contact, senses your response, makes suggestions and waits for your feedback to guide your interactions. Some sessions are more active and may include hands-on and verbally guided movements in positions such as sitting, kneeling or standing. Sessions often also include some verbally guided movements which you can practice on your own after and between sessions.
Functional Integration, Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais Method are registered trademarks of the Feldenkrais Guild of N.A. Formative Psychology™ is a trademark of Stanley Keleman
