Feldenkrais for Melting Freeze
Seasonal classes with Alison Babil,
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® (ATM®) 2024 Classes with Alison Babil
Freeze and tension can show up on any level in the body and heart. The Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education takes students through gentle, sophisticated movement sequences with awareness to meet and transform habitual patterns of tension and freeze.
The aim is more freedom and potency in one’s body and life. Feldenkrais is named after its founder, Moshe Feldenkrais. Dr. Feldenkrais was a high level Judo master and physicist. After a debilitating knee injury, he taught himself how to walk again using what became known as the Feldenkrais Method®.
Join us for a movement journey! Each series will focus on a different topic and include six Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons. Lessons will be suitable for beginners or experienced students in the Feldenkrais Method.
*Each series will address melting freeze and the whole body, whole person. Series topics will interconnect.
*Classes are recorded. Participants will receive recordings.
What people are saying:
🌟Feldenkrais works from the inside out. I’ve found it to be extremely beneficial mentally, physically, and emotionally.
– B.G., Feldenkrais Participant
🌟My frozen shoulder has gotten better through the series.
– Feldenkrais for Melting Freeze Participant
Series Themes, Dates & Time:
All classes on Wednesdays.
Feldenkrais for Posture
April 3rd – May 8th , 2024, 12:30-1:30 Eastern, on Zoom, +1:30-45 optional sharing.
Posture impacts movement, comfort, emotions, and one’s experience of life. Rather than imposing “correct” posture, this series will gently guide you through movements that stimulate new neural pathways for healthy posture, freedom of movement and a greater sense of well-being.
Feldenkrais for Walking
September 11th – October 16th , 2024, 12:30-1:30 Eastern, on Zoom, +1:30-45 optional sharing.
Walking is an essential movement that involves a high degree of coordination. This series will focus on bringing comfort and efficiency to walking and running for improved balance, grounding, posture, and overall well-being.
Feldenkrais for Early Development
November 6th -December 12th , 2024, 12:30-1:30 Eastern, on Zoom, +1:30-45 optional sharing.
As infants, time on the stomach allows for the development of essential sensory-motor strategies. These movement strategies lead to the orientation of the head and neck, directionality, eye coordination, crawling, walking and more. This series will explore movements lying on the belly connected with early development. Feldenkrais belly-lying lessons can profoundly shift tension patterns that form later in life, including low back pain and much more.
Training Cost: $125 per series. Sliding scale discount for those with financial need.
A refund will be available until 2 weeks prior to the training dates. After that, no refund will be available.
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Free Feldenkrais Introduction for the 2025 Classes
January 22nd , 2025, 12:30- 1:30 pm Eastern, Zoom Link will be here, +1:30-45 optional sharing.
Join us for a free Introductory Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) class! Class will include a brief lecture followed by a Feldenkrais movement lesson. This class is an introduction to the 2025 Feldenkrais series with Maintain Alignment.
Training Cost: $125 per series. $465 for all four series. Sliding scale discount for those with financial need.
Feldenkrais for Breathing
February TBA– March , 2025, 12:30-1:30 Eastern, on Zoom, +1:30-45 optional sharing.
Breathing affects our nervous system, cell health, posture, movement, and more. This series will gently guide you through breathing/movement lessons for efficient, comfortable breathing to support nervous system regulation, posture, and healing.
2024 Course Dates and Registration:
Meet Your Instructor: Alison Babil
Alison Babil, GCFP, LMT, is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®,
a certified Sounder Sleep System® instructor and certified in Insight Acupressure, also an Alchemical Alignment graduate. She is the owner of True North Healing, in Maryland. Alison specializes in pain, somatic education, and sleep. She loves supporting people to find more ease and joy by accessing the body's wisdom. For more information on classes and individual sessions, please contact Alison at alison@truenorthhealing.com.
More Student Feedback
🌟Since the Feldenkrais class with Alison I have more energy, strength, presence, and mobility.
This is such powerful work. THANK YOU Alison!🌟My body learned new ways to exist and move in space and time with more ease, flow, wholeness.
🌟I had right hip and shoulder pain that was not responding to all sorts of treatments. Both of those pains have reduced significantly.
🌟It was my first exposure and experience to the Feldenkrais method. I was amazed that I was able to bring mindfulness to my daily activities after a few weeks of classes.
🌟Alison Babil + Feldenkrais = kind guidance and containment for reaching quiet depths. I am continually surprised by the effectiveness of this sweet path to more fluidity and freedom.
🌟It’s been so lovely to “re-member” how easily my body can shift towards greater health.
🌟neck fluidity connecting down through thoracic spine. total surprise. more felt-sense connection with rib movements in relationship to breath.
🌟Alison, thank you. You were consistent, clear and a caring presence for us.
🌟Alison‘s Feldenkrais Series is just what I’ve been looking for for years. The class is offered at a convenient time and Alison is clear, kind, somatically informed, and very well attuned. Brava!
— Feldenkrais for Melting Freeze Participants