Zoe Birch
My mission is to help you move toward your highest functioning self. I started my private practice in New York City back in the 90s. Later, I moved to the UK and taught Feldenkrais in London. Now I’m in Boulder raising service dogs for Canine Companions. I love to read and learn about how we adapt and grow.
Moshe Feldenkrais
The Method was developed by physicist and Judo teacher Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984). He received his PhD from the Sorbonne and worked in the Joliot-Curie laboratory in Paris. He also spent many decades studying Judo, training with its founder, Kanō Jigorō.
The Feldenkrais Method®
The Feldenkrais Method continues the education that was begun by every individual as a newborn infant by challenging the brain to relearn existing movement skills.
How did you lose those skills? Through long-term habits. As you develop habits, you often block yourself from doing things in the simplest and most efficient way.
Feldenkrais is based on principles of physics, neurology, and physiology, and the conditions under which the nervous system learns best.
Relearning to move with spontaneity, efficiency, and ease is the primary aim.
“Self-knowledge through awareness is the goal of reeducation. As we become aware of what we are doing in actual fact, and not what we say or think we are doing, the way to improvement is wide open to us.”