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Parallel to my artistic work I am a Feldenkrais practitioner.
Feldenkrais is a movement method named after its inventor Moshe Feldenkrais who was a judoka, a mechanical and electrical engineer and an assistant to Frédéric Joliot-Curie, to name a few. After a serious accident on his already injured knee, Moshe Feldenkrais was proposed a surgical operation with an estimated 50% chance of success. He preferred to avoid this operation and studied everything related to health and healing: anatomy, physiology, neurophysiology, psychotherapy, rehabilitation exercises, yoga, hypnosis, acupuncture. Thus, by treating himself, Feldenkrais gradually manages to walk again. He can even resume judo. After months of meticulous observation and exploration of the body, based on very slow movements, he discovered and refined a process of self-learning, inspired by that which children use to move and then acquire walking. For him, this awareness of the physical and cerebral mechanisms related to our posture and movements is a key to improving the harmonious functioning of body and mind.
For me, having lived with a chronic disease for 20 years and with chronic pain for almost 10 years, the method gives me options. It doesn’t make the pain disappear by miracle, no, but it has changed my attitude towards what I experience. I can now find moments of ease and happiness while moving and manage way better to know how much I can do and when I need to stop. If you want to know more, here you find an interview with me with an assistant trainer.
upcoming classes:
* personal lesson: on request, please write to info[at]christinaclar.net
*Awareness through movement classes (group) 06.Februar.-22.Mai.2025: thursdays 18-19h at Turnsaal II of BG Lerchenfeld, Klagenfurt. I teach with Annina Cerha, Jutta Kojalek und Erhard Klammerth
(class dates: 06.02.2025, 20.02.2025, 27.02.2025, 06.03.2025, 13.03.2025, 20.03.2025, 27.03.2025, 03.04.2025, 10.04.2025, 24.04.2025, 08.05.2025, 15.05.2025, 22.05.2025)
organization & subsricption: Volkshochschule