FELDENKRAIS® Center of Nevada County

GUILD CERTIFIED FELDENKRAIS PRACTITIONER(CM)

Allison Rapp and Michael Purcell teach the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education in Grass Valley, CA, helping people of all ages learn to do more of what they want with greater ease. Contact us to enrich your life and expand your abilities.

Learning new ways to move can be an essential addition to the treatment of neurological and orthopedic conditions, chronic pain and stress-related problems. Easier movement means greater comfort performing everyday activities at work or home and greater skill in athletic and artistic pursuits. As you expand your awareness of how you think, sense, feel and move, the possibilities for personal improvement and human development are limitless.

We provide gentle, innovative lessons in the Feldenkrais Method that will allow you to observe how you move, notice unnecessary tension, and improve your overall coordination. As you continue to expand your ability to do the things you love without the difficulty you used to encounter, you will begin to find yourself using the ideas of the Feldenkrais Method in new areas of your life, bringing ease and grace to more and more situations. Seeing yourself from a new perspective gives you the means to begin changing long-standing habits of movement, thought and behavior, so that gradually, you find yourself "losing your inability to do" the things that enrich your life.

Both Allison and Michael were trained directly by Dr. Feldenkrais in his only North American Practitioner Training Programs  --Allison in San Francisco, 1975-78, and Michael in Amherst, MA, 1980-83. In addition, Allision has been a Trainer of new practitioners since 1991. We have decades of experience, working with 

• musicians, actors, dancers and athletes who wanted to improve their
• children and babies with cerebral palsy, brain injury and other difficulties
• seniors who wanted to revitalize their lives so they could enjoy retirement
• people faced with chronic conditions like fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis and Post-Polio Syndrome, and the after-effects of stroke and physical injury
• people of all ages who are prone to hurt themselves when doing what they love -- things like running, gardening, painting, weaving -- and those whose normal, everyday life is restricted by pain encountered in the course of daily activities, such as driving, bending, reaching, even rolling over in bed.

We work with individuals and groups in our private practice in Grass Valley, CA. If you are looking for a practitioner outside of Nevada County,  click here to find Feldenkrais Method teachers elsewhere in California or throughout the United States and Canada.

Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, Functional Integration®, are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America. Feldenkrais Method® photos by Rosalie O'Connor. Other photos used by permission.