Patricia Holman
Mind, Moving & Learning
Providing Expertise & Mastery in the Neuroplasticity, Neuromovement, and Embodiment Modalities of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais & Anat Baniel
For Adults Ready for Transformational Change
Are you, or a loved one struggling with a physical limitation or a chronic health issue? Have traditional methods failed you? Do you want to experience more vitality, balance and flexibility as you age? Are you ready for an embodied, brain-based approach to health? Do you long for a connection to yourself that eliminates pain and restores your human capacity for creative, skillful action?
For Children Needing Developmental Support, and Their Parents
Does your child struggle with learning, or have a special need that is not responding to traditional therapies? Has your child missed milestones or is slow in acquiring them? Are you confident that your child’s potential has yet to be discovered, despite their diagnoses or prognosis? Do you want to find playful and creative solutions to connect (versus correct) your child inwardly and turn on their learning switch?
If you answered ‘YES’ to any of these questions, I can help.
Your goals for optimal function or your hopes for your child’s successful development are within reach! This brain-based neuroplasticity approach to lifelong health, pioneered by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, begins from a basic premise: that awareness of self-in-movement is a requirement for overcoming injury, chronic pain, and disordered development.
Awareness of self-in-movement is the foundation from which I help you cultivate new, effortless action. In movement sessions or lessons, I bring to light unconscious patterns of movement. From this aware-ing foundation, I utilize a variety of tools to help your nervous system acquire and ‘wire’ new ways of moving. The effect of this approach is to free you from habitual ways of feeling, sensing, and acting. I masterfully guide you to explore & discover an embodiment that creates a new organization, based on biological and developmental principles.
For Adults, outcomes of these lessons will result in biologic optimism & fluency, greater self agency, flexibility, release from pain, and improved resilience to challenges along the lifespan. Though pain reduction and improved function are likely outcomes, engaging in this approach will benefit you in other domains. Not only will you experience physical improvements, you can also expect emotional and cognitive improvements that are more remarkable than traditional rehabilitation approaches.
And for infants and children, development that is acquired by applying tools for self-sensing, ultimately leads to milestones that honors and supports unique yet successful learning trajectories. The outcome of which diminishes the limitations of your child’s special need, absorbing that limitation into greater and more organized overall function.
Mind, Moving & Learning is based in Ashland Oregon providing skillful & compassionate Feldenkrais & Anat Baniel Method for Children lessons in a variety of settings.
- Individual In-Person Sessions
- Intensives
- Public Workshops
- Professional Development for Therapists
- Virtual sessions