Feldenkrais Method®
Do You Seek a Better Life?
- Move and think like you’re 10 years younger
- Improve your quality of life to live with ease and comfort
- Regain confident movement to reduce falls
- Improve posture and self-image
The Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education enhances your ability to learn healthy patterns of moving, feeling, and thinking. It uses gentle compression, rolling and stretching in unique sequences to find and release deep-seated physical and emotional patterns causing tension and pain. It improves communication and control of muscles, joints, balance, hearing and vision.
You are fully clothed during a Feldenkrais session to support your comfort and sense of safety. It is recommended that you wear comfortable unrestricted clothing.
Most of us have been injured or had a debilitating illness at least once in our life. And with each trauma, the body automatically tightens and moves more cautiously to avoid more pain. What you may not know is that those new ways of moving stay ‘turned on’ long after the injury. Over time, these injury-acquired habits actually increase your likelihood of more pain and injury.
By improving the way your individual parts work together you will have fewer injuries and recover faster and more fully. The therapist ‘draws the dots’ involved in healthy movement patterns and your brain automatically ‘connects the dots’ to correct your faulty painful movements. The almost miraculous result is smoother, more comfortable movement.
The Feldenkrais Method® is named after its founder, Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais (1904–1984), an internationally recognized physicist, engineer and master of Judo. His method of retraining the brain and body made him one of the early pioneers in the field of neuroscience. And popular neuroscientist Dr. Norman Doidge, MD, describes Dr. Feldenkrais as the ‘Father of Neuroscience’ in his best selling book, The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity.
The Feldenkrais Method® is offered in two formats:
With 1-to-1 sessions in the clinic you are on a low table or chair while the therapist gently moves your body in different ways. You may be asked to make small, specific movements to help your brain find and change the areas of unconscious muscle tension that make your movements inefficient and painful.
With live online Awareness Through Movement® group lessons, you are verbally guided through a sequence of gentle brain-awakening movements. Classes take place on your floor, bed, and chair, or while standing. Click Book Now to see what group classes are currently available.
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Our Vision
We all know that the best body moves. Your lifetime of injuries, surgeries, and overuse may limit comfortable movement and diminish your quality of life. To solve this, we support the WHOLE YOU both physically and emotionally to support deep healing.
Our Mission
You want to live a healthy happy life and our mission is to help you do it! We support you in learning new skills and regaining lost ones, and releasing deep-seated emotional and physical trauma patterns.
References: Click here to read what our clients are saying!
We're Green!
Linens are fragrance and fabric softener-free. Our rooms use High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) air purifier to remove dust, pollen and viruses.
Pain Relief & Movement Specialist
Terri Rossi, MS, LMT, NCMMT, BCTMB, GCFP is owner of Best Body Moves, LLC. She brings over 30 years of experience in scientific research, adult education and body work. Her care and compassion help you recover from complex physical and emotional pain conditions.
Training and Certifications
- WA State Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), License #MA20265 with Intraoral Certification
- Board Certified Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (BCTMB) ─ highest USA certification
- Nationally Certified Medical Massage Therapist (NCMMT)
- Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner (GCFP) ─ 4-year program
- Authorized Trainer for Awareness Through Movement® lessons
- Authorized Trainer for the Sounder Sleep System™
- Feldenkrais® Continuing Education Instructor at Tacoma Comm. College - 2019 & 2020
- CranioSacral Therapist - Dr. John Upledger style
- Trager® Approach - Level 3 (nearing certification)
- Acutonics® Level 2 Practitioner
- Usui Reiki Master Practitioner, 9th Generation and teacher- (2005)
- Author and Trainer: Feldenkrais®, Healing Sound, Reiki and Holistic Canine classes for the public and health care professionals.
- Master's degree in Science
Membership/Events
- Member of Washington State Massage Therapy Association (WSMTA)
- Member of Feldenkrais Guild® of North America (FGNA) - 2006 - current
- Committee Board Member - Licensing Exam of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic and Massage Bodywork (NCBTMB)
- Committee Board Member - Board Certification Exam of the NCBTMB
- Presenter: 'Using Sound Waves to Relax and Heal' - 2019 Tech Trek by American Assoc. of University Women (AAUW); 'Feldenkrais Method: Improve How You Move' - 2018 at Pierce County Cancer Survivorship Conference.
Our Vision
We all know that the best body moves. Your lifetime of injuries, surgeries, and overuse may limit comfortable movement and diminish your quality of life. To solve this, we support the WHOLE YOU both physically and emotionally to support deep healing.
Our Mission
You want to live a healthy happy life and our mission is to help you do it! We support you in learning new skills and regaining lost ones, and releasing deep-seated emotional and physical trauma patterns.
References: Click here to read what our clients are saying!
We're Green!
Linens are fragrance and fabric softener-free. Our rooms use High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) air purifier to remove dust, pollen and viruses.
Pain Relief & Movement Specialist
Terri Rossi, MS, LMT, NCMMT, BCTMB, GCFP is owner of Best Body Moves, LLC. She brings over 30 years of experience in scientific research, adult education and body work. Her care and compassion help you recover from complex physical and emotional pain conditions.
Training and Certifications
- WA State Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), License #MA20265 with Intraoral Certification
- Board Certified Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (BCTMB) ─ highest USA certification
- Nationally Certified Medical Massage Therapist (NCMMT)
- Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner (GCFP) ─ 4-year program
- Authorized Trainer for Awareness Through Movement® lessons
- Authorized Trainer for the Sounder Sleep System™
- Feldenkrais® Continuing Education Instructor at Tacoma Comm. College - 2019 & 2020
- CranioSacral Therapist - Dr. John Upledger style
- Trager® Approach - Level 2 (student)
- Acutonics® Level 2 Practitioner
- Usui Reiki Master Practitioner, 9th Generation and teacher- (2005)
- Author and Trainer: Feldenkrais®, Healing Sound, Reiki and Holistic Canine classes for the public and health care professionals.
- Master's degree in Science
Membership/Events
- Member of Washington State Massage Therapy Association (WSMTA)
- Member of Feldenkrais Guild® of North America (FGNA) - 2006 - current
- Committee Board Member - Licensing Exam of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic and Massage Bodywork (NCBTMB)
- Committee Board Member - Board Certification Exam of the NCBTMB
- Presenter: 'Using Sound Waves to Relax and Heal' - 2019 Tech Trek by American Assoc. of University Women (AAUW); 'Feldenkrais Method: Improve How You Move' - 2018 at Pierce County Cancer Survivorship Conference.
Our Vision
We all know that the best body moves. Your lifetime of injuries, surgeries, and overuse may limit comfortable movement and diminish your quality of life. To solve this, we support the WHOLE YOU both physically and emotionally to support deep healing.
Our Mission
You want to live a healthy happy life and our mission is to help you do it! We support you in learning new skills and regaining lost ones, and releasing deep-seated emotional and physical trauma patterns.
References: Click here to read what our clients are saying!
We're Green!
Linens are fragrance and fabric softener-free. Our rooms use High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) air purifier to remove dust, pollen and viruses.
Pain Relief & Movement Specialist
Terri Rossi, MS, LMT, NCMMT, BCTMB, GCFP is owner of Best Body Moves, LLC. She brings over 30 years of experience in scientific research, adult education and body work. Her care and compassion help you recover from complex physical and emotional pain conditions.
Training and Certifications
- WA State Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), License #MA20265 with Intraoral Certification
- Board Certified Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (BCTMB) ─ highest USA certification
- Nationally Certified Medical Massage Therapist (NCMMT)
- Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner (GCFP) ─ 4-year program
- Authorized Trainer for Awareness Through Movement® lessons
- Authorized Trainer for the Sounder Sleep System™
- Feldenkrais® Continuing Education Instructor at Tacoma Comm. College - 2019 & 2020
- CranioSacral Therapist - Dr. John Upledger style
- Trager® Approach - Level 2 (student)
- Acutonics® Level 2 Practitioner
- Usui Reiki Master Practitioner, 9th Generation and teacher- (2005)
- Author and Trainer: Feldenkrais®, Healing Sound, Reiki and Holistic Canine classes for the public and health care professionals.
- Master's degree in Science
Membership/Events
- Member of Washington State Massage Therapy Association (WSMTA)
- Member of Feldenkrais Guild® of North America (FGNA) - 2006 - current
- Committee Board Member - Licensing Exam of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic and Massage Bodywork (NCBTMB)
- Committee Board Member - Board Certification Exam of the NCBTMB
- Presenter: 'Using Sound Waves to Relax and Heal' - 2019 Tech Trek by American Assoc. of University Women (AAUW); 'Feldenkrais Method: Improve How You Move' - 2018 at Pierce County Cancer Survivorship Conference.
"I highly recommend Best Body Moves as a superior injury and pain management clinic. … I find that the quality, with Terri Rossi is far more personalized than any other care that I have previously received with noticeable results. She has taught me techniques for correcting my body alignment with superior results…" Read more
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