Dancing in Functional Integration – Moving with Awareness (The Feldenkrais Method)

Sandy came to see me for lower back pain, which was tied to her earlier complaint of shoulder pain.
Functionally, the pelvis and the shoulder are intimately connected.

She is lying down on my Feldenkrais table face up.
I take her left arm to lift it overhead.
I am sitting above her head.
Her arm lifts easily.
The trajectory is smooth.
There is no pain.

I do the same with the right arm.
I meet resistance about half way up towards her arm lying overhead.
I do various movement combinations involving differentiating her head, neck and shoulder blade; and differentiating her shoulder and arm from her leg and pelvis.

Pretty soon I feel like I’m “dancing” with her.
There is no sense of me and her.
We are one Nervous System moving together.

We are in Entrainment.
Where my system is influencing or adjusting to the frequency of her Nervous system, leading to a more coordinated state for her.
Pretty soon her right arm can lengthen above her head more easily.

We are dancing.