A Collaboration by: Sarah Breedlove and Barbara Anderson
Franklin Method Educator Level 3 and Feldenkrais Method Practitioner since 1986
Franklin Method® & Feldenkrais Method®
If exercise sounds like a good idea ---- but not good enough to get you moving, Couch Potato --- maybe you´d like this approach. How about if all you did was lie back and relax, while some other kind soul moved your body parts ever so gently yet firmly into yoga-like positions, leaving you relaxed, stretched out, and energized after this no-work workout?
By Diane Valentine, GCFP - Born with three fused vertebrae in my neck, by my early twenties I was beginning to experience pain down my spine and into my low back and hips. It was very difficult to sleep at night or to keep still for long periods of time without a rush of pain. By my early thirties the pain was enough to send me to see an orthopedic surgeon. He informed me that nothing could be done and that most likely, because of the arthritis already apparent in my spine, I would be in a wheelchair by my fifties.