Functional Integration: Private Feldenkrais Lessons

We all need guidance on occasion: whether it’s recovering from an injury or trauma, making a life transition, or starting the great American novel. Lavinia’s skillful yet compassionate directness will provide you with the mind/body tools needed to “move” yourself beyond your perceived limitations. Functional Integration means just that. You become more functional, you feel more integrated. You bypass your ordinary, thinking mind and work directly with your nervous system, learning new, useful habits in order to be able to do what you want. .This personalized somatic coaching makes every minute count.

Lavinia has helped thousands of people, from chronic pain to high performance to improve their quality of life.  Testimonials

In a Functional Integration lesson, the student  either sits or lies on a low table, fully clothed, while the teacher guides the student’s awareness through touch and gentle movement. The lesson can be silent, although some verbal direction takes place. The touch is gentle and non-invasive. The teacher maintains a safe and nurturing environment for maximum learning.

Lavinia also offers one on one learning online via Zoom. More details.

Kinēsa® Somatic Coaching

Do you know what your body is telling others? Are you who you say you are? Many people want one thing, but they non-verbally communicate something else. This is your opportunity to discover how to make your actions congruent with your words.

Kinēsa sessions are instrumental in helping people recognize habits that interfere with success. These habits can be the source of depression, anxiety or ineffectiveness. The sessions are somatically based: unlike psychotherapy or traditional coaching, the emphasis is on your physical affect. Posture, breathing patterns, facial expression, relaxation/tension and much more contribute to the impression you make on others. As you improve, through Lavinia’s careful guidance and exercises, you will see changes in your emotional and mental outlook as well.

The Kinēsa blends Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, emotional effector patterns, body language research and Lavinia’s years of research in everything from neuroscience to mythology to provide a rich and practical approach to understanding and improving how you communicate with others and yourself. in order to move forward in your life. 

You can make an in person appointment, or sign up for a Zoom session.

$150.00Book Your Appointment

If this is an online session, once you book your appointment, you will receive a link.