The Feldenkrais Method is an educational system intended to give individuals a greater functional awareness of the self.
The method uses body movement as the primary vehicle for learning in the human organism. It is perhaps due to this focus on body movement that the Feldenkrais Method is often classified as a complementary and alternative medicine.
People interested in the Feldenkrais Method are predominantly individuals who either want to improve their movement repertoire (as dancers, musicians, artists), individuals who want to improve their pain or limitations in movement, or individuals who want to use the method as a way to improve their well-being and personal development.
Advocates claim the Feldenkrais Method is a very successful approach in cases of movement related pain (e.g. pain in backs, knees, hips, shoulders), and learning better functioning in cases of stroke or cerebral palsy.
A central tenet of the method is that improving someone's ability to move can improve their overall well-being; and practitioners of the Method generally refrain from referring to conceptions of illness, diagnosis or therapy.
