Feldenkrais-Methode
Learn, how it can be done easier.


To practise Feldenkrais means to do little and sense/perceive a lot. Many people are surprised how such small movements can feel so big and lead to such clear changes and improvements. Feldenkrais functions because it is functional. The learning in movement is playful and pleasurable, at the same time it follows a red thread which guarantees precision and efficiency.
Non-habitual movement sequences - often started with lying or sitting positions - facilitate to have new views on our own habits and open alternatives. Our self-image gets clearer, the skeleton carries itself better and the musculature becomes free of superfluous tension. With small and effortless movements we stimulate our ability to learn and expand our-self image. We explore how to organise our movements and how to improve them by minimal adjustments. We learn to distinguish meaningful action from exhausting struggle. The improvement of self awareness enables us to trace out our own habits and to shape our individual fields of action with more liberty.

“The matter is the following: Let be what is, to open up the path for what you imagine will happen next.”


Claudia Mader
Claudia Mader is a performer and Feldenkrais teacher. She is working as a movement coach and artistic assistant to artists including AKEMI TAKEYA (A), Milli Bitterli/ARTIFICIAL HORIZON (A), CARPA THEATER (A), TEATRO DE CIERTOS HABITANTES (Mex), and is creating own performance works. She has been teaching Feldenkrais for groups and individuals since 2000. She organises post graduate trainings for Feldenkrais Practitioners and open workshops and is part of the team of Feldenkrais training programs in Vienna. She has been teaching in institutions for actors' education as well as for the Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong education at the Shambhala Society in Vienna and teaches at ImPulsTanz since 2002.