Sports

Whether they're swinging a racket, riding a bike, counting tiles or alley the oop, the best athletes always unite multiple marvelous traits.

Presence: Their awareness aims in exactly one direction.

Coordination: They make the difficult look easy and do unusual things more often.

Control: They know exactly what they're capable of, what they want to do next and how to achieve it.

Autonomy: They're capable of improvising.

Perception: They see and feel things about and during the game that others don't.

Balance: There's no opposing forces within their bodies.

Appearance: Their movements are elegant.

To accomplish all of these skills you need an ideal connection between impulse and action. The best of the best translate this impulse without loss and resistance into movement. They have more uninterrupted moments of mental presence. They don't doubt what they're doing while they're doing it. The greater objective of a result may continue to exist somewhere in the backs of their heads, but the most important thing is the next movement. In Feldenkrais we educate the basis for all of these interrelations: A nervous system that carries information without any disturbance through the body and receives and processes incoming signals without any loss. The athlete learns to control the body in its anatomical logic, which allows for an ideal distribution of power and effort in own actions and spontaneity to react to any situation. The easy and smart movements produce a kind of reset in the brain and nervous system, which fosters new, nonhabitual, refreshing perspectives; a place where you can ’’programme“ the ideal connection of impulse and action that creates a flow state. By calibrating the nervous system and its many outreaching tentacles, you also develop self-confidence and empathy, which contribute to a healthy team spirit and could be valuable in challenging situations.