Richard Adelman
Feldenkrais Embodiment Therapy
Your unconscious movement habits may be causing or perpetuating needless pain and stress.
I believe that much human suffering can be attributed to being out of contact with or taking an unfriendly attitude toward one’s body. In my practice I help you both to befriend your body and to learn to be more inside your body. By working with yourself in a gentle, empathetic, and respectful way you come to recognize that learning and re-learning remain possible at any age. As Margaret Mead pointed out, “The Feldenkrais Method is the most sophisticated and effective method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function.”
Biography
Before he moved to Mexico five years ago, Richard’s personal and
professional development as a body therapist took place in the San
Francisco Bay Area, a world center for body therapies. He is a Guild
Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who began his training with Dr.
Moshe Feldenkrais in 1973. He has an MA in Psychology from
California State University San Francisco and almost forty years’
experience with the Formative Psychology of Stanley Keleman, a
somatic-emotional approach. Richard is certified in a gentle
rehabilitative approach to Pilates developed at St. Francis Memorial
Hospital in San Francisco and has studied a variety of Osteopathic
techniques.
Description of sessions.
While grounded in a scientific understanding of body mechanics and
function, this work goes beyond the objective body to touch the
existential body, the living, breathing, struggling
person-in-the-world.) As you lie fully-clothed on a low massage table
Richard uses subtle touch to relieve pain and stress, helping you to
feel more “at home” in your body. In addition, lying on a padded floor
surface you learn a variety of very slow and gentle pleasurable
movement sequences which allow you to give yourself similar benefits.
You receive an audio recording of these personalized movements for home
use. Appointments are sixty minutes in length.
While deepening body awareness and consciousness, this
educational-therapeutic process renews and enhances your flexibility,
gracefulness, balance, and self-confidence. Neuromuscular and joint
pain due to arthritis, nerve compression (sciatica, carpal tunnel),
tendonitis, accidents, and injuries is diminished or eliminated.
San Miguel Cell 044.415.114.3069
Email: richardadelman@gmail.com
Richard’s sessions were informative, gentle, and powerful and affected me on many levels. His work enables me now to approach the physical side of longstanding injuries in a very different and much more positive way. And how supportive this method is in accepting aging! As a therapist and minister I shall certainly recommend this work to all. Dagmar Helman, San Miguel, Gto., Mexico
Of the many forms of bodywork I’ve tried over the last several years, Richard’s has had the most immediate, painless, and lasting effect on my entire posture. Margo Leslie, Berkeley, California, USA:
As a professional musician for 50 years and a body therapist since 1989, I find that the type of work Richard offers is ideal for musicians as well as all other types of people. His sensitive capacity to recognize and understand the effects of stressful postural habits and somatic/emotional states on the body enables him to guide the patient to a surprisingly rapid improvement. Barbara Chasson, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Richard’s multitude of skills can help anyone feel better in their body. He has given me practical guidance on walking, meditating and sitting at the computer that I use daily. His techniques for relaxation leave me ready for the next chapter of my life. He can help you heal what ails you as well as reset and renew the capacity for the body to feel pleasure. Patricia Feldman de Gonzales, San Miguel, Gto., Mexico
He reaches a body’s essence, its deepest secrets, through minimal movement of the highest consciousness and joy. Richard is a healer without potions. Javier Cabrera, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
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