Feldenkrais Classes Online
Every course on this page is a self-paced series of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Each one was recorded from a live class taught on Zoom, so you can take it whenever suits you, at whatever pace you want, from wherever you are.
If you would rather join in real time, Sarah also teaches live online Feldenkrais classes every week. Everything on this page is recorded and self-paced.
“I appreciate the way the lessons are stacked like building blocks to increase my awareness and function.”
What is an Awareness Through Movement lesson?
An Awareness Through Movement lesson is a verbally guided movement exploration. There is nothing to copy and no shape to arrive at. Sarah talks you through a sequence of small, gentle movements while you give your attention to how you are doing them.
Most lessons are done lying on your back, side, or belly, sitting in a chair or on the floor. The movements are slow, and small enough that they should never strain you. The aim is not to work harder, it is to notice your habits clearly enough that your nervous system can find an easier option on its own.
This is why they are called lessons rather than Feldenkrais exercises. An exercise asks you to repeat something until it gets stronger. A lesson asks you to sense what you are already doing, and to discover that there is more than one way to do it.
Most people feel a difference after a single lesson. Practicing regularly is what carries those shifts into how you move the rest of the time.
No previous experience is needed for any course on this page.
Upcoming Zoom Series:
Organizing the Head and Neck
An 8 week Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement Series
September 20th - November 11th, 2026
Sundays 4pm CST/Wednesdays 6:30pm CST
Live classes will be taught on zoom*
Our Fall Feldenkrais course Organizing the Head and Neck will explore a less common approach to chronic neck and shoulder pain—one that focuses on how your head and neck are supported from below, by your spine, pelvis, and feet, rather than forcing "good posture".
In this gentle series, we will work with how your head can feel effortlessly suspended from above while building natural, solid support beneath you. Instead of fighting your body or trying too hard to hold yourself up, you’ll learn small, comfortable movements designed to melt away chronic tightness, helping you feel lighter, better supported, and more comfortable in your daily life.
ALL FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSES:
Making it Relevant - Part 1
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This series is an invitation to move beyond the abstract and apply our awareness directly to the mechanics of daily living, ensuring that your coordination, balance, and strength become dependable resources in your moment-to-moment experience. Any human behavior can be a subject of investigation and improvement.
Making It Relevant - Part 2
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
Any human behavior can be a subject of investigation and improvement. In this series, I will draw on my experience to provide lessons specifically tailored to the functional challenges you face, such as getting out of bed, walking on varied terrain, carrying groceries, or yard work. Open to student requests.
Making It Relevant - Part 3
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
Climbing stairs requires a brilliant symphony of balance, strength, and spatial awareness.
Whether stairs are currently a struggle for you or you simply want to make them feel effortless, this series will completely shift how you transition between levels.
The Focused Body
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This series will directly use subtle movements to strengthen your capacity for sustained concentration. You'll learn to deliberately shift your focus from narrow sensory detail to wide spatial awareness. By using your body as a reliable anchor, you will cultivate the quieter attention that empowers you to choose intention over impulse in daily life.
Pelvic Floor and Deep Core Rapport
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
A comprehensive whole body approach to pelvic floor and abdominal health. Learn to establish a harmonious relationship for your hips, buttocks, pelvic floor, and deep core muscles, in a novel and imaginative way. This is a WHOLE BODY approach to pelvis and abdominal health.
Grace Under Pressure, Power Without Strain
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
We often shrink our movements to stay 'safe,' but true safety comes from knowing how to use your power. This series is about reclaiming the big, joyful movements of life—getting up from the floor, reaching without strain, and moving through the world with a sense of unstoppable coordination.
From Rest to Action
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
The Fall Feldenkrais series will focus on settling our nervous system and finding resiliency in the body. By fostering increased body awareness and promoting ease of movement, the Feldenkrais Method supports the nervous system in achieving a more efficient, relaxed functioning, allowing you to be ready to spring into action when necessary.
Self Touch to Understand
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This series begins with the understanding that touch is important for human development and wellbeing. The intention of this series is to use the quality of touch, and your hands, to enhance your perception of some of the details that take place when you move. This will be practical information for you, your organism, and any movement practice you have.
Lengths & Volumes
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
In this series we will listen to ourselves globally, to gain a more clear understanding of how to sense functional linkages within ourselves. We start with the skeleton and set its relationships into motion with our thinking, sensing, and imagining. I believe these lessons will leave you feeling a new sense of wholeness, and you will make intriguing connections within yourself that may take you by surprise.
Extend Yourself: Can Backbends Feel Good?
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
The ability to extend your spine well is at the heart of upright vitality and posture. This 10 lesson series will take you from basic explorations of the extension pattern of the spine, to a more comprehensive skill set for combining and integrating the pattern of extension with everyday actions and movements.
Coming to Your Senses
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This series will include eight lessons exploring the space of the eyes, mouth, jaw, ears, vocal and breathing apparatus and beyond. Often working in these areas will surprisingly release tension elsewhere in the body including the lower back, hips, shoulders and the abdomen.
Feldenkrais® Mini Lessons
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
16 short Feldenkrais lessons ranging from 15 - 35 minutes. Lessons are done supine, side lying, prone, sitting, and on hands and knees. The lessons vary in length and topic, and are suitable for beginner to experienced Feldenkrais students.
Walking From Your Spine:
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
We often credit our legs for walking and running, the spine actually plays a more central role than we realize. Experience lessons designed to build awareness and skill in how the spine and torso initiate and help control our gait during walking.
The Secret Language of the Arms
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
Discover how your arms weave into the fabric of your entire being, from your core to your feet. Re-educate and re-discover the effortless movement in your hands, arms, shoulders, and beyond in this 10 week Feldenkrais series.
The Artistry of Fluid Strength
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
In this series, we will explore Feldenkrais' unique definition of what it means to be strong and resilient; where concepts of physics and artistry will intersect during the experiments of our Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement research.
YoUr PoEtiC PeLviS
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
Over ten lessons, we will explore the pelvis and its connections to the whole self. This series will help you improve and clarify the fundamental movements of your pelvis for more effective action in your daily functions like walking, standing, and sitting.
Being Good to Yourself
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
Explore lessons that promote self-connection and pleasure, finding equanimity in movement, and adapting to change with resilience. Lessons in this series will focus on the organization of the eyes and the spine to help support the head.
Autonomy & Personal Freedom
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
Teachings to empower you to find agency over your own health and sense of well being. The lessons in this series will help you discover how to utilize ground forces through your skeleton so you can find your own internal sense of length and personal freedom.
Unraveling Body Anxiety
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This course will explore how we can interrupt our habitual patterns of stress. We will investigate how we hold tension in our system, observing it and then disturbing it, and looking for sensations of comfort and pleasure.
Step into Ease: Intelligent Feet and Better Balance
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This course will bring the unique principles of the Feldenkrais method to the health and function of your feet, ankles, knees, and hips, helping to improve your balance and stability.
Posture Matters
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
In this series you will learn how you “use” yourself and how new postural habits can improve to make everyday movements more enjoyable and easy. With awareness and specificity, we will free the muscles of the neck, shoulders, and spine.
Taking Play Seriously
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This course will offer you novel, imaginative, creative ways to move your body. Stimulate a sense of curiosity, where impossible movements will start to feel more possible, possible movements more easy, and easy movements more fun!
Soften the System
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
The lessons in this course are not just exercises in relaxation, mindful awareness, or feeling good, they are ways to better know, experience, and understand your body. Get to know the sensation of a settled nervous system, a place you can return to when you need.
Finding Ease: Feldenkrais® Foundations
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This mini course will break down some of the principles that are fundamental and foundational to the Feldenkrais method, including imagination, spontaneity, play and curiosity, reversibility, and exploring the self image.
Generating Choices
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
The lessons in this course will help one sense differences in the body, select the good sensations from the useless, and help one respond to the environment around them with new options. This course is suitable for all levels and great for those new to the Feldenkrais method.
Freeing the Neck and Shoulders
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
In this course, we learn novel ways to reduce pain and tension and find ways towards feelings of comfort and pleasure in the shoulders and neck. The course will address some of the habitual postural patterns that occur when sitting at a computer for hours.
The Walking Series: Addressing Your Feet
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This series will start from the ground up by addressing the form, function, suppleness, and responsiveness of your feet. Walking is complex, but when done efficiently, it can feel simultaneously buoyant and grounded! Feel taller, stand and walk with more ease.
Your Creative Coordinated Spine
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
Your spine is a centerpiece of skeletal movement. By learning to distribute effort evenly along the spine, these lessons will improve your ability to bend, twist, and extend, offering you more options in your daily movement repertoire.
Sensing Subtlety and Satisfaction
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
The lessons in this course begin by addressing “touch hunger”, a concept that acknowledges the serious effects on our mental and physical health when we go without social touch for extended periods of times.
Ease, Grace, and Power: Mobilizing the Pelvis
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
This series will help you improve and clarify the fundamental movements of your pelvis for more effective action in your daily functions including walking, standing, and sitting.
Free Audio Lessons
If you are not sure whether the method suits you, start with the free audio lessons. Covering the Eyes is the most downloaded lesson on the site. It is a short lesson and a good introduction to how a subtle Awareness Through Movement lesson feels.
Want all of it? Join the Class Library
If you would rather have access to everything than pick one course at a time, the Class Library gives you an ongoing library of Feldenkrais and Yoga classes to move through at your own pace.
You can access the Body Matter Library for $72/month
Frequently Asked Questions
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An Awareness Through Movement lesson is a verbally guided movement exploration, usually done lying on the floor or sitting in a chair. Rather than copying a demonstrated shape, you listen and move slowly through a sequence while paying attention to how you are moving. The movements are gentle and small. The purpose is to notice your habitual patterns and give your nervous system the information it needs to find easier options.
Awareness Through Movement lessons are taught to a group and guided by voice. You move yourself, following spoken instructions. These are the ATM lessons that make up every course on this page.
Functional Integration is the one to one form of the Feldenkrais Method. The teacher guides you through movement using gentle, non-invasive touch rather than words, and the session is shaped around what you specifically need. Sarah offers Functional Integration sessions in person in Minneapolis and can discuss whether it is a good fit for you.
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No. Every course on this page is open to beginners, and no previous movement or Feldenkrais experience is assumed. If you are completely new, Finding Ease: Feldenkrais Foundations, Generating Choices, and the Feldenkrais Mini Lessons are the most straightforward places to start.
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A typical Feldenkrais lesson is 50-60 minutes long. The Mini Lessons are 15 to 35 minutes.
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Yes. Awareness Through Movement lessons are well suited to being done at home because they need almost no equipment and very little space. You need enough floor room to lie down and stretch your arms out, and something soft underneath you. A folded blanket or small towel under the head is often helpful. Many people take these lessons on a carpeted floor or a yoga mat.
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Every course purchase includes indefinite access to all recorded lesson materials. Most courses also have an option to download an audio version of all the lessons.
Also from Body Matter
Yoga and Feldenkrais blended courses
For a format that combines yoga asana with Awareness Through Movement.
Live weekly classes on Zoom
For joining a class in real time rather than working through a recording.
1:1 Feldenkrais with Sarah
For hands-on Functional Integration sessions in Minneapolis.