your body

Feldenkrais

and Bones for Life

  • From the impossible to the possible, from the possible to the easy, from the easy to the elegant.
    Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais
  • It’s really great to experience your body as this thinking, problem-solving entity… Wow! That’s amazing!
    Rhea L., Dancer, Theater Professional and Professor
    Louisville, KY
  • The problem is I have been trying to use my analytical mind; I am learning to let my body do the thinking!
    Larry K., Theologian and University Professor
    Lexington, KY

The Feldenkrais Method of Movement and Somatic Education is one of the original modern bodymind practices…

… and remains one of the most potent holistic disciplines available today. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have benefitted from the Feldenkrais Method since its origins in the 1940s. Its practitioners have been utilizing and testing the now commonly-understood principles of ‘neuroplastic’ change since decades before the term ‘neuroplasticity’ even existed. Bones for Life is a more recent innovation informed by Feldenkrais principles, with special emphasis on posture and walking.

For women in the Renaissance Stage of Life, Feldenkrais and Bones for Life offer something particularly valuable: a way back into the body that’s completely different than yoga, exercise, martial arts, or dance. Gentle but effective, non-invasive, and endlessly adaptable — it meets you exactly where you are and brings about rapid positive developments.

How the Feldenkrais Method can benefit You:
  • Provide a reliable and pleasurable way to regulate your nervous system
  • Contribute dramatically to your self-awareness and confidence
  • Produce remarkable, fast improvements in uprightness and mobility
  • Offer fresh approaches to better balance at any age
  • Deepen your breathing
  • Restore mobility after surgeries, accidents, or periods of inactivity
  • Improve flexibility, especially if you prefer an alternative to yoga

The Feldenkrais Method is accessible to beginners, while also valuable and challenging for sophisticated movers such as dancers, athletes and yoga practitioners. Lessons are directed lying down, seated on the floor, standing, seated in a chair, and several other positions. There is a vast catalog of lessons to draw from, making it possible to address your specific needs, especially if you’ re working with an experienced practitioner. Lessons are often touch-assisted by your Feldenkrais practitioner. Lessons are also easily adaptable for groups of almost any size.

MERIAH KRUSE has been a Feldenkrais Practitioner since 1999 and a Bones for Life Teacher since 2012. Prior to that she was a massage therapist and dance educator — over 30 years of working with bodies, restoring ease, and helping people move through the world with greater confidence, self-expression, and pleasure.

She has studied with many of the world’s foremost Feldenkrais and Bones for Life professional trainers, including Jerry Karen, Beatriz Walterspiel, Deborah Bowes, Mary Spires, Jeff Haller, Russell Delman, Larry Goldfarb, Alan Questel, Cynthia Allen, Denise Dieg, Brenda Sorkin, Lavinia Plonka, Anastasi Siotas, and many others.

MERIAH is currently available for:

  • Individual sessions by appointment (very limited availability, Lexington and Central Kentucky only)
  • Group Introductory Workshops or Lecture-Demonstrations for: yoga studios, physical therapy and Pilates studios, educational institutions, fitness centers, health-related practices, and conference planners
  • Contact Us to learn more and discuss your particular needs.
  • I… am so happily delighted to get to experience first hand your superb gifts. You love the body and its ways so much, and you see it and speak about it so clearly! …One way I think about your gifts as teacher and healer is that you know so much that you are comfortable and skilled with both the smallest details and the most expansive vision of what is possible. Forest and trees, both… You are a wonder.
    Rona R., Organizational Consultant and Activist, Lexington, KY

I look forward to hearing from you.

Meriah Kruse
Feldenkrais Practitioner since 1999
Bones for Life Teacher since 2012

For additional information re: Feldenkrais, visit the Feldenkrais Guild of North America

For additional background on Bones for Life, visit Future Life Now

*Feldenkrais Practitioners receive extensive training, generally 800 hours over a 4-year period, and are trained exclusively by Guild Certified Professional Feldenkrais Trainers. Trainings and advanced trainings are available worldwide in the U.S., Mexico, Stockholm, Barcelona, Lisbon, and other locations. Bones for Life Teachers receive 210 hours of training in the basic program, advanced study, practice teaching, and a specialized teacher training. [1, 2]

NOTE: “The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education,” the “Feldenkrais Method”, and “Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioners” are registered trademarks of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America. “Bones for Life” is a copyrighted term owned by the Foundation for Movement Intelligence.

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