1 to 1 Lessons

Functional Integration is the name given to individual lessons.

In this situation the practitioner can tailor the lesson to the needs of the individual. The client is typically lying or seated (fully clothed) on a low table.

The practitioner guides the learning by means of clear touch and gentle movement which helps the nervous system become aware of habitual patterns and to explore new possibilities. This in turn supports increased freedom of movement and action.

I am offering individual sessions in Dublin on Thursday afternoons and evenings and in Sligo (usually) on the last Sunday of the month. The lesson lasts 50/55 minutes and costs €80.

Please wear clothes that do not restrict your movement e.g. jeans are not usually a great idea.

Please contact me on 0863825128 to make an appointment.

Client feedback: -

Functional Integration classes are rather intriguing: I have come to improve the way I move but spend most of the session lying down. No demonstrations or illuminating verbal instructions from Padraic. 

Instead I feel increasingly like a (very relaxed!) living sculpture to which the artist is putting the finishing touches: gently pulling, pushing or realigning parts of my body.

So it comes as a bit of a surprise to discover after the lesson that Padraic’s Feldenkrais skills have brought a delightful – at times exhilarating - ease and energy to my movements: a sensation of reduced friction in the joints and muscles, less gravitational pull on me. The body seems to have learnt faster than the mind.

- Frances, Sligo

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