Alina Komnatnaya - Feldenkrais® Practitioner, Awareness Through Movement®, Functional Integration®, Chronic Pain, Pelvic Health, Pelvic Floor, Children with Special Needs, Cerebral Palsy
 
 
 
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PELVIC WELLNESS

  • Do you feel that your pelvic floor needs more attention and care?

  • Are you pregnant?

  • Do you want to optimize your postpartum recovery?

  • Do you suffer from pelvic pain, incontinence, or a prolapse?

I combine my professional training in the Feldenkrais Method® with my interest for pelvic health and my experience of a mother of three, and I am passionate about women’s journeys.

While not substituting for medical care, I can help you to create more awareness and integrate your pelvic floor into everything you do. We can do this in three different ways:

CHRONIC PAIN

  • Are you discouraged after seeing the endless number of professionals, saying you different things about your pain?

  • Are you tired from being fixed .. again and again, and ready to take charge?

  • Do you want to understand how your own movement or stressing habits can hold you back from recovery?

I my approach, I combine the Feldenkrais Method® and educating clients about the neurobiology of pain.

While not substituting for medical care, I will help you to understand how you can move safely and balance your nervous system response. Movement can become easier so there is less strain on joints, ligaments and muscles.

We can do this work individually, or in a group setting.

 
 
 

© International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden

© International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive, Robert Golden

 

CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

  • Do you care for a child with a neuromotor disorder (i.e. cerebral palsy), or an early brain injury, including stroke?

  • Was your child born prematurely?

  • Do you feel lost and disoriented, and needing help with planning your child’s (re)habilitation journey?

  • Do you want to understand more about your child’s brain ability to learn and change, as well as to find practical ways to enhance your child’s learning to move?

I am walking in your shoes as I have been caring for a child with special needs for over 10 years. You and me working together, we can help your child to perceive what he/she is doing and introduce the experience of movement variations they have not generated for themselves.

I also want to support you, as I know you need it as well. I can help you to improve your emotional and physical wellbeing, and understand through sensing in yourself what is needed for efficient movement, so that you can start seeing your child’s ability through a different lens. 

 
 

There are two ways I can work with you:
individually or in a group.

 

GROUP LESSONS:
AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT®

We'll guide you through a process of movement exploration that supports a relaxed yet attentive state. These explorations use movements derived from sports, dance, and the martial arts, natural patterns of neurological functioning, and developmental movements as observed in babies and children.
Weekly classes are available in Hamilton during the school term.

INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS:
FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION®

These sessions are designed around your individual needs and evoke a sensation of the support that your skeleton provides. You will sit or lie, comfortably clothed, on a low padded table. You will be guided through safe, effortless movement, and we will use precise touch to include unfamiliar and unknown parts of your body into your sensory awareness. These gentle processes can lead to lasting changes in your posture and movement.
Currently my practice is located 10 min North from Hamilton, you’ll get the address in your booking confirmation.

 
 
 

In collaboration with other Waikato practitioners,
we offer a number of workshops

 

PELVIC FLOOR WORKSHOPS

We run workshops throughout the year to help you discover Secrets and Power of Your Pelvic Floor. Our 2 Day workshops include several Awareness Through Movement® lessons, practical anatomy demonstrations and fun activities to know this part of yourself better and make it more responsive.

Please click below to find a workshop, or sign up to our newsletter on the Home page.

CORPORATE AND TEAMS

We are happy to create a lesson or workshop for your team around their specific needs:
- do they spend a lot of time sitting by a screen?
- do they have to stand and use their arms a lot (like hairdressers)?
- do they have to bend a lot and pick up someone or something from the ground (like childcare teachers, gardeners)?
We can help you to find movement solutions to their problems.

 

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