Energized, Aligned and Enthused

with Chell Norton

Chell Norton shares her experience of being a member of Movement and Creativity LIVE. (formerly called JKA Membership)

I started out skeptical & accepted the inevitability of being physically limited

I started out this adventure feeling skeptical that I could be helped. I didn’t believe I would be able to “keep up” or do all that we would be taught. I had pretty much accepted the inevitability of being physically limited in my range of motion and ability to move with ease and grace as I once had.

And then

My attitude and expectations have completely transformed and I have been aware for the entire year of a growing sense of trust and belief in my ability to change. It even seemed effortless, like I wasn’t doing enough to experience the enormous changes that were happening in my body.

My sense of mental and emotional well-being has returned and it’s not that I feel like the person I used to be… I feel like a whole new me is emerging.

This really works!

I had spent many years pursuing various forms of physical therapy, yoga, Pilates, Feldenkrais, visualization etc. All of these things were good for me and beneficial and kept me on my path of healing… But this past year has been totally unexpected! This really works!

Movement and Change

I go back to do Feldenkrais lessons fairly often but I have found that I prefer the upright lessons more than I expected… I enjoy more movement (floor and standing) and it seems that the type of movement that we do in JKA is much more conducive to the change that I have been searching for.

It’s hard to express but it just seems inspired in such a new and truly beneficial way the way we have worked through very subtle movements that make huge changes in the body, emotions, mental well-being and deep satisfaction.

Energized, Aligned and Enthused

I haven’t ever experienced anything quite like JKA the way I can start out feeling so tired, stiff and unresponsive then gradually transition into feeling energized, aligned, enthused and transformed into yet another level of well-being.

Another way I could say it is when I was doing Feldenkrais for the past eight years I felt resigned to not being able to ever make much progress and it felt so good to be able to lie on the floor and relax into the most beautiful and restorative motion I had ever experienced. Unlike Yoga and Pilates it never hurt me or made me feel inadequate…

It was the most freeing form of therapeutic movement I had ever known to be able to move a little or a lot depending on the condition of my body in that particular time and place. There was nothing to reach for and strive for.

With JKA I felt challenged but in a totally non-threatening way… I was led step-by-step through an expanding series of movements that were gradually expanding my total well-being.

I was able to reach for a little more in each lesson but never with the sense that there was a perfect or right way to move or perform. There was encouragement without pressure… A sense of possibility without necessity.

After the first three or four months I was thoroughly hooked because I sensed deep inside that my effort was truly bringing about the permanent change I had secretly hoped and believed I could experience one day.

It’s hard to put into words but the feeling is real… And I am deeply and incredibly grateful!

I’m feeling myself gradually transform into a more flexible and aligned person. I have felt supported without even asking for specific help in all of the ways I was needing to reestablish my balance, alignment, strength and well being.

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Movement and Creativity Live Membership:

Practices, tools and community to support you to:

⇨ move from disconnection / pain / anxiety / overwhelm / stress / low energy

⇨ to connection / inspiration / mobilty / stability / strength / presence / enthusiasm

⇨ expand your abilities to move / sense / feel / think / imagine / create

⇨ build an alive, evolving and deepening practice

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Bring positive changes into your everyday movement, vitality and creativity via the Jeremy Krauss Approach + Feldenkrais + Organic Intelligence + Creative Process.

"What discoveries and joys through this membership, above all a big sense of trust grew within me day in and day out, in my body, in my learning, in my experience in the possibility of things in general!"- Roza Maragopoulou