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Accessing the Genius Within: Healing Physical and Emotional Injury With Cortical Field Re-Education® and Feldenkrais®

Feb 13, 2026 – Feb 20, 2026 · 8 days · Big Sur, CA

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Accessing the Genius Within: Healing Physical and Emotional Injury With Cortical Field Re-Education® and Feldenkrais®
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Retreat overview

How we sit, stand, move, and respond to our inner and outer world reflects deeply ingrained patterns wired into our nervous systems since childhood.

They reflect our early solutions to physical survival in our family system.

Out of awareness, these beliefs and strategies can still run our adult lives, limit our choices, and prevent physical ease and emotional healing.

If you still have pain or limitations from a past injury, it is usually because many other areas in your body had to overwork to protect and avoid using the injured area while you were recovering.

These unconscious compensations can create an imbalanced workload and, eventually, new issues elsewhere in our body that prevent complete healing.

Using CFR®, we slowly explore and deeply sense small, gentle movements that bring these hidden patterns into awareness.

When our genius nervous system becomes aware of a habit that is no longer useful, it extinguishes it.

A greater experience of self-trust and self-worth is uncovered.

A new sense of self-love, which comes from paying attention to your details without judgment, usually emerges.

This workshop is for the sedentary who want to become more active, the highly active who want to avoid injury and gain a competitive edge, and the chronically tired and stressed who want to improve breathing, posture, and flexibility.

It is for those who have experienced physical injury or emotional trauma and those in helping professions who wish to enhance outcomes for clients and patients.  

You will leave equipped with simple yet effective tools for continued self-healing.

Your discoveries will lead to a state of awe about what is possible in your body, your movement, and your life.

Recommended Reading:

Somatics by Thomas Hanna and The Elusive Obvious by Moshé Feldenkrais

Teachers: Tomas Prietto, Judy Greenman and Monica Lesslie

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About Esalen Institute

Big Sur retreat campus known for experiential workshops, contemplative practice, and ocean-view renewal.

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