“A Functional Integration® session with Donna relieved my chronic pain, for the first time in years. Because Donna is the only professional that has helped me, I sometimes refer to her as the “magic pain healer”. Personal sessions with her are like beautiful treats in life.”

Functional Integration® Sessions

“Movement allows us to exercise prerogative, our basic freedom of choice.”

~Moshe Feldenkrais

During your Functional Integration® session, Donna will design a lesson based on your individual needs. She will help you to reach your personal goals no matter what unique challenges you may be facing. Using her hands she will stimulate the intelligence of your neurological system and create movement for you that you may not be able produce on your own or during a Feldenkrais® class. As a result, you will learn how to integrate your whole body into movement when participating in your life’s activities. This will allow you to move more powerfully and elegantly while using less muscular effort. She will teach you awareness so that you can help yourself and feel when a habitual way of moving can lead to injury. Your new sense of awareness will allow you to choose to move the ways that you want.

Functional Integration® sessions are effective in helping people reduce back and neck pain, as well as recovering from sport and work related injuries. It is also beneficial in helping people that are dealing with neurological injuries, repetitive strain injuries, strokes, cerebral palsy, and other physical disabilities, learn new or forgotten movement. Sessions help people to learn how to move more gracefully and in the most favorable ways for sports, recreational activities and for performances in the arts. People often report that Functional Integration® sessions “feel better than massages” and that after a session they feel relaxed and re-energized.

Donna Bervinchak is available for private sessions by appointment only.