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慢性のヘルニアで5回の手術を経ても痛みが改善せず、医者には次はボルトを入れないとダメかもしれないと言われていました。ずっと座っていると、立ち上がりも難しく、仕事から必要なたったり座ったりの作業が大変辛く感じておりました。1ヶ月前にたち座り歩きのセッションを一度受けましたが、それ以来、痛みが嘘のように改善し、椅子に座っていても前のように腰を曲げないと立ち上がれないとか、いつもザワザワすることが、全くなくなりました。日常で意識を持つことでここまで変化が現れるのかと不思議で感謝してます。」（６０歳女性・配達業・兵庫県）

「尚子さんとのセッションを通して、今まで向き合ってこなかった自分の気持ちや、人生において繰り返し顕われる課題について、思いを巡らせるようになりました。また、当然だと思って受け入れていた自己認識や社会規範を見つめ、ストレスを感じたときの身体反応をメタ認知することで、心身の「しなやかさ」を保つ術を学べたような気がします。」（３０歳男性・会計士、東京都）

「尚子さんのクラスを受けるようになり、身体の中を感じるということを学んでいます。そうすることで、身体の不調を薬や、整体など直接的に直すというよりも、まずは感じることで身体の根本原因を探っていくことができるようになりました。そこから、自分の背骨の歪みや、右左の重心の違い等色々見つかり、その不調全てがつながっていることも感じました。長年悩んでいた膝痛改善、生理痛改善、精神的安定等も自分の身体を感じて、受け入れることで身体が素直に自然な姿に戻っていくのがわかります。」（２７歳女性・ダンサーM.S.さん、大阪府）

“I injured my back during the summer of 2020 and because of the pandemic, it was almost a year until I saw a chiropractor and physical therapist. It was better, but I still had lower back and hip pain and sciatica for the next two years. I couldn’t dance, and I could barely walk. Every step was painful. Naoko worked on me, and now I don’t have that pain anymore! I am jogging around and dancing again! It’s hard to believe how an hour of gentle nudging could fix pain I had for years.” (Ginni Stilts, Interior designer, PA)

"After my session with Naoko the excess tension and discomfort on the entire left side of my body was gone. I was balanced equally left to right side and had a more substantial relationship to the ground. I felt connected and energized and the improvement was long lasting.“ (Temple, NC)

“I’m a full-time chef and use my hands so much. I had persistent headache for months due to the intense work schedule. I had virtual private session with Naoko. I felt so cleansed after the session and my headache was all gone, to my surprise. I regained energy and was able to get through the week with hard schedule! (H,K. NY)​

"Naoko is a powerful practitioner who has helped me so much with my back issues.” (P. B., New York)

"Naoko's presence is amazing. During a session with Naoko, I can feel a deep shift happening in my body. I feel changed. That is the very reason I come here." (Jose, NY)

”After the session, my feet feel so strong that when I’m standing in the kitchen, I feel like I can do things.” (Woman with Multiple Sclerosis, NY)

”I feel so open! I can play (my viola) so much better after the treatment.” (M.C. Musician, New York)

“omg, Naoko Maeshiba is a genius! Her Feldenkrais classes are changing so much more than my posture. Exploring the body in relationship to performance, performance energy, how posture and alignment fully transforms then body's sense of itself and my personal sense of myself. It's MAGIC! Except it's REAL. (Pele Bauch dance artist, New York)

“I had neck tightness on the left side for years. It just released after one session. I can feel I’m being reorganized from the tips of toes to the top of my head. It’s so complete. It’s so special. (E.E., NY)”

“I love Naoko! She is an exceptional practitioner. I went into my body so deeply during the session.” (D. H. New York)

”Her work is so tender and sensitive. After so many years of not feeling my body, I’m so happy I can feel it again!” (M.F., NY)

​"When I stood up from the table, I felt like I was gradually enfolding. My hip felt so open and and the chest area felt like it was in one piece. (J. G. NY)

“The effect is so immediate. I feel my hip and head are so free. (C.Z. New York)

​“After one session, I slept so well!” (D.K., MD)

​“She has an astute eye and quickly identifies patterns of tension in the body. Her hands on approach is direct and gentle.” (A. K., NY)

"Naoko has a rare skill to turn pain into joy." (T. M., New York)

"I feel centered in a familiar, but unusual way.”  (Peter, Baltimore)

"She has a light, warm, and firm touch. " (Stephanie, MD)

”I’ve never felt like this. I always thought my body was a certain way. But it wasn't.” (Young actress, NY)

グループクラス

“I wanted to say that this class is like a thousand therapy sessions without a therapist.”

"As I touch my spine, I feel sore spots I didn't know existed!  This is profound.”

"I had a headache & now it’s almost gone.”

“I love this class. I feel so relaxed ad I notice differences. Through the week, I felt myself practicing the new breathing. Please don't end this class. It's wonderful.”

“Why is it easier to stand up after your class than it is other times?”

“One class, even a few minutes, is Each class is a thousand, wordless therapy sessions without a therapist.”

“I had a lot of pain in my right neck at the first part. I still wanted to slowly continue. After it all I felt tingling & I really felt much better!”

“Feeling so much better! Thank you Naoko! I’d forgotten how good my body could feel!

“This was phenomenal. I usually have a lot of pain and this lesson helped me a lot."

“This is miracle- I've been doing the lessons everyday and I feel much less pain.”

“There we learn about our body, we awakening our true self on all level - thank you!”

“This is my first time and I was starting too all asleep at the beginning, but I felt weirdly connected in the end.”

“I do meditation and usually get this tingling feeling. The difference today was that the tingling feeling lasted all the way through and even now. It was particularly interesting to feel all other parts of my body.” Marilyn

“It is like re-programming. You need to stay with it, then something surprising happens. “ Gina

“I almost fainted. I saw white light and got deep rest. It was good. “ Shelly

“Toward the end, I was experiencing pretty severe pain deep in the pelvic ligaments and muscles. I realized it was pain from childbirth years ago ( I had an epidural so felt nothing a the time ) I was able to let that go...thank you so much.” Deborah

ワークショップ

‘To say that Naoko's workshop changed my life is no understatement. I found a depth that I never found in any of my previous acting, improvisational or dance work.  During the exercise called Minute Speed, I came face to face with the Zeno's paradox, where we can never reach our destination because its distance can be infinitely divided in half.  That among other work changed how I saw movement forever. I have been very fortunate that Naoko gave me the opportunity to explore this work over the last 8 years. I have gained levels of concentration and stamina I would not have imagined.  This is not easy, pretty work. I have been challenged to explore the unknown and to stay with what I wanted to run from.  The reward has been in the journey. In so many performing arts forms, the performer is swept away by the choreography, music, text or emotions like a leaf in the wind.  Through this imagery and sensory work, the body mind becomes part of the natural and unseen worlds, while the head mind steps outside to witness the dance.  It allows the performer and audience a glimpse of the potential we have as humans.’ (Jen Young, Personal trainer/dancer, Washington DC)

“Naoko’s workshop transformed our performers and our production. The work with body awareness and breath has brought a presence and energy to our performers that we have never seen before. Her approach to teaching is experiential and rooted in immediate practice. In the first hour, we were moving and engaging with each other in deeper and more subtle ways then I have ever experienced. Naoko brings so many different embodied perspectives and approaches to the work from theater, to dance, to health and wellness. She helped us deepen our cross-disciplinary thinking, but we also found the core truths that ran across our different practices. We were all over the place with our ideas and methods for choreography. Through simple and thoughtful exercises, Naoko helped us find a rich movement vocabulary that already existed within the work but was obscured by our own overthinking. Her embodied approach opened up our bodies to the power of presence and our individual strengths as performers. She immediately had us moving and exploring our bodies in new ways that we had never experienced. We are all trained dancer and performers, but it was like I was discovering my potential for the first time. Her methods are deceptively simple, and yet created potential for a depth of quality that our performers had never felt before. Maeshiba uses a verity of approaches from theater, to dance, to everyday movement in her classes. My initial skepticism was quickly replaced with a deep sense of joy, meaning, and engagement with her and my colleagues. I forgot about my phone, stopped worrying about my emails, and felt truly present for the first time in years. I saw the world anew in all its texture, emotion, and potential.'“ (Sydney Pink, Visual artist/Performer, Baltimore)

“Naoko is a passionate and skilled movement teacher and somatic practitioner. Her knowledge of the body comes from years of deep investigation into performance and somatic study and practice. She is an attentive and generous teacher who helps her students reach high levels of body awareness and creative expression. During a week-long performance workshop with Naoko, I experienced profound shifts in my body and consciousness. She creates a learning environment that is welcoming to all. She attends to the group while also providing individualized attention. The practices I learned from her continue to significantly inform my movement/performance work.” (T.C. Baltimore)

“Class was great! I was very aware of my spine for most of it. When we were working with the tongue and esophagus, I had this feeling of elongation as if I was being stretched along a pole going through the middle of my body. I think the image of the chakras aided in that. My core felt very activated. I enjoyed thinking about the breath as something that comes outside to the inside and vice versa. “(L.P. Michigan)

パフォーマンスメンタリング

”In my 30-year career as a choreographer and teacher, I have had many collaborators, and all those who work with me know that I can be highly demanding.  I found Naoko’s blend of professionalism and artistry unique. Naoko has many qualities that commend her: deep knowledge in choreography and theater, somatic practice, organization, etc. There is one aspect, however, that rises above the rest, She has both an intellectual brilliance and amazing intuition.

She is always responsible and fully immersed in the idea we are working on. As a dramaturg for my dance company, we always have lengthy discussions to clarify and discover a deeper meaning of my work. She understands me, and she pushes me to be a better version of myself as an artist. What a joy and a blessing to collaborate with her.” (Anabella Lenzu, choreographer/performer, NYC)

”Naoko brings her wealth of knowledge about body, dance, and performance in her mentoring and teaching. By taking her class and workshop, I learned a lot about these things. However, what makes her extremely appealing is her expressivity and world view as an artist. In her art of teaching, body, language, performance, and life are all connected. She guides the students through her poetic language so masterfully that I always forgot time was passing! She also never forgets to give undivided attention to each individual student. Her class focuses on the basic principles about how to exist on stage with potency - how to maintain high level of consciousness, how to grasp physicality and its relation to psychology, how to create more potent relationship between one’s body and another body, and how the body can affect the energy of the space. I’m so surprised that it changed my ability to express so much after taking her workshop. “ (Mayu Shirai, dancer, Japan/New York)

“Naoko’s level of discipline to the craft motivated me, Her selflessness inspired me and her focus on the little things overall changed my trajectory. We can have grand ideas and ambitions but if one is not geared towards improving and mastering the little things in his/her own life, that big dream that exists will never come into fruition like it’s designed to. She said something I will never forget. She said “Jacob, I can see you struggling with something. Do not concentrate on the end result, concentrate on your next step of your path, give it everything you have and then once that is complete take another step. You will reach your destination through the process.” Thank you again for teaching me and impacting my life in such a strong and positive way.” (J.J, actor, GA)

”In my 30-year career as a choreographer and teacher, I have had many collaborators, and all those who work with me know that I can be highly demanding.  I found Naoko’s blend of professionalism and artistry unique. Naoko has many qualities that commend her: deep knowledge in choreography and theater, somatic practice, organization, etc. There is one aspect, however, that rises above the rest, She has both an intellectual brilliance and amazing intuition. She is always responsible and fully immersed in the idea we are working on. As a dramaturg for my dance company, we always have lengthy discussions to clarify and discover a deeper meaning of my work. She understands me, and she pushes me to be a better version of myself as an artist. What a joy and a blessing to collaborate with her.” (Anabella Lenzu, choreographer/performer, NYC)

”Naoko brings her wealth of knowledge about body, dance, and performance in her mentoring and teaching. By taking her class and workshop, I learned a lot about these things. However, what makes her extremely appealing is her expressivity and worldview as an artist. In her art of teaching, body, language, performance, and life are all connected. She guides the students through her poetic language so masterfully that I always forgot time was passing! She also never forgets to give undivided attention to each individual student. Her class focuses on the basic principles about how to exist on stage with potency - how to maintain high level of consciousness, how to grasp physicality and its relation to psychology, how to create more potent relationship between one’s body and another body, and how the body can affect the energy of the space. I’m so surprised that it changed my ability to express so much after taking her workshop. “ (Mayu Shirai, dancer, Japan/New York)

“Naoko’s level of discipline to the craft motivated me, Her selflessness inspired me and her focus on the little things overall changed my trajectory. We can have grand ideas and ambitions but if one is not geared towards improving and mastering the little things in his/her own life, that big dream that exists will never come into fruition like it’s designed to. She said something in Directing class I will never forget. She said “Jacob, I can see you struggling with something. Do not concentrate on the end result, concentrate on your next step of your path, give it everything you have and then once that is complete take another step. You will reach your destination through the process.” Thank you again for teaching me and impacting my life in such a strong and positive way.” (J.J, actor, GA)

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