Core Movement Integration—CMI—is the result of more than forty years of work by Dr. Josef DellaGrotte, Feldenkrais® practitioner, trainer, and founder of the CMI approach.
CMI blends movement education, manual therapy, and somatic science to help the whole body move with more ease, balance, and natural coordination.
What Makes CMI Unique?
A Whole-Body Approach
CMI looks at how your entire body moves—not just one muscle or joint at a time.
Using the Six Core Movement Pathways, CMI helps release and reorganize the movement patterns in your:
- bones
- joints
- muscles
- tendons
- ligaments
- fascia and connective tissue
This whole-body reorganization creates movement that feels integrated, relaxed, and supportive, whether you’re sitting at your desk or training for a sport.
Grounded in Somatic Science
CMI draws on the best of Feldenkrais, neuroscience, biomechanics, and fascia research to help you understand and improve how forces and movements travel through your body.
What CMI Helps You Achieve
Reduce Pain & Move with More Ease
By restoring natural movement patterns, CMI helps reduce pain and the strain that builds up from non-functional muscular compensation and habitual patterns.
Improve Posture & Balance
CMI gives your body a more stable foundation, allowing you to stand, sit, walk, and move with better alignment and less effort.
Increase Mobility & Strength
You’ll develop stronger, more coordinated core and skeletal support—the kind of strength that shows up in everyday life, not just in workouts.
Enhance Daily Life, Leisure, and Athletic Performance
Whether you’re reaching overhead, gardening, lifting a suitcase, practicing yoga, or playing a sport, CMI helps your movements feel more natural, efficient, and enjoyable.
A Body That Supports You
Core Movement Integration helps you reconnect with how your body is meant to move—so you can feel more grounded, balanced, and capable in everything you do.
Experience a body that truly supports you with Core Movement Integration.
“CMI is easily customized to each person’s needs to enhance comfort and mobility. The practice applies effortlessly to daily life, making movement safer, more efficient, and more effective.”
– ND, Vermont Client