Physical Training, DNS is relatively new to the States, with only about 20 U.S. practitioners. On the school's website, I watch a video of a naked baby turning, rolling, and crawling (examples of innate motor patterns) and a woman in a bra and underwear being turned, rolled, pressed, and flexed on a table by a doctor with a Slavic accent in a lab coat. With specific manipulations, the adult neuromuscular system, it seems, can be rebooted to reclaim healthy patterns. This notion of returning to a place of postural innocence seems to be the zeitgeist in bodywork circles. Esalen, the famed healing retreat in Big Sur, California, offers Cortical Field Re-education (CFR)?a fancy way of saying getting the brain to talk to the body. One of Esalen's CFR specialists, Susan Jouett, does private touch-based therapy sessions to reset unconscious patterns and leads group classes in which students, eyes closed, lie on the floor and go through a series of babylike movements to reconnect with their earlier, posture-perfect selves. "We try to put back in neurological information the body has forgotten," Jouett says. Since I live too far away to sample either of these options, I decide to check out some mind-body modalities closer to home. First stop: The Feldenkrais Institute, a loftlike floor of therapy and classrooms in lower Manhattan. The Feldenkrais Method, like the Prague School's DNS and Esalen's CFR, aims to relieve pain and improve posture by using a combination of manual therapy and guided movements to teach