A private Feldenkrais session, called Functional Integration, is a hands-on form of kinesthetic communication. Kinesthetic learning is a teaching and learning style in which learning takes place by the student actually carrying out a physical activity, rather than verbal corrections.  The emphasis here is on: 

• the process of learning, rathan than correcting
• how to vary a habitual movement, rather than correcting the habitual movement
• empowering the student to be his/her own judge, rather reliant on the instructor's approval
• discriminating differences through sensory-based experience rather copying a model
• excelling at your strengths by leveraging your weakness

The Feldenkrais practitioner communicates to the student how he/she organizes his/her body by providing gentle tactile feedback to the pupil, based on his/her preferred / habitual choices with respect to weight bearing, sitting and standing patterns, directions and degrees of rotation, and areas of elongation and shortening, postural tilt, areas of underuse and overuse, etc. Throughout the sessions and in various positions, the students is coached into awakening, sensing and recognizing patterns of common self-use.  From these familiar places and positions can then emerge new patterns and possibilities.  To do something new, one must first do deliberately what's he's always been doing unconsciously.

In a few sentences posted on http://wakeup-feldenkrais.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-version-what-is-feldenkrais-method.html: This is a way of learning how to learn, based on the primacy of movement in life in general and human life in particular. Our brains are set up to learn, and moving is the most primary way our brains were set into motion (literally and figuratively) to learn, and learning by moving with awareness is the quickest and sweetest way to radically improve almost anything in our lives.