The models are not reconcilable — and that is fine
Acupuncture is embedded in a framework of meridians, qi and energetic balance. Feldenkrais is embedded in mechanics, neurology and learning theory. You cannot merge them. But you do not have to believe a therapy's origin story to find out whether it helps, and many people use both without feeling any need to reconcile the metaphysics.
What the evidence actually shows for acupuncture
This is worth being precise about. Large meta-analyses of acupuncture for chronic pain generally find it outperforms no treatment, and usually outperforms sham needling by a small margin for some conditions — a margin big enough to be measured but small enough that reasonable people disagree about whether it is clinically meaningful. The honest summary: acupuncture appears to produce a real but modest effect, plus a substantial non-specific effect from the ritual, the attention and the expectation.
What Feldenkrais offers instead of that effect
Feldenkrais does not rely on a placebo-responsive ritual. Its premise is that if you change the organisation of a movement pattern, the measured outcome — range, effort, comfort — changes too, and you can verify that yourself immediately. Stand up, turn, notice. That self-verifiability is its strongest feature and also its marketing problem: it does not feel like a treatment, so people underestimate it.
What each is good at
Acupuncture: pain modulation, particularly chronic headache, some musculoskeletal pain, nausea. Short sessions, low effort on your part, minimal learning required.
Feldenkrais: movement quality, balance, chronic postural load, and — most importantly — the transferable skill of noticing and changing a habit.
Which to try first
If your primary complaint is pain and you want symptom relief with minimal personal effort, acupuncture is a reasonable and low-risk thing to trial. If the pain is bound up with how you sit, stand, walk or work — and especially if it returns when treatment stops — Feldenkrais addresses the layer that keeps generating it. Trying acupuncture for six weeks and learning nothing about yourself is a perfectly legitimate choice; just do not mistake it for a solution.
Safety
Acupuncture by a licensed practitioner using sterile single-use needles is low risk, with occasional bruising or dizziness; serious events such as pneumothorax are rare. Feldenkrais has essentially no reported serious adverse events — the main risk is temporary soreness from using muscles you have not used in a while.