Year: 2021

Freeing & Coordinating Ribs, Spine & Breast Bone

4 years ago
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I teach online Feldenkrais workshops for the ribs and sternum regularly* – these are areas of the self that we do not always expect to exhibit much in the way of free and fluid motion. Our – very bony –…

A Deep Dive Into Our Senses

4 years ago
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A Deep Dive Into Our Senses Enhancing Your Sensory Awareness with Feldenkrais 10–Day Immersive Summer School August 11th–15th & 18th–22nd Times: 2–3.30pm BST ~ 9–10.30am EDT ~ 6–7.30am PDT Online – Recordings & Notes included £200 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome) The way we…

Qi-Essensuality – Feldenkrais for Fine-Tuning Your Senses

4 years ago
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Feldenkrais Training for Enhancing & Fine-Tuning All Your Senses Upcoming Summer School A Deep Dive Into Our Senses August 11th–15th & 18th–22nd 2 – 3.30pm BST ~ 9 – 10.30 EDT ~ 6 – 67.30am PDT £200 – or any donation you can afford People still refer casually to humans having five senses – seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling… …however…

Tongue Organisation: Better Breathing, Better Swallowing

5 years ago
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Tongue Awareness – an exploration… Before you continue reading this article, pause for a moment, close your mouth, softly, so that your lips could easily form a smile, and bring your attention to the inside of your mouth… Allow your…

Feldenkrais is Jazz! Improvisation & The Artistry Of Being

5 years ago
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“Can you see that my lessons are…improvised, yet they are improvised with a method. That’s a funny thing. …It’s all the time improvisation but it has a method in it, therefore it’s jazz. …It’s playing music on certain notes, making…

Neuroplasticity & Biotensegrity

5 years ago
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Two Exciting New Paradigms for the 21st Century “So long as what we do here is only about the movement, it is not important. We use the movements only to learn the process of self-organisation. You will find that self-organisation…

Awareness Through Movement

Walking – the perfect form of exercise for city folk!

5 years ago
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*Contact me directly if you are interested in this workshop, or join my mailing list for regular updates… Walking is wonderful, freely acknowledged as great for improving your health, and your fitness – but I am sure you already know…

Moving with Awareness & Integration…

5 years ago
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Effortless Core Integration* Upcoming Daily Immersive Course Integrating Spine, Psoas & Diaphragms November 4th – 8th Online + Recordings & Notes 2–3.30pm GMT ~ 9–10.30am EST ~ 6–7.30am PSTPlease note we start two hours earlier on Tuesday and Friday £100 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome) In this daily class I…

Feldenkrais: a new take on Ju-Jitsu for the 21st Century

5 years ago
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by Maggy Burrowes
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The Feldenkrais Method is all about enabling, supporting, generating, enhancing, and encouraging life-long human self-development, both for the individuals who adopt it as a practice, and potentially for human society itself, because the processes we engage in are so fundamental…

Learning with awareness…

The most common feature of people who achieve indescribable and superb performance is the hours of daily practise they all undertake throughout their lives. Hours of repetitive practice is hard work; hours of practicing awareness in movement or action remain the most absorbing and interesting time in our lives. The feeling of being alive relates to the awareness of growing to be oneself.

The Elusive Obvious, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1981)

I did not know what to expect from, or after the first Feldenkrais workshop I attended. I found the sequences gentle and relaxing. It was liberating and exhilarating to feel different parts of my head, neck and shoulders moving independently – as they did so there was a sense that they were strengthening. During the course I learnt that these gentle movement lessons could heal pain experienced in the body. I was, at the time, experiencing discomfort in my knees when going downstairs. I was also experiencing pain in my right shoulder which had begun approximately three weeks before the workshop.

The day after I was completely free of pain, both in my shoulder and my knees. I walked downstairs in a way which would be considered usual as a way of descending stairs. I had not descended stairs in this way for approximately three years. I had either relied heavily on the handrail for support, or taken the steps one at a time – how wonderful it was to be pain free.

Marion Goldstraw (2008)

“Thanks very much for your wonderful voice course. I am still working through the material and have a much larger range at each end of the scale. It was really interesting to have speech contextualised into its effect on laryngeal movement and brought me a new awareness in that area and a sense of how voice production affects the diaphragm and its attachments to the spine, rather than just the other way round.

The untrammelled, quite deep (for me) voice that your workshop gave me at the end was gratifying but it changed into something different later. Your workshop also changed my listening. Yes it it true that I still sing out of tune (I can hear it now) but I had an experience towards the end of your workshop – I stepped out of the passageway from the studio into the street and all the cars and trucks and drills and birdsong were a symphony! It was so weird – I never usually listen much let alone savour such sounds and I certainly never realised they were all at different pitches. I must stress that I am not musical and this was not my usual perception of the world.

Rosalind Brown