I am delighted to announce my new

Feldenkrais Access Course

Well-Connected

A Feldenkrais Approach to Managing Joint Hypermobility

Eight Week Summer Course

Thursdays; May 29 – July 17

12:00 PM-1:15 PM EDT

5:00 PM-6:15 PM BST

6:00 PM-7:15 PM CEST

7:00 PM-8:15 PM IDT

9:00 AM-10:15 AM PDT

The First Class is free!

…so to register for the free class, and for pricing information – (including early-bird rates) – click on this link!

Do you often trip over your own feet? Or have unexplained joint pain? Or joint weakness, dislocations, or frequent injuries? If so, you are not alone. You may be on the ‘Joint Hypermobility Spectrum.’ Hypermobility is a connective tissue condition that causes our ligaments and tendons to be looser than normal. This can undermine the stability of our joints and make our body’s support system less effective.

Hypermobility effects people of all ages, and its severity varies widely. Some people are slightly hypermobile, and don’t even notice it. Other people with more significant hypermobility experience frequent sprains and intense joint pain that comes and goes, without apparent cause. Additional signs of hypermobility can include numbness in your limbs upon waking, or postural characteristics such as “collapsed” ankles, or “locked” knees.

Feldenkrais lessons are an ideal resource for people with hypermobility, because they are gentle, safe, and personalized. In the most natural way possible, they interact with your brain’s neuroplasticity to improve your muscular and skeletal organization.

We are delighted to announce an eight-week series with Guest Feldenkrais Teacher Maggy Burrowes addressing the unique concerns of living in a hypermobile body. Maggy has hypermobile joints herself, and has been using the Feldenkrais Method to live well with hypermobility, and navigate its unpredictable challenges.

With this series of Feldenkrais lessons, Maggy will guide you in developing better proprioception and a helpful understanding of your skeletal structure. You will learn how to reduce joint pain and muscular fatigue by distributing movement more evenly throughout your body, and how to let go of the unconscious effort involved in “holding yourself together,” while gaining comfort, stability, and greater safety in your daily activities. This series is intended for those with hypermobility, and will also benefit anyone interested in improving their movement patterns and sense of structural integrity.

I have written an article about my own experience with Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, and you can read it here:

Dynamic Stability And Hypermobility Syndrome

This series will help you to:

Improve your relationship with your structural hypermobility
Develop your sense of internal connections
Improve your balance and coordination
Improve your self-organization in sitting, standing, and moving
Feel yourself moving in a more integrated and coordinated way
Move with greater confidence and safety
Transfer effort from your overworked muscles to your skeletal structure
Refresh your essential movement patterns
Help your body to feel less unpredictable

“The depth of sensitivity and awareness that these lessons bring is truly astounding. What brilliance!”
– Previous Course Participant

Registration includes:

Eight Feldenkrais lessons
Two live Q&A sessions
Assistance during the live lessons, if needed
Information to help you adapt the lessons to alternative positions
Lifetime access to recordings and option to download

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A first Experience Of Feldenkrais

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)

Embodied Voice – an attendee’s experience…

“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