Your Potent Self It is always a joy for me to connect with a new Feldenkrais student who understands that there is more to the Method than simply learning how to move ‘better’. I have been asked what a good…
Category: Awareness Through Movement
“Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.” Moshe Feldenkrais; Embodied Wisdom–Collected Papers, 2010 We are formed by an alliance of many, many cells; “a cooperative community…
Interwoven throughout this course introduction are videos from Alexandra Beller’s dance company, exploring how babies move, led by her child, Ivo. These films are lovely; joyful and inspiring, and very like the movement sequences I teach in my classes every…
I regularly teach breathing-focussed workshops and classes – both as a Feldenkrais teacher and as a voice teacher – and this information is always an important aspect of better vocal health and function, but more than that it is important for our…
At first glance the Feldenkrais Method can seem to be entirely aimed at helping our students to move better, with more ease and grace. In fact it is intended to be a tool for facilitating change in our lives; for…
According to Gautama Buddha himself: “There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And…
Feldenkrais as a “method” is a most unusual process; the over-arching goal is to expand conscious awareness in such a way that new behaviour becomes easier to incorporate into daily doing and being, and as a consequence new life possibilities…
I teach approaches to breathing from many different angles: I am a Feldenkrais teacher, so breathing in a free and fluid manner is a core element of every lesson I teach, in my classes and on my table. I sing–to…
The free movement of your pelvis is vital to the ease and fluidity of your walk, and once your pelvis is fully involved, walking will contribute to the health and longevity of your skeletal and muscular structures, as well as…
We inhale, we expand our thorax, and we gently massage our lower organs; then we exhale, we relax, we release and ‘let go’. There is a natural pause–a short one–and then the whole cycle of alive-being begins again, spontaneous, effortless,…