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…
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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…
Feldenkrais can change your life. Some people “get it” straight away, and those people often go on to become my colleagues. Others come along to classes and workshops regularly and have the odd hands-on lesson every few months, but never…
In my mission to discover the full potential of sound-making, singing, and the human voice, it has become more and more clear over the years that the ability to maximise our hearing by improving the way we listen is a vital element of both the tonal qualities available to us when we vocalise, and the ease with which we produce our voice in speech and song.
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” Niels Bohr (Physicist)* Pain is something of an issue for teachers of the Feldenkrais Method. First of all…
Grace is one of the benefits that I offer to entice potential students to come and try out my classes, but I suspect for many people achieving physical grace may seem too distant a possibility. It is a lovely word,…
Awareness Through Movement® = Well-Being Through Well-Doing It was thirty years ago that I limped into an Awareness Through Movement class at the Brighton Natural Health Centre, stricken with an unexpected bout of sciatica, and strode out free of pain six…