Online Courses & Workshops

I am using Zoom, which means that a recording of your session is included in the fee, and is yours to keep.

All my group session fees are ‘suggested-rate-or-any-donation-welcome’

All booking is via direct contact with me, by email or phone call – all my contact details are here

I teach three weekly drop-in classes online, ‘Tuesday @ Noon‘ for all comers, ‘Potent WellBeing‘ on Wednesday evenings offering Feldenkrais strategies that are specifically designed for anyone dealing with a chronic condition, and ‘Thursday @ 5‘, a very gentle class suitable for all comers but particularly for anyone managing neurological conditions or long-term injuries.

You will find more detailed descriptions of all my regular online classes on this page.

Effortless Daily Courses—Autumn 2026

Coming up next…

Effortless Head & Neck Carriage

Integrating Head, Eyes, Neck & Spine

October 5—9

Online–Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…

Times: 2–3.30pm BST/GMT ~ 9–10.30am EDT ~ 6–7.30am PDT

£100 per week (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)

Even though the pressures to survive are very different in our modern environment, we still have the sensory-motor nervous system of both the hunter and the hunted.

In the far past, when we lived surrounded by predators with only our reaction speed to keep us alive, our upright stance may not have made us the fastest runners in the animal kingdom but it did mean we were beautifully evolved to spin on our axis and run away fast as we were able if we came face to face with an attacker. Thus the freedom of our neck and eyes directly influences the mobility and coordination of our spine, and the speed of our reactions.

Our magnificent human eyes have a visual field of about 180 degrees on the horizontal plane—120 degrees of 3D vision using both eyes, and an extra 30 degrees of peripheral vision to either side. This is pretty good, but it becomes a full 360 degrees once the neck and spine are able to move freely and fully to both sides. Unfortunately if we engage only the neck and not the rest of the spine—a common habit of self-use—we can lose this valuable extra range of motion.

Try this out for yourself…

Take a moment and turn slowly to look to the right – from sitting is fine, no need to stand up unless you want to – and notice how far behind you can see, and how much your spine is twisting, Untwist and face forward again, rest for a moment and then try it to the left. Unless you are quite unusual you will find you can turn yourself to look further around in one direction.

We tend to favour an eye just as we do a hand. Now close one eye so you can look into an imaginary telescope – perhaps you turn more easily to the side with the closed eye?

These preferences influence everything we do, and although our habits are useful sometimes the way they can sometimes cause us to restrict our movements can lead to chronic pain, and speed up the effect of age on our activity.

Finding ways of undoing rigid habits is one way that Awareness Through Movement can help you reverse the ageing process. This workshop will combine subtle eye release work with spinal rotations throughout the whole self – experience a freer neck, a more responsive state of poise, and regain youthful speed and grace.

Effortless Core Integration

Head, Heart & Hara

Daily Course ~ November 9—13

Online–Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…

Times: 2–3.30pm BST/GMT ~ 9–10.30am EDT ~ 6–7.30am PDT

£100 per week (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)

I love the image above, so I hope it isn’t too anatomical for you—the origin of the word ‘core’ is the latin for ‘heart’, and this image is known as“the heart with a hoop skirt”—you can clearly see the way the diaphragm and heart are woven together via the pericardium and thushow completely our breathing and our heart functions are intertwined.

I always struggle a little when looking for ways to talk about ‘core integration’ – our culture is so heavily focussed on the idea that what makes a muscular structure healthy is its ‘strength’.

In fact the word ‘heal’ comes from the idea of ‘wholeness’ as our route to wellness, and it is more helpful to see ourselves as something like a complex woven garment, with the patterns made by the different systems within us being at their most optimal and beautiful when they are in perfect harmony with each other.

…and this means that any part of us is just as likely to be problematic because it is too tight and hard as it is when it is too flaccid and weak. It is as difficult to bring ourselves back into balance by focussing on one particular part of our structure as it would be to mend a badly-snagged scarf that way—if you have ever tried you will know that you need to pull a little here, and then a little there, gently back and forth until all the different threads are back in a more harmonious organisation. We will be finding ways to achieve this harmonising process within ourselves in this course.

Effortless Action

Moving With Cat-Like Grace

Daily Course ~ December 7—11

Please Note the Thursday class will be at an earlier time—11-12.30pm GMT

Online–Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…

Times: 2–3.30pm BST/GMT ~ 9–10.30am EDT ~ 6–7.30am PDT

£100 per week (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)

Even people who are not fond of cats recognise their innate elegance—they move with extraordinary grace and ease, even when doing something very un-cat-like—like playing the piano…

Cats are naturals at moving-with-awareness, negotiating new terrain with the focused concentration we also see in humans who have mastered light and graceful motion. The difference is that while all healthy ‘outdoor’ cats mature into masters of movement, we humans must acquire mastery on purpose, both by developing our sensory-motor and our skeletal awareness, and by then applying that awareness to learning to organise ourselves to move with that same combination of efficiency and elegance.

We will explore some of the playful possibilities suggested by close observation of the movements of cats. It will be very useful for improving the mobility of your tail-end, and for extending movement outward from your core to all four paws, a perfect course for anyone who would like to move with lightness, spontaneity and grace.

Potent Voice Sunday Workshops

Monthly (mostly!) On Sundays:

Online – Recordings & Notes included – or sign up for the recordings if you cannot join us live…

2pm – 5pm BST ~ 9am – 12pm EDT

£45 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)

The fee includes notes to make it easy for you to continue practising at home, and to minimise the need for note taking during the class.

Coming up this Autumn—Details Soon…

Potent Voice—Potent Musicality

Sunday October 18th

Singing is many things—a spontaneous act, a hobby, a healthy group activity, a skill, a craft, an art, a practice—but always a natural route to feeling joyous. In my experience nothing enhances that joy more than beginning to feel you have some idea of what you are doing; for every singer with an amazing voice there are at least as many whose performance is powerful not because of the quality of their vocal instrument, but because of the depth of expression of emotion and their ability to engage with the words they are singing and the story they are telling.

We will be looking at some strategies for improving the way we approach a song; the style, the words, the meaning, the presentation, and the sense of joy. We will be exploring rhythm and phrasing, and how authenticity and musicality can shine through even in the most timid performances.

Potent Voice—Resonance & Ease

Sunday November 15th

In this workshop we will be using sustainable sounds to fine-tune our sensory-motor and auditory awareness, and learning to reduce the habitual [and quite unnecessary] constrictions and constraints inhibiting our expressive self – vocal structures, respiratory structures, diaphragms and sphincters, and the fascial-muscular-skeletal system that together form the physical foundations of our natural resonance and vocal power. More details about the workshop on my Potent Voice page here.

People my Potent Voice workshops are beneficial for:

Singers, presenters, performers, and anyone interested in the voice, and any aspect of self-expression

Anyone dealing with chronic stress issues, or breathing problems/conditions

Anyone dealing with chronic tension in the face, tongue, jaw, neck, and throat

Anyone interested in meditation, chanting, and neural self-regulation

Anyone who feels that emotional inhibition is limiting their capacity for self-expression and self-assertion.

The fee includes notes to make it easy for you to continue practising at home, and to minimise the need for note taking during the class.

Please do contact me with any questions you may have, and note that BOOKING IS BY EMAIL, so you can contact me via this link if you want to reserve your place for any of my online events. All online sessions include recordings and notes.

Individual Vocal Training Sessions

Rather than lower my standard rate for one-to-one sessions online, which is £70 for a 75 minute session, I am offering one-to-one online sessions as “suggested fee or donation”, for the time being. The extra time is necessary for discussion and feedback. I can accept payments via BACS, and, if that is inconvenient for any reason, PayPal.

Functional Self-Integration Lessons

For anyone who cannot travel and for whom home-visits are too expensive you might like to consider individual online sessions – I am very happy to chat with you to see if we can work effectively this way.

*Suggested-fee-or-donation rate applies.

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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