All of the subjects I teach are available online.
I am using Zoom, which means that a recording of your lesson is included in the fee, and is yours to keep.
*All group class fees are ‘suggested-rate-or-any-donation-welcome’
All booking is via direct contact with me, by email or call – all my contact details are here.
Please note that a brief description of all my regular classes appears here first, and thus this list may not be in a sensible order, date-wise!
You will find more detailed descriptions of all my regular online classes on this page.
Awareness Through Movement Online Classes on Zoom*
Tuesdays @ Noon
12 pm – 1.00 pm GMT/BST
£10 per class, or any donation welcome
This class is a general class and suitable for all levels of ability – we sometimes have time for a group chat afterwards for anyone who does not need to dash away. I find that these chats are very valuable for deepening all our understanding of what Feldenkrais is all about.
Thursdays @ 6pm
6 pm – 7 pm GMT/BST
This is a very gentle class and particularly suitable for anyone with chronic issues with injury, pain, or fatigue.
£10 per class, or any donation welcome
*Regular attendees will receive all recordings and notes even if they miss a class
These are ongoing classes, so the intention is for you to commit to attending on a regular basis: once a week is good, twice a week is better. Feldenkrais is about learning to learn; these are skills that you will develop over time with practice, and the benefits you will experience are also cumulative.
One reason I am so enjoying teaching on Zoom is the facility to share a recording of the class so you can build up an archive of lessons to explore whenever you wish.
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Your Potent Inner Voice
Sensory Self-Awareness for Self-Healing
Wednesday Evenings
7–8.30 pm GMT / 1–2.30 pm EDT (BST from March 29th, so EDT will be 1 hour earlier again!)
Online + Recording
£15 – or any donation welcome
These extended evening classes focus on my Feldenkrais-based self-healing strategies, and the recordings are intended to make it very easy for you to develop these skills for yourself. I am exploring the evening format with the intention of supporting better sleep as well as pain relief and self-calming. I do realise that those of you joining us for elsewhere at different times of day may not be looking for such a soporific experience!
*Please note that you can choose to join us for the first hour only, particularly if that would make joining the class regularly more manageable for you.
Dr Stephen Porges PolyVagal Theory provides an explanation for the efficacy of breath and voice practises at a neurological and evolutionary level. Our nervous system is focussed on our safety, and our sense of safety is fundamental to our sense of wellness. The vagus nerve manages both our older reptilian stress management circuits and our newer mammalian circuits, and we can use the management of our to soothe ourselves, increase our sense of safety, and shift our nervous system into our rest-and-recuperation mode – the neurological state that switches on our self-healing mechanisms, and helps to promote our physical and mental resilience.
Every time we inhale we briefly stimulate our sympathetic state-of-readiness (known as our fight-or-flight mode), and then, as we exhale again we shift back into our rest-and-recuperate mode – so all we need to do to soothe our nervous system is to exhale for a little longer than we inhale – it is that simple. This is I am sure the reason why there is so much evidence that singing is proven to be good for the health. When you examine the evidence you quickly discover that it is all based on research into communal singing, but once you understand Porges theories then you can easily see how to use these practices in a way that is effective even when you are singing while home alone.
You will need to book with me directly to get the Zoom link, and a recorded version of the lesson is included in the fee. Bookings are by email, or via my contact information page.
This will be a very practical course and you will receive notes and supporting materials to help you maintain the improvements you experience from this immersive Awareness Through Movement experience.
Daily Immersive: April 3rd – 6th
Better Eyes With Feldenkrais
Better Vision, Better Motion, Better Coordination
April 3rd – 6th
Daily Class [4 Days Only] – Online + Recording
Monday–Friday 2–3.30pm BST/9–10.30am EDT – 1 hour earlier on Tuesday 4th
£75 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
Alert, mobile, responsive eyes are vital for every aspect of our relationship with our environment…
how we move with ease over any terrain…
how we carry our heads and adjust our sense of equilibrium to maintain our upright posture…
…and how we process all the visual information that we are bombarded with every day.
Even more important than all this is the way our eyes communicate our internal state of being to each other. Thanks to Dr Stephen Porges well-established Poly-Vagal Theory we know our eyes are central to the way we form and maintain our interpersonal relationships from birth onwards. We now have scientific proof that the eyes are indeed the windows to the soul. Learning to let go of the deeper tension in an around our eyes is an ideal tool for release and relaxation.
Moshe’s eye lessons are quite distinctive, being aimed at improving vision without the need for props, which means you can practise them anywhere, which is particularly useful if you are aiming for long-term improvements in your vision.
Simple techniques combining movement and imagery, regularly performed, can bring both immediate and lasting benefits to our eyesight, our posture, our inner calm and our social ease. This is because our eyes occupy a considerable area of our neuro-body-map, so soothing our eyes calms our whole nervous system, shifting us into a deep state of parasympathetic “rest and recuperation”– the state in which our immune system boots up our natural self-healing process
You will need to book with me directly to get the Zoom link, and a recorded version of the lesson is included in the fee. Bookings are by email, or via my contact information page.
This will be a very practical course and you will receive notes and supporting materials to help you maintain the improvements you experience from this immersive Awareness Through Movement experience.
Potent Voice: April 16th
Developing The Voice As An Instrument
Sunday April 16th – Online + Recording
2pm – 5pm BST [9am – 12pm EDT]
£40 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)D
What Kind Of Instrument Is The Human Voice?
Musical instruments come in a huge variety of forms; expensive; high quality; yearned for; too big for the lounge; too loud for the neighbours. Maybe you prefer something smaller; hand-crafted; portable; battered; beloved. Instruments can be so complex they require years of practise before anyone other than those who love us would willingly choose to hear us play, or so simple that a child can play you a tune after her very first lesson. Instruments can be well-made and sturdy, or cheaply-made and disposable, and still bring pleasure to both player and listener.
Some instruments are the sort that some players believe will improve with age; this idea is more defensible when instrument is made of something living, like wood. When a battered old horn survives into old age it may well have always been a little bit special from the beginning.
When it comes to the human voice we each possess an instrument with enormous range, stamina, and individuality. Of course the instrument we have is just as important for speaking as it is for singing, but it is natural to think about musicality in this context – this article is a bit of a placeholder, written back when I was mostly writing about the singing voice – more of relevance to our everyday speech will follow soon, in the meantime, enjoy!
Feldenkrais Fundamentals:
Focusing On Our Hands
Sunday April 23rd – Online + Recording
2pm – 5pm BST [9am – 12pm EDT]
£40 (suggested fee, or any donation welcome)
Our hands are a wonderful way to access the learning processes of our brain-and-nervous-system. We are still in the early days of understanding just how important “neuroplasticity” – i.e. our brain’s capacity for life-long learning – is when it comes to our ongoing well being, but what is well understood that our hands are some of our most densely connected structures neurologically. The ‘wiring’ of our brain is constantly influenced by our behaviour; the more we do a particular thing, the easier it gets to do it, and with enough repetition you can drive to work while composing an email in your head, or play a familiar chord sequence while anticipating the snack you are going to eat on the way back from the gig.
Hands are so influential because they are the structures we use to manipulate our world, and the structures we use for so much of our sensing of our world. In this model of the sensory-motor nervous system eyes, ears, lips, and feet are also very significant – if you make a representation of this “somatosensory homunculus” you get an unattractive little ‘man’ with big eyes, a big mouth, big ears, big feet and truly enormous hands.
Later in his career Feldenkrais saw the potential for using our hand movements as a self-calming strategy, thanks to the size of the neural territory involved – soothe and soften your hands, soothe your whole nervous system. He came up with a powerful practise he called The “Bell” Hand, and during my training it became my first proper strategy for self-soothing. I was just becoming conscious of how chronic my own state of hyper-arousal was as I was realising that the bell hand was effective for lowering that arousal, and easy to incorporate into my daily activity. I am certain my previous Tai Chi training contributed to how quickly I took to this particular movement practise. Slow, sensitive, attentive hand movement is at the core of the martial practises, known as “forms”. Later through learning some Qi Gong I came to experience the sensation of energy in my hands, and my understanding of the benefits deepened.
In this workshop I will be exploring the potential for improving motor awareness in the hands, building a clearer sense of the hands as a sensory detection system
Our hands are a wonderful way to access the learning processes of our brain-and-nervous-system. We are still in the early days of understanding just how important “neuroplasticity” – i.e. our brain’s capacity for life-long learning – is when it comes to our ongoing well being, but what is well understood that our hands are some of our most densely connected structures neurologically. The ‘wiring’ of our brain is constantly influenced by our behaviour; the more we do a particular thing, the easier it gets to do it, and with enough repetition you can drive to work while composing an email in your head, or play a familiar chord sequence while anticipating the snack you are going to eat on the way back from the gig.
Hands are so influential because they are the structures we use to manipulate our world, and the structures we use for so much of our sensing of our world. In this model of the sensory-motor nervous system eyes, ears, lips, and feet are also very significant – if you make a representation of this “somatosensory homunculus” you get an unattractive little ‘man’ with big eyes, a big mouth, big ears, big feet and truly enormous hands.
Later in his career Feldenkrais saw the potential for using our hand movements as a self-calming strategy, thanks to the size of the neural territory involved – soothe and soften your hands, soothe your whole nervous system. He came up with a powerful practise he called The “Bell” Hand, and during my training it became my first proper strategy for self-soothing. I was just becoming conscious of how chronic my own state of hyper-arousal was as I was realising that the bell hand was effective for lowering that arousal, and easy to incorporate into my daily activity. I am certain my previous Tai Chi training contributed to how quickly I took to this particular movement practise. Slow, sensitive, attentive hand movement is at the core of the martial practises, known as “forms”. Later through learning some Qi Gong I came to experience the sensation of energy in my hands, and my understanding of the benefits deepened.
In this workshop I will be exploring the potential for improving motor awareness in the hands, building a clearer sense of the hands as a sensory detection system
Please do contact me with any questions you may have, and note that BOOKING IS BY EMAIL, so you can contact me from this link if you want to reserve your place for any of my online events.
You are also always welcome to sign up for the recordings and notes of any course should you be unable to join us live.
More dates for your diary in May coming soon…
Daily Classes – Monday to Friday – Date & Theme TBA
Potent Voice – Sunday – Date and Theme TBA– 2-5pm BST
Fundamentals – Sunday – Date and Theme TBA – 2-5pm BST
…All online sessions include recordings and notes. For more details click here for workshops, and here for regular classes…
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
I am still exploring ways to share my self-healing Quintessensual Consciousness practice. While this is still in the development stage I am offering a special rate of £40* for individual online sessions. This is a version of Feldenkrais focussed on pain and stress relief.
There are more details on my Home page, and several articles about it in the Writing area of my website. Do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to discuss with me whether this form of meditative training might be of help to you.
*Suggested-fee-or-donation rate applies.
Many years ago I recorded a short lesson about breathing – here is a link to this lesson in the archive on the Feldenkrais UK Guild website – enjoy!