AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT CLASSES
Details and Themes for Jan/Feb 2025

Mon 7.30pm (UK)
ON ZOOM
drop-in £10
and
Tues 7.45pm
IN PERSON
Haelan Centre
London N8
£72 for 6
(occasional ad hoc availability)
requires booking

Theme: ‘Longer Hamstrings or Longer Reach?’
This classic flexibility test of touching your toes shows up that is not just about stretching your hamstrings, but how you use every part of yourself to reach, lengthen and fold. There is plenty here to explore and improve in untraditional ways that have more to do with skill and agility than just stretching.

Weds 10am (UK)
ON ZOOM
Drop-in £10
email for links

Theme: ‘Lying to Standing’
Taking a gradual, detailed and exploratry approach, we can make these fundamental transitions from lying to sitting and stting to standing easier, smoother and more efficient to improve the quality of your art, sport, training – and life.

Fri 1.30pm
IN PERSON
Crouch End FItness Centre
London N8
Drop-In £10
Pay at reception on arrival, or book via the venue’s app

Theme: ‘Improving Hips, Knees, Feet’
Well-functioning hips, knees and feet are fundamental to our mobility and stability. We can improve fluidity, ease, balance and power through the detailed exploration of our habitual self-use, as well as a variety of new possibilities in these classic awareness through movement lessons.

 

Just a tiny post now we in the UK are really in Covid19  world, especially in London, with everything face-to-face cancelled and at least a partial shut down just a few hours away probably.

I’m so sorry not to be able to see you all face to face until the other side of this.
However I am in the process of learning to do zoom and will be resuming classes on zoom next week or the week after.

I am thinking what other resources I can offer on-line during this time, including whether it is possible to do mini workshops, and even some one-to-one sessions for those interested. Give me a little time to adjust and check back in. I will be sending out emails when I done too, so do sign up to my mailchimp list or email me to do it for you if you want up-to-date information.

My heart goes out to all who are more at risk, I have many around me too.  If there is a silver lining to this weird Covid world, we can at least find new ways to communicate, work, and get inventive with our slower pace of life.

More to come in virtual land.

Stay safe and stay in touch.

As of writing this is a difficult situation to navigate. I read authoritative articles that tell me to keep a sense of proportion, that the media are blowing this up and that give reasons we are not the same as Italy. I also read authoritative articles that say our government is being irresponsible by not bringing in stronger measures, cares only for the economy and is happy to let people die.

Continue reading “COVID-19 Update: Primum Non Nocere”

As of writing there are only 300+ confirmed cases in the UK and we have to keep in mind that for most people this is a mild disease with good, often quick recovery (which the press is not so interested in reporting). However with the possibility of it spreading quite quickly and the fact that many of my clients are in high-risk groups I started taking precautions last week which I will set out here. I can not guarantee your safety obviously but I can do my best: Continue reading “covid19 policy for your sessions from March 2020”

Over 12 years of teaching the Feldenkrais Method I have come to realise how much the ability to breathe and move freely and not feel the need to push, strain, brace or pull oneself together tightly depends significantly on our fundamental sense of safety.  Whether it is through many little experiences, a persistent condition, injury or major trauma, many of us discover at some point that we are vulnerable. Continue reading “A Sense of Safety (1) – a short article written for the Feldenkrais Guild Newsletter, March 2019”