January is a busy month! As well as the Queens Park morning on FEET (see previous blog), I am doing ‘Mobilise the Spine’ at the City Lit in central London, 10.15-5.15 on Saturday 21st Jan and ‘The Architecture of Strength part 3’ 10.30-4.00 at the Haelan Centre in Crouch End, North London on Sunday 29th Jan. Continue reading “Feldenkrais Workshops in January”
Feet
On request, The Queens Park monthly Saturday Morning Feldenkrais on Jan 14th will be on the theme of FEET. It came up in the break this month because so much is going on with people’s feet, from crossing toes and over-pronation to plantar fasciitis. Continue reading “Feet”
The Starting Line: Why I Run Without Shoes
For two and a bit years I wrote a kind of a blog (or a rather one-way discussion) on the discussion page of my Feldenkrais Works Facebook page about my progress with running in vibrams/barefoot – until Facebook removed all discussion pages a month ago and I lost it all. Continue reading “The Starting Line: Why I Run Without Shoes”
The Set-Up
As an actor I used what I learnt from Feldekrais a great deal. Not always consciously, but it informed how I went about things, how I could feel myself and use myself. And now as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and movement teacher, how I did that is much clearer to me. Continue reading “The Set-Up”
A Couple of Nice Discoveries
I started out on a run a couple of days ago that felt very bad. I felt tired and heavy and cursed myself for just not finding the time to run enough lately (whatever enough is – it seems to vary for me). I have noticed that on days I feel heavy it is often because my upper back and chest are just not helping out so my pelvis can’t function so well and then Continue reading “A Couple of Nice Discoveries”
Getting Rid of Rules
One of the best things about Feldenkrais for actors is that there are no rules. Its all about exploration and not at all about ‘do it like this’. Of course there are better and worse ways to do anything but it depends from person to person (we all have different structures and a different starting point) and according to what we want to do. Continue reading “Getting Rid of Rules”