- WEEKLY DROP-IN CLASSES (Online and in-person)
Start again from Mon 8 Sept
New class themes UP NOW!
info on schedule page and here - FREE CLASS for all! Friday 26th September 1.30-2.30
Crouch End Fitness Centre, Elmfield Avenue, London N8 - BOOKING NOW OPEN FOR:
-Sept 7 – Actor/Performer workshop at Sadlers Wells for Shapes in Motion
details (scroll down)
(New podcast with me related to this workshop here)
–Sun Oct 19th – online workshop for all “Anti-Sitting” On Zoom (details)
-Nov 1/2 Advanced Training for Practitioners in Amsterdam (info& booking) - Order your copy of my book ‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ at a discount direct from the publishers here.
DIP IN OR DEEP DIVE INTO FELDENKRAIS
Drop-in classes and more, so you can do as much or as little as you wish.
There are lots of wonderful tastes of Feldenkrais online – little videos and short audio lessons. You can always dip your toe in and try. I have some of those up on my website (scroll down to resources) and vimeo too.
Yes, the Feldenkrais Method can be a delicious, refreshing pool to dip in, but is also a wide deep ocean that keeps giving new insights, learning and development over days, weeks, months, years for those who wish to explore it. It can bring great benefit or relief quickly – immediately even, for some. But it is also a profound practice whose greatest gifts may accumulate and be revealed over time. Continue reading “DIP IN OR DEEP DIVE INTO FELDENKRAIS”
A Sense of Safety (1) – a short article written for the Feldenkrais Guild Newsletter, March 2019
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”
HOW DID YOU LEARN TO MOVE? Developing Agility: workshop April 28th 2018
HOW DID YOU LEARN TO MOVE?
PART 3: FLOOR TO STANDING: IMPROVING AGILITY
Feldenkrais Method workshop with Victoria Worsley
Saturday 28th April 10.30-4.30, £70/60conc
Dharma Shala, 92-94 Drummond Street, Euston, London NW1 2HN
Important: you don’t have to have done the previous workshops in the series – Each of these three workshops is valuable on its own. This is a purely practical and experiential exploration, using Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons.
Who is this workshop for?
- Anyone from any walk of life of any age wanting to improve their own comfort, ease and agility.
- An amateur or professional athlete, martial artist, free runner, dancer, acrobat, movement or sports coach interested in the fundamentals for and development of agility
- A new Mum or Dad curious about their child’s early learning or a professional working with children’s movement and development
Continue reading “HOW DID YOU LEARN TO MOVE? Developing Agility: workshop April 28th 2018”
BLACK BELT: cross-motivation
It takes quite some commitment to be knocking on the door of shodan (1st degree black belt). And as the test approaches I find I am STILL asking myself why, as a rather small 50 year-old woman – and especially as a Feldenkrais Teacher – I find myself so committed to a hard martial art as challenging as Goju Ryu karate. I have seen enough people come and go and felt the difficulty of staying with it keenly enough to know that it does really mean something – if only about me!
“Don’t you think it might be time to gently let go of Karate now?” says my own beloved Feldenkrais Practitioner as I lie on his table bruised and exhausted from blacking out and apparently breaking my fall with my chin and mouth. Continue reading “BLACK BELT: cross-motivation”
My new book for actors is out
My book, ‘Feldenkrais for Actors, How To Do Less and Discover More” is finally out.
I have written a couple of blogs for other sites about how it came to be written and what the book is about, so here are the links to those two posts: Nick Hern Books, The Actors Centre Continue reading “My new book for actors is out”
‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ – my book is out
My book ‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ or ‘How To Do Less and Discover More‘ published by Nick Hern books 
is out now. The Actors Centre, where i am doing some workshops based on it (see schedule page) asked me to write a blog for them, so I did. I thought I would post it here too:
To explain how The Feldenkrais Method© helps actors is a big job. Indeed, it’s just taken me a whole book – and even that’s just an introduction as it opens up an enormous area of study. Presence, posture, voice, breath, spontaneity, sensitivity, versatility, flexibility are all addressed by this very profound and fundamental method. Let’s just take one corner of it here:
Continue reading “‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ – my book is out”
Feldenkrais – a first generation neuroplastician
You may be familiar with best-selling neuroscience writer, Norman Doidge’s recent book ‘The Brain’s Way of Healing’ with 2 chapters on Feldenkrais in it, but if not here he is talking about the man, his genius and his Method.