Feldenkrais Workshops

More immersive experiences for enhanced learning

We may be used to thinking of strength and power as something that is the domain of the musculature, and that improvements are gained through repetitions of particular exercises for specific muscle groups.
Well of course that is an important piece of the story. But it is not the whole story.

We know that we do not function muscle by muscle - or even in groups of muscles - but in large patterns that involve shifts throughout our whole system. Just to lift your arm doesn’t just involve the muscles of the arm, but all the musculature of the torso and neck that is involved in lifting the arm; all the muscles of the pelvis, legs and torso that help counterbalance the weight of the arm lifting - and so on.
And we know that muscles do not do anything just of themselves. We need the nervous system to anticipate our intention to lift the arm, to understand its weight, directional of travel, the speed and quality we intend to move with; to put the whole pattern together and so instruct the whole system – including the muscles of the arm.

But this doesn’t happen out of nowhere. Our nervous system has learnt and distilled our own personal patterns of moving over a lifetime of experience. This learning might prove pretty good for lifting an arm, or it might inhibit or get in the way of lifting the arm optimally, or even involve strain or joint stress. And when that is the case, what happens when we load that lifting arm with weight? Does it strengthen us or simply train us further into patterns that are not working well? How long before training into the faulty pattern simply increases limitations or produces injury?

But how to address something so foundational? Can we correct it muscle by muscle? We have already seen that is not how the system functions. Muscle by muscle would only ever be partial. So are there ways of becoming more aware of our deeper underlying patterns of movement and begin to re-learn and improve those foundations so that lifting the arm becomes better supported, easier, integrated with more of ourselves as a result?

This is the kind of thing The Feldenkrais Method can enable and that we will use in these workshops. It will involve slowing down (a lot) to feel and discover. It will involve going back to the floor to try out, explore, and improve skills from the ground up.

And it will help us start to address:
-How force is transmitted from the ground through the skeleton to strike, pull, push, leap or kick with more clarity and simplicity so that if/when you use weights or resistance (or however you like to train) you can train into better, more efficient patterns.
-How you can get your ‘mass’ behind your strike, swing or throw more clearly rather than relying on ‘muscling through’ and reduce the way you might be inhibiting your ‘acceleration’ with inappropriately timed muscle tension (as in force equals mass x acceleration)

Email Victoria here for enquiries or to book

WORKSHOPS FOR EVERYONE
AUTUMN 2026

Two online workshops on Sunday Afternoons:
"EXPLORING SKILL FOR STRENGTH + POWER"
Sept 27th and Nov 22nd 2-5pm
£35 for one and £60 for both.
includes link to basic zoom video, (of teacher only), for a minimum of 6 months

Practitioners, please go HERE for Advanced Trainings and Mentoring