Feldenkrais Workshops

More immersive experiences for enhanced learning

These workshops are for anyone interested in strength and power for any reason: for sport, dance, a martial art or simply for what we all need for everyday life and for ageing without frailty.
You can do just one workshop on its own or both (zoom recordings are available for part 1).

Obviously this is a huge theme and these are just short workshops, but I hope they will be enough to open a story that we could continue if there is interest. These are Feldenkrais workshops, but they draw on my experience as a 2nd dan blackbelt in Goju ryu Karate and from many years of running as well.

Part 1 in September addressed some of the foundational organisation for pushing, pulling, punching, throwing.
Part 2 on Nov 22nd will be about Propulsion. It could be for lunging and moving across the floor (or even for knee kicks) in your martial art; it could be for running, for jumping and leaping - or just more ease and speed in walking! It might affect your uprightness into the bargain.

The Questions:
Is training for strength and power only about working on muscle groups - or is there more to the story? Given we know we involve our whole system to rebalance and support limbs in action of any kind, it makes sense to think of finding strength and power in that more integrated, functional way too. Many do.

But there is still more to the story. We weren't born all wired up and ready to go. We have learnt and distilled our own personal patterns of moving over a lifetime of experience. And while some of those life-long habits of moving may be the very thing that makes us ‘good’ at dynamic activities, not all will be optimal. That may not matter when we are going about daily life, but what happens when we start to train or exercise more? At what point do we train further into those patterns that are not working well? Will that make us more skilful, more powerful or build in more limitation, strain - or even injury?

But how to address something so foundational and so individual? Correcting consciously muscle by muscle doesn’t always cut it when we are thinking about our deeper, underlying, highly-nuanced patterns that involve so many parts. Can we become more aware of how we act and begin to re-learn and improve those foundations so that any action becomes better supported, easier, better integrated - more skilful - as a result? How?

The Approach:
This is the kind of thing The Feldenkrais Method can enable and that we will use in these workshops. It will involve slowing down to feel and discover. This workshop will involve some work in standing but mostly going back to the floor to try out, explore, and improve skills from the ground up.

Examples of what I aim to include in part 2:
-How force is transmitted from the ground through the skeleton with more clarity and simplicity so that you can train into better, more efficient patterns.
- Exploring bending and extending patterns using feet, hips and the whole back in relation to the ground (using 2 very different - and sometimes challenging - ways) to enable more spring!

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 PRT 1: Pushing, pulling, striking, throwing
Nov 22nd PRT 2: Propulsion
2-5pm (uk)
£35 for one and £60 for both (video of Prt 1 available).
includes link to basic zoom video, (of teacher only), for a minimum of 6 months

Practitioners, please go HERE for Advanced Trainings and Mentoring