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”Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.” - Moshe Feldenkrais // We offer deep dives into the interior of our sensing, moving, learning selves. Mind/body/brain explorations to unravel tensions, work with difficulties and journey towards peaceful ease. // Listen and be guided to follow along with our Awareness Through Movement® lessons. Suitable for all. You only need a bed or floor to lie down, with extra pillows for comfort.
Episodes
Saturday Sep 28, 2024
Balance & Uprightness - Eyes & Pelvis
Saturday Sep 28, 2024
Saturday Sep 28, 2024
A Feldenkrais ATM with Nikhila Em Ludlow.
The eyes and the pelvic floor have many different functions, but one they share is the sense of balance and uprightness so needed for ease of orientation in space.
Saturday May 11, 2024
Counting Out Seconds
Saturday May 11, 2024
Saturday May 11, 2024
Feldenkrais Lesson with Scott Clark
The Feldenkrais Method enables us to explore a huge range of human behaviour, from aspects of anatomy and movement to more abstract issues like attention. Indeed, attention is the primary tool by which the Method works; in that, it is somewhat similar to meditation.
Here is a story from the Buddhist tradition that may be useful: a musician asked the Buddha to explain meditation. The Buddha said “You are a lute player; meditation is like tuning the lute. Your attention must not be too tight, nor must it be too loose!”
This lesson explores exactly that - a way to tune your attention. It’s done while sitting, so find a chair or stool with a more or less flat, level seat, and sit with your feet in good contact with the floor. I hope you find the lesson enjoyable & useful!
From the 2024 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Transitions”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
Friday May 10, 2024
Rolling from Side to Front
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
Feldenkrais Lesson with Hannah Wheeler
In walking we make a series of mini transitions, shifting our weight from foot to foot, one leg must be stable for the other to move freely. This Awareness Through Movement lesson explores how we can find more clarity of movement in the hip joints and pelvis to discover more ease in walking. In this lesson we lie on the side and explore ways to gently roll toward front lying, sensing and releasing muscle holding that is getting in our way. This is one of my favourite lessons for finding a more dynamic and grounded standing posture after - the movements we play with while lying down help us sense where our hip joints are so we can move in smoother more efficient ways.
I recommend taking a little time to walk after. As you transition from lying to standing and walking, notice if there is more simplicity and ease to the action of walking. As you also transition from this short time of sensing yourself moving to also paying attention to the world around you as you walk, can you retain some attention to the sensations in your body? How does this feel to you now?
Take the lesson at your own pace, adapt it if you need and listen to what feels right for you from the inside.
From the 2024 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Transitions”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
Thursday May 09, 2024
Smooth Eye Tracking
Thursday May 09, 2024
Thursday May 09, 2024
Feldenkrais Lesson with Kristin Fredricksson
In 'Seeing to Infinity', we play with how the way we transition the eyes through space influences our movement and how we feel in the world. Improving tracking with the eyes improves the quality and smoothness of movement generally. This can help us feel safer and calmer in our environment. As with any lesson, and especially any with the eyes, go easily and slowly and rest when you need to.
From the 2024 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Transitions”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Are you ready to stand up?
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Feldenkrais Lesson with Josephine Horder
From the 2024 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Transitions”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Spring Awakening - Sensing Ground Forces
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Feldenkrais lesson with Sharon Gimpel
A short lesson exploring the force coming from the ground through the whole body - a world of connection from foot to pelvis through the spine to the head.
Feldenkrais said that babies are already preparing for learning to walk when they are on their backs playing and exploring gravity. I still remember the joy and surprise on my daughter’s face when, as a baby, she pushed her foot into the ground and felt her head moving - that’s the beginning of eventually standing and moving upright. This lesson is a short example of this theme on which Feldenkrais built so many of his lessons.
From the 2024 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Transitions”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
Monday May 06, 2024
From Side to Back
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
Feldenkrais lesson with Shelagh O'Neill
Moving from one thing to another - we do it all the time.
This simple lesson, moving from side to back, can help us understand how clear articulation can make any transition easier.
Managing transitions is a great test of resilience and flexibility. How quickly do we go? So quickly we can’t really manage the change? (perhaps we’d rather not dwell too long). Or so slowly we forget the intention? And apart from speed, what other factors seem relevant - comfort, attention?
Understanding the range of movement possibilities can help us find the way to do something with clarity and focus.
This lesson is a brief dip into the way the Feldenkrais Method brings freedom of action - not only in physical movement, but the way we think about enacting change.
From the 2024 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Transitions”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
Saturday May 13, 2023
A Fresh Look at Standing
Saturday May 13, 2023
Saturday May 13, 2023
Feldenkrais Lesson with Scott Clark
Feldenkrais lessons are conversations that we have with a part of ourselves we don’t know very well. This lesson is done in Standing.
From the 2023 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Learning with Curiosity”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
Friday May 12, 2023
Comfortable with the Unknown
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Feldenkrais Lesson with Ana Stojadinovic
In this lesson we are exploring the foot and its movements in space. Lying on the front.
From the 2023 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Learning with Curiosity”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
Thursday May 11, 2023
Drawing Circles in the Cosmos
Thursday May 11, 2023
Thursday May 11, 2023
Feldenkrais Lesson with Alan Caig Wilson
Alan explores the uncertainty in balance based on his own lived experience. The lesson can be done in a wheelchair, chair or lying on the floor.
From the 2023 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Learning with Curiosity”
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk