Movement is Life with the Feldenkrais Method®

From Side to Back

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

A Fresh Look at Standing

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

Comfortable with the Unknown

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

Drawing Circles in the Cosmos

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

Curiosity and the Hands

Feldenkrais Lesson with Emma Alter

In this lesson Emma explores the movement of the hands from babyhood to now. 

From the 2023 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Learning with Curiosity”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

In Bed - Pressing the Heels

Feldenkrais Lesson with Niall O'Riordan

I recorded this lesson especially for people who find themselves confined to bed. 

From the 2023 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Learning with Curiosity”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Transitions Matter

Feldenkrais Lesson with Nikhila Em Ludlow

This simple and early-learned transition movement of rolling from back to side.

From the 2023 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Learning with Curiosity”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Baby Babbling

Feldenkrais Lesson with Anita Fenoughty

In this rather silly and fun lesson we shall turn back our personal clocks to infancy and through a series of playful movement experiments, inspired by The Feldenkrais Method, re-engage with the first steps on our vocal journey.

From the 2023 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Learning with Curiosity”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Recovering the Natural Length of the Spine

Feldenkrais Lesson with Philippa Castell

This lesson aims to help you find new options and freedom for moving, in a direction which we generally spend less time exploring once we are adults.  

The aim is not to strengthen the extensor muscles but to make more skilful use of them, and to explore how the whole back can be responsive to our intention to look around the room while we're lying on the belly.

As you do this lesson, start gently, move slowly, and rest as often as you need.  Emphasise curiosity over ambition; curiosity about new sensations, about how your intention to look around your environment can help you discover a more integrated, less effortful way of moving. Focus less on achievement and more on discovering ease, comfort and enjoyment.

 

From the 2023 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Learning with Curiosity”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Neck & Shoulder Tension

Interview and mini lesson with Caroline Scott

A guest interview with Yorkshire-based Feldenkrais practitioner and dancer Caroline Scott, who gives a free mini Feldenkrais lesson to help with neck and shoulder tension at your desk.