Movement is Life with the Feldenkrais Method®

The Eyes to the Pelvis: Bridge to Engine-Room!

Feldenkrais lesson with Alan Caig Wilson

Exploring stable mobility, this short lesson works with the neurological link between the outside world and the essence of you as a moving being. As a side-benefit it can make your visual world a brighter, clearer and more detailed one. 

From the 2025 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Balance”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Breath and Balance

Feldenkrais Lesson with Sophie Arditti

This is a playful and potentially challenging standing lesson which asks you to connect weight shift to your out breath. Have a high-backed chair, counter-top or wall nearby and prepare to feel grounded and refreshed afterwards!

From the 2025 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Balance”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Rolling our Feet and Head for Better Balance

Feldenkrais Lesson with Yeu-Meng Chan

This lesson explores the relationship between our feet and our head to find a sense of balance within ourselves.

From the 2025 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Balance”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Intelligent Movements of the Foot

Feldenkrais Lesson with Garet Newell

This lesson explores the various movements of the 26 bones and 27 joints of this extraordinary part of our anatomy. Our feet need to be intelligent, ie sensing, feeling and reacting to the changing environment so that we can more easily maintain our balance. 

From the 2025 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Balance”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Balance & Uprightness - Eyes & Pelvis

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.

Counting Out Seconds

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

Rolling from Side to Front

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

Smooth Eye Tracking

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

Are you ready to stand up?

Feldenkrais Lesson with Josephine Horder

Josephine Horder, professional cellist and Feldenkrais practitioner

 

This is an 18 minute lesson exploring the role of feet in alert sitting and readiness to stand up.

 

Moshe Feldenkrais proposed that a hallmark of an efficient action is that it requires no preparatory adjustment. In light of this, the question becomes - are your feet positioned in such a way that you are ready to stand up? Or even - is the whole of you connected to your feet so that you are poised and ready to stand up?

 

As a cellist, I have had a career-long apprenticeship in sitting. It has been a revelation to discover how much feet can contribute to efficient action; they are an essential component in alert sitting, a sense of readiness and freedom to move in any direction, an ‘antidote’ to a state of inertia. By actively connecting with the floor, the feet can fire up an anti-gravity energy into the hip joints, pelvis and spine, providing a living ‘launchpad’ for poised sitting and readiness for action.

 

From the 2024 series for International Feldenkrais Awareness Week, "Transitions”

Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk

Spring Awakening - Sensing Ground Forces

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