Feldenkrais in London

with Victoria Worsley (Feldenkrais Guild UK)

Ground-breaking movement and awareness classes and gentle individual hands-on sessions to enable you to do what you want in life more easily.

Improved range & efficiency of movement. More flexibility, fluidity & ease in all you do.
More effective & satisfying performance in sports, martial arts, dance, music & acting.
Easier, fuller breathing
Greater sense of relaxation & well-being. Improved sleep. Increased vitality.

The Feldenkrais method can also be helpful to those experiencing migraine, CFS, neurological disorders, stroke, RSI, the results of injury (or childbirth!), chronic pain, the somatic aspects of emotional trauma.

"to make the impossible possible, the possible easy and the easy pleasurable"
MOSHE FELDENKRAIS

STOP PRESS!

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Posted on May 24, 2016 by Victoria

FRI CLASS: Please note the YMCA Fitness Centre class on fridays at 12.30 is moving temporarily (till the Summer break at end July) to THE YMCA HARRINGAY CLUB, 50 Tottenham Lane, Crouch End, N8 7EE (opposite hornsey train station and jewsons). It wil stilll be at 12,30 on fridays. This is because of the noise of the refurbishment at the YMCA Fitness Centre. apologies for inconvenience!

My book, ‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ is out! You can order it at a discount direct from the publishers here. There are workshops at the Actors Centre based on the book – next one on 4th June.

See the schedule page for Spring/Summer Workshops for all !

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BLACK BELT: cross-motivation

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Posted on December 8, 2016 by Victoria

It takes quite some commitment to be knocking on the door of shodan (1^st degree black belt). And as the test approaches I find I am STILL asking myself why, as a rather small 50 year-old woman – and especially as a Feldenkrais Teacher – I find myself so committed to a hard martial art as challenging as Goju Ryu karate. I have seen enough people come and go and felt the difficulty of staying with it keenly enough to know that it does really mean something – if only about me!

“Don’t you think it might be time to gently let go of Karate now?” says my own beloved Feldenkrais Practitioner as I lie on his table bruised and exhausted from blacking out and apparently breaking my fall with my chin and mouth. Continue reading →

My new book for actors is out

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Posted on December 7, 2016 by Victoria

My book, ‘Feldenkrais for Actors, How To Do Less and Discover More” is finally out.

I have written a couple of blogs for other sites about how it came to be written and what the book is about, so here are the links to those two posts: Nick Hern Books, The Actors Centre Continue reading →

‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ – my book is out

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Posted on November 22, 2016 by Victoria

My book ‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ or ‘How To Do Less and Discover More‘ published by Nick Hern books book-cover is out now. The Actors Centre, where i am doing some workshops based on it (see schedule page) asked me to write a blog for them, so I did. I thought I would post it here too:

To explain how The Feldenkrais Method^© helps actors is a big job. Indeed, it’s just taken me a whole book – and even that’s just an introduction as it opens up an enormous area of study. Presence, posture, voice, breath, spontaneity, sensitivity, versatility, flexibility are all addressed by this very profound and fundamental method. Let’s just take one corner of it here:

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Feldenkrais – a first generation neuroplastician

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Posted on June 7, 2016 by Victoria

You may be familiar with best-selling neuroscience writer, Norman Doidge’s recent book ‘The Brain’s Way of Healing’ with 2 chapters on Feldenkrais in it, but if not here he is talking about the man, his genius and his Method.

FELDENKRAIS + SUSTAINABLE TRAINING

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Posted on December 10, 2015 by Victoria

I have been meaning to write something about my experience of sustainable training and working with injury for some time, as working with this has taught me a great deal about the Feldenkrais Method. I came out of physical theatre aged 40 and since then I have been supplementing my feldenkrais practice with barefoot running and, for the last 8 years, a demanding form of traditional Okinawan karate. At my age especially I have had to pay a lot of attention not to end up injured and out of both activities quite quickly and it is important for many of my clients too. Continue reading →

Teaching Feldenkrais in Vocational Drama Schools

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Posted on September 24, 2015 by Victoria

This was my (uncut!) talk at the ‘(Re)storing Performance’ seminar on Feldenkrais for Performance, organised by Thomas Kampe at Bath Spa University back in June. Obviously I didn’t get to say all this in the time so here it is uncut. I have many more thoughts to share about Feldenkrais for actors and acting in the book I am writing (due out in the spring): this is a little piece and is specifically about teaching in drama schools. The audience consisted mostly of teachers of either Feldenkrais, dance or performance, some professors, some performers and even the odd student! Its quite long for a blog post and has no pictures, so its really for the hard core! Continue reading →

Getting Closer to Moshe Feldenkrais

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Posted on October 23, 2014 by Victoria

A wonderful resource. Many very well known practitioners of the Feldenkrais Method in this video, some of whom talk about Moshe and their experiences of him on a celebratory tour of the places he lived and worked in Tel Aviv. Very touching little film and a way of feeling a little closer to the man for those of us who sadly didn’t meet him. I discovered the method in 1984 – the year he died. thanks to the makers of this for making it available to us all. click on title below:

A Journey through Tel Aviv