Ground-breaking movement and awareness classes and gentle individual hands-on sessions to enable you to do what you want in life more easily.
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
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Flexibilty of mind as well as body, spontaneity rather than compulsiveness, adaptability rather than rigidity are the hall marks of the Feldenkrais Method and we need those skills now more than ever. Here’s hoping for a positive 2020.
ALL CLASSES AND ONE-TO-ONES START AGAIN from Friday 3rd January 2020 This term classes are around the themes of sitting on the ground and getting to the ground in different ways (tuesdays) and support for/freedom of the head (thurs/fridays)
Spring/Summer 2020 workshopsupschedule page
This seasons’s Dharma Shala workshops fit together well as a series if you can do all of them, but are designed as stand alone workshops. In these difficult days it feels important to find our support from the ground, walk tall, breathe deeply and be reminded of our ability to explore and play which are the themes of these workshops. See also for City Lit and Actors Centre etc…
Order your copy of my book ‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ at a discount direct from the publishers here.
Over 12 years of teaching the Feldenkrais Method I have come to realise how much the ability to breathe and move freely and not feel the need to push, strain, brace or pull oneself together tightly depends significantly on our fundamental sense of safety. Whether it is through many little experiences, a persistent condition, injury or major trauma, many of us discover at some point that we are vulnerable. Continue reading “A Sense of Safety (1) – a short article written for the Feldenkrais Guild Newsletter, March 2019”
HOW DID YOU LEARN TO MOVE?
PART 3: FLOOR TO STANDING: IMPROVING AGILITY
Feldenkrais Method workshop with Victoria Worsley
Saturday 28th April 10.30-4.30, £70/60conc
Dharma Shala, 92-94 Drummond Street, Euston, London NW1 2HN
Important: you don’t have to have done the previous workshops in the series – Each of these three workshops is valuable on its own. This is a purely practical and experiential exploration, using Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons.
Who is this workshop for?
Anyone from any walk of life of any age wanting to improve their own comfort, ease and agility.
An amateur or professional athlete, martial artist, free runner, dancer, acrobat, movement or sports coach interested in the fundamentals for and development of agility
A new Mum or Dad curious about their child’s early learning or a professional working with children’s movement and development
It takes quite some commitment to be knocking on the door of shodan (1st 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 “BLACK BELT: cross-motivation”
My book ‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ or ‘How To Do Less and Discover More‘ published by Nick Hern books 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:
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.
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 “FELDENKRAIS + SUSTAINABLE TRAINING”
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