Theme descriptions for all weekly classes

“STANDING TALL!”
- Mondays 7.30-8. 30pm (UK)
ONLINE
- Tuesdays 7.45 - 8.45pm at The Haelan Centre, London, N8

“PUSH PULL REACH”
Wednesdays 10-11am (UK)
ONLINE

“TRANSITIONS”
Fridays: 1.30-2.30pm
The Crouch End Fitness Centre, London N8

Finding your full length is a challenge for all of us whoever we are, at almost any age. Our tall narrow structure is easily shortened by the life habits we learn from sitting, using computers or phones, and from coping with the vicissitudes of life.
We will explore our own fundamental movement patterns and find ways of reducing unneccessary tension, re-balancing muscular effort, finding skeletal support and enabling our potential length in many directions and positions, without resorting to the more limited gains of stretching.

Autumn 2025

A good opportunity to explore the ease and mobility of your shoulders, as well as the use of your whole self from the ground up to your eyes, to improve the functional range, grace and power of your arm. We will travel from the ground to your finger tips and vice versa.

How we move from one place, one position, one action to another. Isn’t that the really important bit?
We can be so focussed on achieving a squat or posture – or just standing up – that how we get there and back – how we move – is lost. In the fundamentals of getting up from, or down to, a chair, a bed, the floor; stepping from one foot to another, changing direction, and so on, lie all the deep patterns of moving through the world that we have learnt and developed. Patterns that involve the skills of balance, agility, efficiency, quality; the wear we might put on our joints or how we limit the use our eyes.
This is a huge, rich area for exploring from small slow detail to bigger more dynamic. As ever I will do my best to tailor it to the needs of those who come.

These on-going weekly classes are stand-alone so that you can drop-in as you wish and start in any week. If you are able to come regularly you will get a more complete picture. All the themes overlap and interweave, so coming on different days works too.