This week I was playing a concert in Totnes, close to where I grew up as a child. I was fortunate to play in a wealth of different youth music groups and ensembles. It led me to decide to become a musician. When we start as children, we don’t know what a profession looks like, … More Seeing the Whole Picture
Over the Summer I was teaching on the Professional Feldenkrais Training, in London, (at the moment there are two in the UK). One of the students has a 6 month old. I offered to play him with for parts of the day, so the Mum could join in the lessons. It wasn’t completely altruistic. I practiced … More Early Starts
Flexible minds The idea of a lesson is not just to move ourselves, or be more flexible physically, but to have a different experience of yourself at the end of a lesson.Feldenkrais said “I don’t want flexible bodies, I want flexible minds”. The two go hand in hand. After all, our body and mind are … More Flexible Minds
Life long learning Last week, I was teaching on the Feldenkrais Training, London 5, which has just started. (There’s still time to sign up if you’d like to be a Feldenkrais Method teacher. Or if you would like to dive into the work in more detail!) It’s always great to be there. It’s like practising … More And rest
Today I went to a klezmer jam. A folk session of Jewish folk music. It’s by ear, so there’s no music. Which isn’t my usual way of doing things. But it had felt like a while since I’d enjoyed playing with others just for fun, so I put my violin on my back and pootled off. … More Strategies for Learning
This week I’m in Palermo, Sicily. I came to do part of my child development course. Whilst I was here wanted to see a little of the city. Yesterday we went to the Catacombs of the Capuchin Monks. In Sicily in the 18th-20th centuries mummification became a big thing. People mummified their family members after … More Ease with the Skeleton
This year I’m doing some additional training looking at the early years of child development. In order to inform my work with adults and children. It’s interesting how stages missed out in early childhood show up in our movement habits and even the way we look. One of my colleague’s children is at the moment … More Power of the Pelvis – Part 2
The Pelvis is your motor centre. And directly connected to the low back. A connection that is often missed out in our picture of the back. Which results in trying to rethink back problems without including the pelvis. Something that is unlikely to be successful for anyone. Even in the first weeks of life, a … More Power of the Pelvis
If you can’t feel where your hip joints are, you can’t organise them well. We need to be able to locate to control. It’s why body mapping is part of what we improve in every Feldenkrais lesson. What distinguishes Feldenkrais from other methods is the use of movement to help you sense yourself in movement. … More Finding the hip joints
I like to think that Moshe Feldenkrais would be pleased that the Feldenkrais Method is reaching further and further around the globe, 50 years after his passing. And that he would be delighted to know that there’s an International Feldenkrais Federation set up to facilitate communication and discussion between all the national Guilds in the … More Back from the International Feldenkrais Federation
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