We’re continuing our theme of sensing the skeleton this week, and will be looking at releasing the neck and shoulders. It’s a topic close to my heart, and that in a strange way started me on this journey towards Feldenkrais teaching. When I lived in Holland, I had exhaustion from IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). After … More Finding ease through the skeleton
It’s Moshe Feldenkrais’ birthday week, and International Feldenkrais Week! How many candles can you blow out? Moshe talked and wrote a lot around breathing and the breath. Let me share one thing to notice around the breath, if you’re teaching, but also if you’re talking to someone with a different point of view. If someone … More Breathing for Calm
When I was little, I used to regularly visit London with my Mum to go to Great Ormond Street Hospital. I was history obsessed from a very early age, so after the hospital visit, if we had time, we would go to the British Museum. To do something nice after something less pleasant. We usually went to … More Finding ease
A few weeks ago, I did some lessons around the pelvis. And I asked everyone (probably around 30-40 people) where their hip joints were. Very few people knew. Many people pointed to to the top of the pelvis at the sides (the ischium) and other people pointed lower down, in various places. And it’s not … More The Skeletal Path
As part of my work as a Feldenkrais practitioner, I see one to one clients, for more bespoke help. One of whom came to see me to see if I could help with his back pain. He’s a graphic artist, and commissions can mean, like many of us who work digitally, he spends a lot of … More Connecting the dots
Last weekend, I came down with tonsilitis whilst away performing in Switzerland. Which I haven’t had in decades. So it took me a while to recognise the symptoms. And thank goodness for modern medicine, which enabled me to still perform, if dosed up to the eyeballs. And for the antibiotics I picked up on the … More Different Faces
This weekend I had a concert in Lichfield. It isn’t well connected in the late evening for public transport. It’s not alone of course. So I travelled by car, with a colleague. It took 2 1/2 hours to get there, and 3 to get home, with detours for roadworks, and a few wrong turns. Habits … More and pause…
Why do Feldenkrais? Every time you move, with attention, you’re improving your awareness. You’re improving your connections between body and brain. Part of the problem for all of us is that we don’t sense enough of ourselves. We don’t feel the relationships between all the parts. In each lesson I shine a spotlight on a … More Heads, Shoulders, Toes, Nervous System…
“Heads shoulders, Knees and Toes” Part of a song we learn as children. Connecting all the parts of our skeleton with action. We spend the first months, years, learning to connect and own different parts of ourselves. In order to make complex movements such as crawling, walking or talking. As we socialise, and move towards … More Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes…
I spent half term in my role as a teacher on the Professional Feldenkrais training programme in London. It’s a four year course to qualify as a teacher, in an experiential learning environment. I get to teach, but also learn from other more experienced practitioners. One of whom as she worked asked the student if he’d … More Re-adapting, resetting old habits…
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