Personalised One-to-one sessions in London and Online
10 minutes walk from Kings Cross St Pancras station, 7 minutes from Russell Square.
Tailored for you
One to one sessions are built around you, your specific needs and requests.
Unlike a group class, every lesson is tailored to what you want to explore. We can spend time on a particular difficulty, explore a question in depth, or follow an unexpected discovery.
We explore together. You bring your experience of yourself; I bring my expertise in seeing patterns and possibilities that are often hidden from view. We’re not looking for a sticking plaster, but meaningful change.
When you move and feel better, we have more space for positivity, and room to make better choices. You’ll move more easily towards what you want in your life.
Why Choose an Individual Lesson?
People come for many different reasons.
Individual lessons are particularly valuable when you’re dealing with a more complex problem, long-standing habits, pain, or when you’d benefit from more individual attention than a group class can provide.
You may be looking to reduce pain, stiffness or tension, help with hypermobility, or repetitive strain injuries, recover from injury or surgery, improve your posture or balance, or address discomfort from long hours at a computer.
Maybe you’re looking to age as gracefully as possible: get down to the floor to play with your grandchildren, and continue doing the things you enjoy for as long as possible.
Sometimes there’s nothing wrong at all, rather you want to hone something you’re already good at, whether music, dance, or another activity.
Individual lessons can also be valuable support for people living with neurological conditions such as stroke, cerebral palsy, Parkinsons or multiple sclerosis. Or simply reduce anxiety, feel calmer, and develop better resources for coping with the stresses and strains of daily life.
Many people discover not only greater ease and comfort, but a deeper confidence in their potential to improve and meet change.
What happens in an individual Lesson?
We’ll begin with what brings you here. There won’t be any need to remove your clothing, and I may ask you to stand, walk or perform a familiar movement so we can observe together what’s easy, what’s difficult, and what you may not have noticed before.
Rather than solely focusing on the place where the problem shows up, I’m interested in the underlying patterns that shape how you sense and move yourself. Often that means starting with what is working well, where your skeleton is free to move, not fixating on the problem area.
For example, someone may come with neck pain. Of course we’ll look at the neck, but we may discover that the chest, ribs or spine aren’t fully participating in the movement. When more of the body becomes available to support the action, the neck no longer has to do all the work.
Most of a hands-on lesson is taught through touch. The touch and movements I use are designed to help you sense the relationships between the different parts of yourself. You’ll start to feel where you can connect parts that aren’t working together.
I use my expertise to help you recognise movement habits that may be contributing to pain or difficulty, and learn new, more useful ways of moving.
Clients mostly leave feeling less pain, and more fluidity in the way they move, and a sense of being connected and more joined up.
Hands On Lessons
The majority of a hands-on lesson is taught through gentle touch.
We start by finding out more about you and why you’ve come. From the first moments of touch, my aim is to create a sense of safety and comfort for you. When you feel safe, it’s easier to listen, learn and take on new possibilities.
One thing that makes Feldenkrais unique is that we start from where you are. Rather than fixing, we work with your system, and work with what’s already available. Which very often allows change to happen without force.
Many clients are surprised how much difference seemingly gentle movements can make.
As more of you becomes involved in the movement, Surprisingly, the fastest route to solving a problem is often not to focus on where the problem is creating the pain signal. by building on what’s available, rather than forcing what’s difficult, we’ll work with your system, not against it to create change.
Online Lessons
If you’re learning with me remotely, we’ll work together in a combination of guided movement, and directed self-touch.
These sessions are be remarkably effective. And allow you to work with me, no matter how far away you are. After each session, you’ll receive a video/audio recording of the session, so you can continue exploring and learning between lessons.
All Sessions last an hour. Please wear warm, loose clothes that allows easy movement.
If you’d like to discuss whether individual lessons are right for you, I’d be pleased to talk
What could you get out of Feldenkrais? And what is it like to work with me? Here’s one of my clients: Caroline who’s a musician, talking about it below.
More experiences of working with me:
Thank you SO MUCH for yesterday’s extraordinary session. For some reason I hadn’t expected it to be so hands-on, and it was beyond anything I could have imagined.
Not just the immediate differences of feeling connected and BREATHING deeply (for what feels like the first time), but also things I’m noticing today. I’ve just got home after a walk through the park near my house, and I’m aware of my upper half moving and “joining in” with the rest of my body, not in an efforting way but just because it can.
My lungs seem able to take in so much more air, as if they’ve been half full for years. I can almost hear my whole chest rejoicing. I slept incredibly well last night, and, coincidence or not, didn’t wake up coughing like I usually do. Katherine, London.
I just wanted to say a big thank you for all the fantastic sessions; what a wonderful teacher you are! They have made a big difference to how I feel, not just when playing but generally. I have done yoga, breathwork and meditation for years, but this new way of moving, feeling and processing has been a wonderful addition to my toolkit. Ruth.
I came to Emma with Vestibular Neuritis, a debilitating problem of the inner ear. Once starting work with Emma I immediately felt the benefits. It became the only thing that made me feel more “human” and led the road to my recovery. I still experience symptoms such as vertigo and and tiredness but I am in a very different place to a year ago.
Feldenkrais exercises are very challenging for me because I tend to go through the world at great speed without much concern for my body. Emma was infinitely patient and helped me slow myself down with gentle reminders and instructions to keep the movements small. It is extraordinary to me that by focusing awareness on tiny movements I can change my state of consciousness so radically.
Feldenkrais is hard to explain to others. To watch someone do the exercises you wouldn’t believe the wholeness of the experience. I really think you have to try it feel the benefits. Catherine, Dublin.
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