This week marks the end of the practical part and extra time for my research study: Feldenkrais in Practice. 188 people filled in the first questionnaire, and I’m just waiting on the last few to fill in the final questionnaire, to analyse the results. Meeting you where you are In Feldenkrais we try to meet people where … More Coming up to stand
How do you unpick your habits? You have to feel them, become aware of them, and then you can do something about those that no longer serve you. Just as we change out clothes when they don’t fit, or they’re unreparable. Try it yourself. Make a thumbs up. Line up one side of the thumb with … More Coming up to Stand
Babies usually learn to walk around 12 months. Some earlier, and some later of course, there’s a variation in what we find easy as babies as much as later on. Walking isn’t something that has to be taught: we have an instinct towards it. But we do have to have the right ingredients in place … More Coming up to stand
When we first learn to come up to sit as babies, there’s an enormous amount of calibration that goes on. We don’t think about it once we’ve been upright for a while. Each developmental stage is fascinating in the way it prepares the way for the next. The very first movements of pressing and pushing … More Developmental Movements – part 2
When we’re babies, we spend a lot of time in the beginning on the floor. It looks like you’re not doing anything, but of course nothing could be further from the truth. On the floor is where you start to feel what’s yourself, and what’s the envirnoment around you. And we need to be able … More Developmental Movements
The end of the year is often a time to recalibrate, and make plans for the next. It can be useful to have some questions to focus thinking. I’ve put together a couple for you. What went well (2025) 1. Which moments of 2025 are you most proud of? 2. When things went better than … More Happy New Year
I’ve always loved owls. And the way they can swivel their head to see behind them in a moment. It would be very useful in lots of scenarios! As you probably know, an owl can turn its head 180 degrees because of the double jointed neck. And we don’t have one of those, which is sad. … More Would you like to have the turning power of an owl?
So often I hear people talking about muscle memory as if it’s a thing. Something where the muscles remember movements, and pathways, or levels of contraction. Muscle memory is a myth. It’s simply not true. There is no such thing as muscle memory. If it were people who had accidents and suffered injury to the … More The myth of muscle memory
Do you think of your neck as a separate, or as part of your whole spine? This week’s lesson is looking again at how you might stick out your neck, but from a different angle! We’ll be doing the lesson in sitting. The position change means you’ll explore different options of movement, gravity, and sensation. Your … More How Long is Your Neck?
It’s a phrase that has many meanings, of course, but I was thinking in the literal sense. Often when we spend a lot of time on computers, screens, or simply sightreading or reading, we take our head forwards in space, like a turtle. But it’s not designed to stay there! Our head is optimal when … More Are you sticking your neck out?
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