Shoulder problems are one of the common reasons people come to see me. The shoulder joint is a work of art. It’s fixed to the skeleton via the collar bones at the front. And has a large range of fascia and muscles attaching it at the back, sides and front. It’s massive range of movement … More Exploring the Shoulders
One of my colleagues was collecting ideas as to why people don’t like Feldenkrais. One cropped up quite a bit, which I found particularly interesting. “Feldenkrais is too slow”. I know what they mean. I started practising Feldenkrais long before becoming a teacher. There were days where I found it hard to concentrate, hard to … More Slow learning
A question I’m often asked, is why should I do Feldenkrais? Why is it useful? To start to answer that, let’s start with another question. What is health for you? Our modern dictionary definition labels it “the absence of disease”. Not very positive, or heart warming! Originally, the word healing itself comes from the old … More What is health for you?
This is the question, which when I heard Moshe Feldenkrais asking it, made me realise he was on another level. That his intellect was far above the vast majority of people. The answer is no, of course. But who stops to ask the question? When do we start to see light in the womb? It’s … More If there was no light, would we have eyes?
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
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
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
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