The Feldenkrais Method is a somatic educational approach to re-educating your neuromuscular system. It helps you gain better control over the muscles of your body, allowing you to move with greater ease, comfort, and efficiency. By utilizing the brain’s ability to rewire itself (neuroplasticity), the method provides long-term benefits, such as improved posture, increased strength, and enhanced flexibility.

Feldenkrais offers a way of moving into asana in a different way. Focusing on our sensations allowing you to free your movements from your expectations and preconceptions.

WHAT IS THE WORKSHOP ABOUT: Freeing the ribs for easier everyday movement and asana.

The ribs are part of ourselves that evolved many thousands of years ago when evolutionarily, we were fish. Whilst they have since evolved to be a very important part of breathing, ribs are primarily made for movement and locomotion. When we don’t include them in our thinking, we often strain or overuse other areas of the back. This may incur unhelpful breathing patterns, without our awareness. 

Feldenkrais focuses the mind. Focusing the mind quietens the mind. A quiet mind, can more easily let go of assumed assumptions about personal ability or disability no matter the level of your physicality. 

Finding ways into a pose, moving without straining is a challenge many beginners can recognise, as well as those further in their yoga or physical activity. Therefor, we’ll be looking at ways of reducing strain, in order to ease into positions through the day.

This Feldenkrais workshop will look at transitions: how do you move between postures or patterns? Which areas of yourself do you overuse, whilst underutilizing other parts? If we can’t feel something, we don’t have the choice to change it. The Feldenkrais Method helps you to improve your awareness of not only what you’re doing, but how you’re doing it. 

The workshop will also be focussing on finding greater awareness of your ribs and spine in this, as well as learning to include your whole self in the picture.  Learning greater body awareness can help you feel what you’re moving in more detail. Feldenkrais offers an opportunity to be more present, use more of ourselves, whilst doing less. 

Feldenkrais workshop will help you  learn new and more efficient ways to use your muscles. You can make long term changes to your body, or should I say to your ‘Soma’ (your body experienced from within).

Key Benefits:

• Improve your posture and alignment

• Relieve tension and discomfort

• Enhance flexibility and strength

• Increase ease and fluidity in your everyday movement

• Rethink habitual postural habits to enhance skilled practitioner for example those in the; the arts, sports persons, martial arts practitioners, gardeners and craft persons etc