Let’s take a reset; slow down, lie on the floor, and get basic. Let’s reconnect with what’s primary: our selves, our inherent curiosity, and our ability to move towards ease. At the heart of the Feldenkrais method is the search for dynamic comfort and the persistent belief that part of being alive is remembering that we can feel good.

 

In this three-part series we'll slow down, simplify, and rediscover the foundational/primary/basic movements that organize how we stand, sit, breathe, and move through our days. Through Feldenkrais Awareness-Through-Movement lessons, we'll peel back layers of habitual effort and unnecessary tension to find what's underneath: the efficiency, support, and potential to feel better that are available to us when we slow down and tune in.

 

Each workshop is complete in itself, yet together they form a natural progression through the primary movements of our articulate spines: bending forward and back, bending to the sides, and turning. I’d love to have you join for all three; one or two is great too!

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November 2

Flexion & Extension

The primary and secondary movements of the spine

We begin at the beginning with the most basic movement available to us: the spine lengthening and softening, opening and gathering. In this first workshop we'll explore how flexion and extension organize not just the back, but the whole self. 

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December 7

Side Bending

Finding length, balance, and the pleasure of leaning

The second workshop takes us sideways into the lateral dimension that we so often overlook. Side bending reveals how we distribute weight, how one side of us relates to the other, and how reaching toward something (or someone) can be an act of the whole body rather than just the arm. You may be surprised how much space opens up when you learn to lean well.

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January 4

Rotation & Twisting

The spine's most sophisticated and expressive movement

We close the series with turning. With movements that allow us to scan our world, follow our curiosity, and bring ourselves fully into contact with what's around us. We'll explore how twisting through the whole self, rather than forcing it from one place, returns us to a sense of ease and aliveness that is, in the end, what this whole series has been about.