Upcoming Feldenkrais Workshops:
Shona's Feldenkrais Classes:
Location: |
Day / Time: |
Russel Lea: Yoga Ruka - 289 Lyons Rd CLICK HERE TO BOOK |
Monday 9.45am (Moving Meditation) - 45mins Friday 9.45am (Move Free Flow) - 1hr |
Hunters Hill: Hunters Hill Croquet Club - 1 Matthew St MESSAGE Shona or just turn up! |
Monday 7pm - 1hr |
Alexandria: Urban Soul - 105 Belmont St CLICK HERE TO BOOK |
Friday 12.30pm - 1hr Sunday 6.30pm - 1hr |
Introductory offers:
- Yoga Ruka in Russell Lea offers 2 weeks of unlimited classes for $39
- You can come to your first 3 classes at Hunters Hill Croquet Club for $50
- Urban Soul in Alexandria offers a month of unlimited classes for $49
All locations offer drop-in rates or the option to save by purchasing a pass / membership.
At Urban Soul in Alexandria, we focus on a particular theme for 6 weeks. The current theme is 'Understanding Arm Connections' Modern lifestyles means our arms are often under-utilized; we don't use our arms for weight bearing or take them through their full range of motion. Come understand how your arms connect to the rest of you for more support / strength.
Fri 04/10/19 & Sun 06/10/19 – a self-hug sequence!
Fri 11/10/19 & Sun 13/10/19 – directions of your shoulders
Fri 18/10/19 & Sun 20/10/19 – softening ribs (flexible foundations of your shoulders)
Fri 25/10/19 & Sun 27/10/19 – your ribs in reaching & rolling
Fri 01/11/19 & Sun 03/10/19 – circling arms
Fri 08/11/19 & Sun 10/11/19 – candelabra arms
Here's a bit about my classes at Yoga Ruka in Russell Lea:
Moving Meditation - This class brings the mindfulness of mediation to how you move, feel and function. It’s about better understanding your own unique movement habits/patterns – identifying what you do differently on the left and the right. Do you recognize the cues that tell you it’s time to rest or that an action might create strain before it’s too late? These are the sorts of sensory signals that we learn to become perceptive to. I guide your attention to become aware of what’s happening inside as you move - how moving one area (like your foot) creates a subtle movement further afield (up your leg into your hip). Being able to listen to the sensations in your body is what allows you to look after yourself.
Move Free Flow - This class is a playful, guided exploration in how movement connects throughout your whole body. We experiment with the details of HOW you do an action, looking for what yields more ease and efficiency to reduce the amount of effort involved in moving. It’s based on principles from the Feldenkrais Method; we hone finesse and flow by first exploring individual elements of a movement pattern slowly, before co-ordinating them together to experience motion that is integrated - supported and connected throughout your structure. Finding skeletal connections leaves your muscles free to move and you feel taller, lighter, decompressed and freer.
I choose what lessons I teach in Hunters Hill according to what I observe in how my students move the week before.
Being able to influence how you feel is pretty empowering. In an Awareness Through Movement class you learn to listen to the sensory feedback signals of your body. You explore new ways of moving and discover how subtle details like where you place your feet can make a big difference in how connected and supported movement feels throughout your system.
Awareness Through Movement is a guided process of learning and discovery. Exploring new ways of moving has a noticeable influence in how you feel different afterwards. It develops your balance, co-ordination and spatial awareness. Aches and pains in particular areas often settle down and disappear as you learn to distribute movement throughout your whole body so that you’re not straining individual joints.
Awareness Through Movement is a guided process of learning and discovery. Exploring new ways of moving has a noticeable influence in how you feel different afterwards. It develops your balance, co-ordination and spatial awareness. Aches and pains in particular areas often settle down and disappear as you learn to distribute movement throughout your whole body so that you’re not straining individual joints.
Think mindfulness and engaging curiosity applied to movement.
Awareness Through Movement is you getting to know yourself better.
It’s fun, it’s playful and you’re always learning something new.
Awareness Through Movement is you getting to know yourself better.
It’s fun, it’s playful and you’re always learning something new.
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Feldenkrais has opened up a whole new world of the inner most workings of my body at the skeletal level.
It has led to my discovery of new ways of executing body movements in a more relaxed and fluid manner that can be transferred to my everyday pursuits and complements and enhances other physical pursuits such as sport or dance.
Its relaxed and meditative focus also helps to restore a sense of balance and emotional well being.
Jael Wolk PhD -Public Health and Community Medicine