Ruth started her career in dance. Like many dancers her first Feldenkrais lesson was met with this doesn’t do anything, believing you have to push work hard and get sore for movement training to be ‘working’. After discovering Yoga and more gentle ways to move, she natural gravitted back to Feldenkrais. Enjoy our conversation about dance, Yoga and birthing.
Ruth Polden BIo
Ruth is passionate about helping people move with comfort, ease and confidence. To feel happy and at home in themselves and function better in what they love to do. She is a "life learner" in pursuit of wonderment. A Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and yoga teacher. Ruth is Co Director of the YogaBirth Teacher Training, and also on the faculty of the London Yoga Teacher Training Course (LYTTC). In addition to her private practice in UK and online, Ruth devotes much of her time, training and mentoring yoga teachers of the future.
Ruth is also an Active Birth teacher. She is a former dancer / choreographer and first came to yoga, other somatic practices, and ultimately to Feldenkrais, through a quest to know herself better and to explore sustainability in movement.
Her mission: to live life with curiosity, dignity and kindness and to help others to do the same.
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