Shows
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownAndrew Gibbons enthuses rigour …Passionate about the pedagogy of delivering Feldenkrais to an open audience, Andrew Gibbons is intent on refining his craft. Andrew sees the potential for using Feldenkrais as a practice to level up your biological fitness to perform in all areas of your life. In introducing his explicit style of investigation into finding efficiency in movement quality, Andrew is not shy of designing lessons offering challenge to those willing to “engage” in the rigour of a learning experience. Far from just having an “experience” in a lesson, or even enjoyment in learning experientially, Andrew brings a desire as a teacher to provi...
2022-12-011h 13
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownMargaret Mayo advocates the power of agency…People discovering how to help themselves is Margaret Mayo’s passion. And for over 35 years she has helped people find more of themselves through the powerful medium of Awareness Through Movement classes. Even after all this time Margaret can’t believe how simple Feldenkrais concepts such as knowing where your hip joints are can have such a profound effect. This lively discussion weaves insights about teaching Awareness Through Movement classes with wisdoms for ATM participants. For Feldenkrais Practitioners Margaret shares how she prepares her lessons, the importance of language and how to make lessons accessible. For all of us who do...
2022-10-2748 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownAnna Yen evokes playfulness, creativity and presence…Anna Yen, a highly trained and well accomplished performer, theatre producer and Feldenkrais Practitioner shares her passion for play, presence and rhythm.
Play she enthuses shows us the wonder of possibilities and the delight of learning while highlighting our blind spots. Her passion for play invites us to experiment in Awareness Through Movement classes. Using light attention we can discover different qualities of movement, interact more powerfully between internal and external, to become more present. Anna’s mentor, Monika Pagneux, one of Europe's leading exponents of movement in contemporary theatre, who integrates Feldenkrais into theatre schools terms th...
2022-09-3051 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownJenni Evans honours the power of our innate intelligence…Jenni Evans reminds us that there is always possibility for improvement. Our body is where we live but we are not just our bodies. We are our life experiences, contexts, communities, relationships and more. By bringing us back to the fundamentals of ‘what is Feldenkrais’, Jenni assists newcomers and seasoned veterans to understand the expansiveness and potency of the Feldenkrais Method.
Offering specific examples and real-life stories to demystify the Feldenkrais Method, Jenni helps us to realise that it is in patiently listening to and honouring our ‘self’ as a whole system that we learn to allow and trus...
2022-08-3152 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownConnor Voss captures self-expression beyond movement exploration and dance…Connor Voss brings both a personal and wide lens view of how the Feldenkrais Method® can help everyone potentiate their own authentic self-expression, at whatever level or in whatever context we experience ourselves dancing. He invites us to take a fresh and fluid look at how we experience ourselves in the world by interweaving intersections from his deep loves of movement, modern experimental and improvisational dance, practice of Feldenkrais, and social activism. Connor also gives great advice for practitioners on building working relationships with community to make Feldenkrais accessible to more people.
Connor finds language to disentangle t...
2022-07-2854 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownIrene Lyon educates, soothes and excites our nervous system…Irene Lyon, nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives. After graduating as a Feldenkrais Practitioner Irene went deeper into the somatic world, studying the work of Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing and Kathy Kain's Somatic Practice. Using this unique blend of understanding, Irene assists people to address stored trauma and build their own capacity.
Through this “capacity building” Irene offers ways Feldenkrais enthusiasts and Practitioners can use ‘Trauma Aware’ practices to create a safer more inclusive Awareness Through Mo...
2022-06-301h 15
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownDavid Zemach-Bersin conveys hope for human potential…David Zemach-Bersin gives a deeply philosophical, beautifully paced and moving account of his personal relationship with the work of Moshe Feldenkrais. Simultaneously unravelling some of the ingenious logic and acknowledging the art form of the Feldenkrais Method, David uses an example of a pivotal Awareness Through Movement lesson and underscores some of the finer fundamentals of Functional Integration. In his desire to understand the rewards of Moshe Feldenkrais’ insight, intelligence and teaching methods, David reflects on his years of observing Moshe with awe for the unending optimism this extraordinary man had for the potential for humans to change, to imp...
2022-05-261h 10
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownMolly Tipping on anxiety, the nervous system and emotional maturation……Molly Tipping specialises in working with people experiencing anxiety and associated issues. In this lively conversation Molly shares her wisdom interlaced with Dr Moshe Feldenkrais’ extensive references to anxiety. She takes us on a fascinating journey describing the repertoire of Nervous System responses available during our ‘apprenticeship’ to mature adulthood. Molly normalises our Autonomic Nervous System responses of fight, flight, freeze and describes ways to help clients gain awareness and alter their internal environment to ‘show up’ in ways they need or want to in their varied daily contexts.
Molly takes the same lens Moshe Feldenkrais used to underst...
2022-04-271h 04
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownDr. Susan Hillier showcases research into the neuroscience of body awareness…As Professor in Neuroscience and Rehabilitation at the University of South Australia, Dr. Susan Hillier explains the term “neuroplasticity” and how directly experiencing the Feldenkrais Method parallels evidence from neuroscience. Susan discusses current scientific research in how the role of body awareness and the impact of training sensation, perception and awareness can re-establish meaningful function for the whole person after stroke and other movement disorders.
Sharing her personal journey into the Feldenkrais Method, Susan tells of discovering profound personal change along the way to becoming an Educational Director of the Feldenkrais Training Program in Australia. She derives enjo...
2022-03-2957 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownMia Segal on the essence and roots of Moshe Feldenkrais’ work…Mia Segal was Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ first observer, protégé and trusted collaborator in perpetuating his masterful work. Mia is joined by her daughter Leora Gaster in recounting moments from their close personal relationship and home life with Moshe. This has afforded them unique insight and perception into the spirit of Moshe's artful attitude and approach to improving human ability. Mia and Leora speak passionately of the importance of the work for teaching responsibility and autonomy to children, its ground in Judo principles and the art of gentleness. Mia, together with her daughter Leora, still loves actively teaching and shari...
2022-02-2544 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownPaul Watt on nervous system self-regulation and managing stress...As a trauma-informed integrative physiotherapist, Paul Watt offers Feldenkrais and Tension Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) alongside physiotherapy. He accompanies clients of all ages on often difficult journeys of exploration towards harmony, balance and self-love to come "home" to themselves.
Paul's discussion of TRE offers great parallels and insights into a deeper understanding of Feldenkrais as well as how TRE can be taught as a self-educative technique used to complement Feldenkrais to unpack accumulated stress, unresolved narratives and chronic holding patterns. He recommends trying TRE in the process of continually re-orienting to our environment with kindness.
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2021-12-291h 14
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownDeborah Bowes evokes curiosity…..Deborah offers insightful expertise on chronic pain and pelvic floor health coupled with simplicity of process. Initially enticed by Moshe Feldenkrais’ theory of the mind and body connection, Deborah embarked on a personal journey of emotional and mind transformation. With more than 34 years as a revered Feldenkrais Practitioner and Trainer, Deborah has developed a unique style engaging people in a gentle, safe and pleasurable process of self discovery. An inquisitive scholar, Deborah has delved deeply into pelvic floor health and chronic pain research and has keenly refined a distinctive, highly effective style which has enhanced the quality of life of...
2021-11-2359 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownLeora Gaster gifts simple refinement of the mind-body connection...Leora Gaster brings Moshe Feldenkrais’ background to the foreground with a fresh sense of aliveness and gives colour to the creative environment she experienced growing up through the formative exploratory years of Moshe Feldenkrais' work with her mother, Mia Segal. It’s an uplifting account of the vibrant experimentation and cross-pollination of ideas with eminent thinkers influencing the human potential movement. Leora expands on how the synthesis of Moshe Feldenkrais’ work was based on questioning with respect - all the science and philosophy of the time.
Immersed in the influence, observations and teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais since childh...
2021-11-031h 05
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownLavinia Plonka integrates our Emotional Body ®...It’s not just about the body! Body language expert Lavinia Plonka brings recognition of the fullness of expression of our emotions into relationship with our body posture, gestures and breath using the lens of the Feldenkrais Method® with her signature Emotional Body® techniques. Lavinia has always been attracted to the expression of self through her love of movement and recognises the role her extensive creative life in mime, dance and theatre has played in her own conscious evolution. Integrating all the elements of her own deep humanistic quest towards self-actualization and creativity, Lavinia gives us a sense of embrac...
2021-10-0158 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownTara Eden - from Yoga to FeldenkraisTara Eden, Feldenkrais Practitioner, began her Somatic Movement Project as a child and continued her innate life journey as an observer and student of the human condition. She travelled an intense route of self-expression via the heat and power of yoga, striving to overcome frustration, anxieties and burnout – society’s common symptoms of chronic disconnection to self in a saturated life chasing improvement, betterment and existential change. Tara explains how we have tried to form and conform ourselves to not only yoga but society’s poses and postures without reference to the individual self.
Moving from the frenzi...
2021-08-271h 02
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownKim Sargent-Wishart expands our somatic experience…Kim Sargent-Wishart leads us on an exploration of somatics, inquiry and how we can find even deeper and more subtle ways of exploring our felt sense. Expanding on Moshe’s ideas of sensing the self through the nervous system and skeleton, Kim explains how sensing into any part of our anatomy gives us new insights and ways of being.
Kim is a Melbourne based Certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist. Originally from the United States, Kim has danced since childhood, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Dance with Hono...
2021-07-2959 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownTaro Iwamoto reaches further with Feldenkrais on YouTube…Taro Iwamoto meets people at exactly the point of understanding of their own movement or life challenges, responding and making connections with them via his YouTube channel “Feldenkrais with Taro Iwamoto”. He takes great pride in making simple, practical and useful YouTube videos using the Feldenkrais Method that speak to people of diverse ages and abilities. Taro has found a way to make an impact on how people connect with themselves to improve their own performance beyond the limitations they perceive, expanding individual human capability not just in the functional actions of everyday life, but in shifting ideals of perf...
2021-06-2451 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownMeet Nick Strauss-Klein, the creator and voice of The Feldenkrais Project...Nick Strauss-Klein is committed to unveiling the grand vision of the Feldenkrais Project of carefully collated online audio Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons for all of humanity. The Feldenkrais Project promotes at its core the actualisation of the Feldenkrais Method across the globe, in a form easily available, digestible, sharable and definitely durable. In amplifying the accessibility of these simple but deeply clarifying lessons, Nick is a beacon, orientating us to the fundamentals of familiarising our ‘selves’ with the guiding principles and structures of Feldenkrais.
Offered free, this novel model of the Feldenkrais Project has grown to be fu...
2021-05-2954 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownRussell and Linda Delman awaken our Embodied Life™️ potential…Russell and Linda Delman encourage us to bring warmth, humour and kindness of heart and mind to the exploration of our intimate inner selves and the “feeling states” of being human. Together they explain “embodiment” and introduce to us a simple and powerful practical taste of the Embodied Life School™️. Via Feldenkrais Method, conscious movement and meditation using precision specificity of feeling and sensing, grounded presence is created in your own immediate experience. Russell and Linda discuss the meaning of “integration” of feelings, sensations, emotions, thoughts and convey how using principles by which our nervous system learns to grow our awareness be...
2021-04-2159 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownAlan Questel gifts intentional kindness...Heidi and Dale introduce a veteran gift to this Feldenkrais space, Alan Questel from SanteFe New Mexico USA. Alan has been practicing Feldenkrais since injuring his back many years ago whilst he was making a living to become an actor. He shares about some of the obstacles he faced along his pathway from being a client to becoming a trainer. Moshe often talked about practitioners bringing a unique aspect of themselves to his method, it seems his wish was that his insights for BEing human were expressed through people as they struggle/d with the maturation process of becoming...
2021-03-271h 22
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownKirk Aaltink’s journey of authentic maturity…Libby and Dale chat with Kate Tremlett, a Melbourne Feldenkrais practitioner, and her client of 20 years, Kirk Aaltink, with his mother Angie. In their synergistic journey of Feldenkrais inquiry and growth Kirk’s natural curiosity, drive and immersion in life-long learning and self-motivation has resulted in “Team Kirk” – a group of people dedicated to assisting Kirk to live his life with the intention of co-ordinated whole-body movement.
Kirk’s desire for freedom and speed in movement has surpassed all expectations, culminating in free skiing the Australian downhill slopes. His story is one of ultimate independence of spirit, fun, focus of mi...
2021-02-2157 min
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownZoran Kovich on making a difference …Zoran Kovich elaborates on teaching and learning in Feldenkrais practice and Professional Training and explores how we can know ourselves better in the clarity of ‘present moment’ experience through sensorimotor understanding and our perceptions of our embodied self. Zoran offers insight into how Awareness Through Movement lessons engage us in inquiry into human embodiment, cognition and learning. He elucidates what Feldenkrais espouses at any level - to care for yourself and find what you are looking for in your own human capacity, choice and potential. Compiling his expertise in Feldenkrais, cognitive science, learning pedagogy, somatic experiencing and dance, Zoran expl...
2020-11-271h 04
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownMolly Tipping and Brigit Cosgrove investigate anxiety…Molly Tipping and Brigit Cosgrove explore the association of habitual body postures with expressions of anxiety and trauma, using the Feldenkrais Method to assist with adaptation and regulation of our autonomic nervous system in mitigating the effects of anxiety. Discussing the impetus for their audio series 'Move Over Anxiety', they give professional and personal examples of Feldenkrais applications to create conditions favourable for learning ways to self-manage varying degrees of anxiety. Questions are invited into the importance Moshe Feldenkrais placed on his definition of anxiety and the relevance of his seminal texts in understanding our physiological response to today’s...
2020-10-281h 11
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownCynthia Allen shares business tips...Cynthia Allen shares top tips for sustainable business success in the Feldenkrais world, including establishing and maintaining an online Feldenkrais presence. Foregrounding the importance of the practitioner-client relationship and drawing on her considerable management expertise, Cynthia applies business and marketing acumen to demystify some common fears of starting out or taking Feldenkrais business to the next level. Covering some pitfalls in navigating this path, Cynthia inspires confidence in building viable Feldenkrais communities and collaborations.
Future Life Now https://futurelifenow.com/
Your Learning Body https://futurelifenow-online.com/
2020-09-231h 13
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownJulie Peck and Lesley McLennan expand ideas...Julie Peck and Lesley McLennan give a fascinating insight into the creative process of inquiry in both the writing of their new book ‘Moving from the Inside Out: 7 Principles for Ease and Mastery of Movement-A Feldenkrais Approach’ and in their individual styles of approach to learning, practising and developing good use of the self with the Feldenkrais Method. The quest to articulate their 7 organising principles is achieved with immense finesse, making them understandable with real life examples useful for the beginner, the movement enthusiast and Feldenkrais students and Practitioners alike across all learning styles.
Lesley McLennan: https://pote...
2020-08-241h 12
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownLarry Goldfarb flavours a conversation...Larry Goldfarb takes us on a colourful journey with lived practice of the Feldenkrais Method, discussing its relevance in navigating the terrain of contemporary personal adaptability and responsiveness. Questioning how to create a functionally integrated Feldenkrais community of learners, Larry ponders how to further evolve the education of Feldenkrais Practitioners, including online. In line with Moshe Feldenkrais’ intention, Larry challenges us to actively be involved in collaboration and innovation to bring Feldenkrais forward into relationship with more people in the world.
https://mindinmotion-online.com/larry-goldfarb/
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2020-07-261h 02
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownA profound conversation with Jeff Haller...Jeff Haller offers a rich and profound understanding of what is the true nature of the Feldenkrais Method; expanding human potential. He discusses the Feldenkrais 1981 Amherst training, Moshe Feldenkrais, how to overcome a habit, emotional intelligence, the secret to teaching an Awareness Through Movement Lesson and a whole lot more.
Jeff’s Links:
Jeff’s website https://www.insidemoves.org/Home
Practitioner Advanced Training: Taking ATM Teaching to the Future https://www.insidemoves.org/Workshops/11259/1/6/
Jeff Haller on the Feldenkrais Method and Emotional Well-Being https://www.youtube.com/watch...
2020-06-191h 07
Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownIntroducing Feldenkrais: Moving into the UnknownHi Welcome to Feldenkrais: Moving into the Unknown. A place where we dive deep into the Feldenkrais Method, chatting to "Embodied Scientists". We are Dale Dickins, Libby Murray and Heidi Carroll who are currently in training to become Feldenkrais Practitioners. Join us as we explore what it is to truly live in your own potential.
2020-06-1200 min