WEEKLY LIVE CLASSES ON ZOOM
5 SOMATIC SESSIONS TO SMOOTH YOUR SENSUOUS SOUL
29 May – 30 June 2023
Come join our thriving somatic community for five weeks of practice (2 lessons a week) in LOVING OURSELVES BETTER.
In a typical class, you will be led verbally through a series of movement and sensation explorations. You don’t need to watch me on the screen, which means a Zoom class feel more like a regular class than some practices where you need to watch. My classes give plenty of time for individual feedback and discussion and this is an important part of you growth and learning.
Often we start lying down, sometimes sitting or standing. You should wear loose, warm clothing and have as much space around you as possible, but at least enough for a yoga mat or folded blanket to lie on.
The world is pretty chaotic at the moment and it can feel quite overwhelming. How do we live in these times? I was reminded recently of the Taoist saying,
‘There is so much to do.
There is so little time.
We must slow down.’
Perhaps one of the best things to do right now is lie down and fine tune the art of listening to ourselves? The better to listen to how we meet our own and others’ needs.
For an hour or two each week, why not come and join our friendly community for Awareness Through Movement Group Class on Zoom? You will lie down, or sometimes sit or stand, and be guided through movements and how to refine your attention to them. There is time afterwards for sharing experiences, discussion and chat.
There is often a marked increase in your sense of wellbeing; you will find that you move more easily and often you will make surprise discoveries!
There are many things out of our control, but building our ability to adapt is within range. The ability to self-regulate and restore our grounded sense of self becomes more important. Adaptation is the name of the game right now!
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This term’s theme…
‘Loving Ourselves’
using Feldenkrais’s groundbreaking Esalen series.
On his first visit to the US in 1972, Feldenkrais taught a series of 46 lessons at Esalen in Big Sur, California, epicenter of the Human Potential Movement.
I’ve been playing with these lessons on my own for 6 months and I’m keen to share them with you.
They include versions of classic lessons not seen elsewhere and a range of powerful lessons he only taught in Esalen. The series is a tour de force and after completing the course participants were certified to teach Awareness Through Movement.
We will follow his sequence which gathers complexity as it progresses. Each lesson can also stand alone however, and drop-ins are welcome, but you will get more out of coming regularly. I will teach each lesson twice a week and you can to come to one or both for the same price if you pay monthly.
This is an opportunity to deep dive into Feldenkrais in a sustained way with a group of fellow somatic voyagers!
I hope 2023 provides us with many opportunities to roll around on the floor finding new ways to love ourselves!
If you’ve been sitting on the fence, watching from afar, now is a good time to commit to 7 weeks of classes between now and 30 June. There are two classes a week and you can come to one or both, plus you’ll get recordings of all of them.
A gift to yourself before the summer?
I have lots of nice juicy classes planned with a head and shoulders theme (plus the whole self) running through them.
They are ‘Introductory Lessons’. In the middle of the workshop in Esalen, Big Sur, the students asked Moshe to give a series of intro lessons so they would know what to teach when they finished with him. Esalen was a radical place (in many ways it still is), and Moshe’s work there was the mature fruit of his pioneering life’s work in somatics. We’ve been exploring the Esalen lessons since Xmas.
There will be no classes in July and August.
Amongst other things, I’ll be trekking the GR20 in Corsica and leading Feldenkrais sessions at the Improbable Summer School Our Work/Your Work (link in bio). High mountains and creative work. I’m pretty sure both will nourish my future practice and you will get to share the harvest later this year.
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ZOOM CLASS INFO
Mondays 18.00 – 19.00 GMT
Fridays 10.00-11.00 GMT
COST
£50 for five weeks (2 classes a week plus recordings – a bargain really!)
£10 drop-in (1 class)
Contact me via the form below to sign up for live classes.
You will also receive a FREE recorded audio class.
Claire says,
“I felt so much better after today’s lesson. It seems to have been healing in several ways. Thank you. A general sense of wellbeing, and movement flowing better. Thanks again for your wonderful instruction.” Claire, retired teacher with Parkinson’s Disease
Adventures in Movement 