Movement lessons for
improved function and well being
Relief from tension and muscular pain
Relaxation and greater vitality
Improved posture, balance and co-ordination
Easier and fuller breath
Improved artistic and athletic performance
Feldenkrais in East Dulwich and Greenwich, London
with Hannah Wheeler (Feldenkrais Guild UK).
Contact me on 07716 099181 for a non-obligational chat about what Feldenkrais could do for you.
What is Feldenkrais? And who is it for?
The Feldenkrais Method is a unique approach to movement and learning. Through gentle and innovative movement explorations, we tap the innate intelligence of the human nervous system to create higher levels of function. You learn to move with greater ease, power and efficiency and awaken your abilities to sense, think and feel. Feldenkrais works by enabling us to recognise our individual ways of doing things and discover new possibilities that serve us better.
Everyone can benefit from Feldenkrais, we all have patterns of muscular tension that restrict us. Feldenkrais sessions help you to do what you want to do in your life more easily. People may come to Feldenkrais for help with pain and tension or to improve a specific function in the arts or sport. The method is also helpful to children with developmental delay, those recovering from injury or childbirth and for people with neurological conditions such as MS, Cerebral Palsy or stroke.
To make the impossible possible,
the possible easy and the easy
pleasurable.
Moshe Feldenkrais
How does Feldenkrais work?
Feldenkrais lessons work by addressing the ways of moving and holding that lead to pain and injury, and interfere with our potential for both pleasure in daily life activities and optimal function in skilled activities.
Limitations in movement are often due to the unconscious habits of muscular holding we develop through our lifetime. Most of us have experienced physical or emotional trauma at some point and though our body may have absorbed the effects of this at the time, stresses and strain remain stored in the muscles and held as pattern in the brain. This creates bad posture and movement which make more stress and strain. Its a vicious circle. Feldenkrais sessions break this circle, helping people recognise habits of tension and discover alternatives to eliminate limitations and restrictions. As a result we learn better body mechanics and discover ease through natural flexibility and new-found coordination.
In Feldenkrais learning takes place directly at the nervous system level, therefore new information is automatically available when moving without continual, conscious thought. Results are often immediate and profound. You discover flexibility does not require months of stretching but an awareness of how to distribute movement throughout the body. Breathing deepens. Strength increases as we let go of the tension interfering with the skeletons alignment.
The process of discovering our unlimited potential as physical beings spills over into all areas of life. Because the Feldenkrais Method focuses on the relationship between movement and thought, increased mental awareness and creativity accompany physical improvements.
Through awareness we can learn to move with astonishing lightness and freedom.
Where and When
GROUP CLASSES:
Lee Complementary Health Centre: Thursdays- 11.30- 12.30
(Starting 2nd June 2011)
172- 174 Manor Lane, Lee, SE12 8LP
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Laban Health: Wednesdays- 12.30- 1.30pm
(Starting Wednesday 15th June 2011)
Laban, Creekside, Deptford, SE8 3DZ
1:1 FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION SESSIONS:
Laban: Wednesdays 9am- 1pm
Phone 0208 4699479 or visit www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/laban-health to book
online
The Family Natural Health Centre: Monday- Friday appointments available
Please phone me on 07716 099181 to book
About Moshe Feldenkrais
Dancers, Musicians, Artists and Athletes
Feldenkrais classes are a powerful tool to help you expand and refine your skills. By improving your sensory skills, you will develop greater dexterity and find new ways to refine your technique. Enhancing your ability to perceive subtle differences aids making fine distinctions. Discovering unlimited movement possibilities feeds creativity.
Through Feldenkrais, athletes and dancers find that learning to move with less effort and more efficiency increases stamina and minimises stress on muscles and joints. This can help you avoid, or recover from, injury.
"The Feldenkrais approach has helped and continues to help me refine my understanding of my body. Feldenkrais helps my habits appear as positive resources from which to discover more range and capacity. In recovering from an injury to my ribs and sternum, FI work has been invaluable for helping me re-learn and re-integrate my moving - useful for my confidence, creating and performing."
Elizabeth, dance artist and movement director
The Feldenkrais Method
for Children
Read
Throughout his lifetime, Moshe Feldenkrais published several books on his work, including Awareness Through Movement and The Potent Self.
His insights continue to influence disciplines such as physical medicine, gerontology, the arts, education and psychology and he made an incredible contribution to the field of human consciousness.
Click on the books
for more info.
Watch
"Natural movement comes through harmonious coordination," says Ruthy Alon, an Israeli who worked closely with Moshe Feldenkrais.
These videos are not presentational, and do not give you a step-by-step method. Rather they allow you to explore movement with Alon's demonstrations as a guideline.
She invites you to move "like a child let into a playground, inspired by curiosity."
Click on the image of Ruthy Alon
and the Youtube logo
to watch the videos.
An inspirational story about the body's ability to teach the brain. A baby born 20 years ago without a third of her cerebellum was given a grim prognosis by medical doctors: she could never walk or talk.
Now the young woman enjoys a nearly normal life and is a college student.She and her family attribute her amazing recovery to Feldenkrais.
"Hannah thank you for the wonderful series of lessons that I have had with you, your open and patient approach really have helped me grasp and address some of my bad movement habits which have been holding me back in my personal and professional life. I feel a greater feeling of freedom in my body and also in my mind. I start to understand where my neck and shoulder pain come from not using my whole body, and I feel lighter and more in myself now. I am sleeping better, playing better and working better. I highly recommend Hannah to anyone wishing to find greater ease in their own body."
Maria Green
Awareness Through Movement (ATM)
Functional Integration (FI)
Please contact me if you would like to make an appointment, an enquiry or to join my mailing list to receive information on classes.
Hannah Wheeler
London SE22
Mobile: 07716 099181
Email: hannah_intofeldenkrais.com
Individual lessons available in East Dulwich, Monday to Friday and at Laban, Greenwich on Wednesdays from 9-1. Group classes at Laban and Lee Complementary Health Centre.
To book at Laban click on the image.
