Two courses start in the last week of July 2010:
Feldenkrais FUNdamentals is an ideal introduction to Feldenkrais classes and is also suitable for people who have enjoyed Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes before. Details
If you stand, walk or run On your feet might help you be better balanced or more comfortable during these activities. Details
Summer classes begin again mid-February and will be very cool this year with the recent installation of air-conditioning.
A super-quiet and super-efficient 6 star Daikin spilt system has been installed in the studio. When compared to the 35 year old air conditioner we used last summer the difference is amazing!
Enjoy the comfort of the studio and improve the comfort of your body with classes this summer.
Click on the option that interests you for more details:
Remember: Register online and receive 20% discount automatically.
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Class and course terms
Casual classes
My practice will be closed for the holidays:
from Wednesday 23 December 2009
to Monday 11 January 2010.
The practice mobile phone will be unattended during this time.
You may leave a voice mail or send a sms message and I will collect them when I return.
Best wishes for you and your loved ones for Christmas and throughout 2010.
Sarah x
during Stay on your feet week, 13 -19 September 2009
Attend a free workshop in:
Call 1800 001 550 to register
The worshops are being run by WA branch of the Australian Feldenkrais Guild.
Please call them on 1800 001 550 to register or for more information.
I was touched to recieve this in an email yesterday.
I enjoy recieving messages from people who want share their experience of Feldenkrais and what they have learnt.
It’s more meaningful when someone who has very limited energy takes the time to write.
Thank you, Aislinn.
My name is Aislinn and I am a 29 year old secondary breast cancer patient. I first tried Feldenkrais classes in Melbourne when I was too weak from chemo to continue yoga classes. I found these to be very helpful and was so glad to be able to do some sort of stretching again. Then I lost my job and could no longer afford classes. I found work again months later and found the strength to resume yoga, swimming, cycling and walking, but never returned to Feldenkrais. I had ‘fallen off the wagon’. Two years later, I experienced extreme back pain. My chiro, who usually fixed my back problems, was unable to solve it and I was so tense a masseur could barely have touched me. I couldn’t even eat as the knots had spread to my stomach also! I didn’t know where to turn. Luckily, mum put me onto Sarah, and her unique blend of Feldenkrais and physio skills eased the pain and gave me greater freedom of movement. She diagnosed the cause of the problem to be incorrect movement patterns in my left shoulder following the removal of cancerous lymph nodes under my left armpit six months earlier. Through one-on-one Feldenkrais sessions, Sarah managed to get me into a much better state. I am now pain-free and I hope to regain full movement in my left arm soon. Thanks Sarah and to Moshe Feldenkrais himself. Without his technique, I am sure many people would still be painfully crippled today!
The link to Promoting Dexterity in Technical Dance Training using the Feldenkrais Method didn’t show in Catherine’s comment on Feldenkrais Sydney.
Here’s the abstract:
Promoting Dexterity in Technical Dance Training
using the Feldenkrais Method
By Zoran Kovich
Professional dance training must equip dancers to work competently in the industry. The ability to manipulate technical dance skills is an essential requirement. Referencing Nicholai Bernstein’s motor learning theory, it is proposed that Feldenkrais Method learning processes can be used in technical dance training to promote the development of dexterity.
“What sort of learning is important? …the learning that enables you to do the thing you know in another way, and one more way, and then three more ways, is the learning that is important.”
Moshe Feldenkrais, 1984
Author’s biography
Zoran Kovich worked as a martial arts instructor, then as a professional dancer, and now teaches the Feldenkrais Method in Sydney, Australia.
Positive changes in his dance skills emerging from personal practice of Mabel Todd’s ideokinetic method prompted Zoran to investigate and experience other somatic education approaches, leading him to commence Feldenkrais training in 1988.
Since 1990, he has lectured in higher education dance programs, designing and presenting courses in Feldenkrais Method, Somatic Education, functional anatomy, kinesiology, and movement analysis. His academic background includes studies in social science, performing arts, and cognitive science.
Zoran is deeply interested in exploring links between theory and practice, especially in the area of training and learning. In 2004, he was accredited as an assistant trainer in the Feldenkrais Method.
Its great to see that Catherine has got her website, Feldenkrais Sydney, up.
Catherine and I met during our Feldenkrais Training Program in Sydney.
Since graduating in 2003 we have continued to be study-buddies.
Quite a feat considering the distance between Perth and Sydney!
The usual format is a weekly phone call to discuss a preplanned topic and other questions or experiences we have had during the week. I especially enjoying attending courses and advanced trainings with Catherine. The discussions over the following months really help get the most from the course content.
I’m enjoying being back at home after travelling.
Winter is here, and at the moment that means rain. Its lovely after such a dry summer to see, feel and smell the rain. My garden is loving the generous amount of water the sky is giving it.
It also means that Winter classes will start soon.
One of these courses might interest you:
Remember: Register online and receive 20% discount automatically.
Other ways to pay
Class and course terms
Casual classes
The Age published an article on Feldenkrais called The gain from gentle relief of pain on November 13, 2005
Written by Angela Cuming
Danielle Wiessner suffered so much back and hip pain when she sat at her desk she almost quit her job.
The sound designer and music producer had lived with the pain for the past 20 years.
“I was going to leave my job, I couldn’t sit down any longer,” she said.
Then Wiessner discovered the Feldenkrais method, stopped the pain and stayed at work.
Based on martial arts and biomechanics, it teaches awareness of the body and re-educates people to understand the way the body was designed to move by using gentle movements including stretching and changing posture as well as manipulation.
“A friend suggested that I try Feldenkrais and it has been the most amazing thing I did,” Wiessner said.
“I have really noticed a difference in my body. I can move more freely now. You gain awareness of how you move, of how you sit, how you stand.
“You just start to adjust your body and posture in such a way that is fluid and easy.”
An article with this title was published in the Sydney Morning Herald 11 December 2003.
It quotes Frank Wildman who was the Educational Director of my training program.
“The work is about learning,” he says. “It’s about how to change fundamental habits and how to reinstitute new habits without going through rote or repetition; without having to be punished until you do it; without having to experience anxiety or the fear of failure as your motivation, but by working through movements that are expansive enough, novel enough, and that are really original.”
By “habits” Wildman is talking, among other things, about our posture, balance, the way we move and have learnt to move over the course of our lives.
Instead of treating painful backs, necks and shoulders in more conventional ways, Feldenkrais lessons work on changing the habitual patterns that underlie a problem.
