Into Feldenkrais

Looking forward to teaching a workshop on balance at this weekend. Feldenkrais has so much to offer to help people move better, ease aches and pains & feel good in their body.

Booking via https://www.thebodysuite.co.uk/
Or call 07887 502111

A new study finds the key role of bone in regulating the fight or flight response. In response to alarm signals from the brain, nerves within bone release osteocalcin, which immediately lowers the parasympathetic "brake" and lets the fight or flight response take over!

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-09-bone-adrenaline-flight-response.html

This research is no surprise to anyone that studies or works with fascia, the connective tissue network of the body that is especially dense around the muscles. Fascia is known to play a huge role in the fight or flight nervous system and is also continuous with bone.

Although we think of bone as "solid," 20% of it is actually water, and electrical charges and movement of this water transmits mechanical messages through bone, just like it does through fascia. In fact some scientists call bone "mineralized fascia."

According to a recent review article, "bone is part of the fascial continuum...that constantly transmits and receives mechano-metabolic information." https://www.cureus.com/articles/16943-bone-tissue-is-an-integral-part-of-the-fascial-system

It is fascinating to see how scientists are unravelling the complex interplay between the nervous and musculoskeletal systems!

"[...] I will be your last teacher. Not because I will be the greatest you will ever meet, but because from me you will learn how to learn.
When you learn how to learn, you will realize that there are no teachers, that there are only people who learn and people who learn how to facilitate learning."

Moshe Feldenkrais

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I’m excited to be teaching a Feldenkrais class at The Body Suite’s ‘Rest and Retreat Day’ event next Sunday 25th June. My class is 11am and there will be a great bunch of other classes and treatments available through the day. Also a great chance to check out The Body Suite’s gorgeous new studios at Eastrop House in central Chichester and experience something new and lovely 😊

Looking forward to starting a day time class in the beautiful new Body Suite studio. We’ll play with gentle ways to reset and calm our nervous system through movement.

Do you think about how you move? Do you allow your body to move in healthy ways? What are you looking to achieve in your movement practice?
Mindful movement through Feldenkrais provides the body with recognition and permission to allow the body move and open releasing tension and restrictions. Move better, stand better and breathe better for improved wellbeing.
Combine these benefits with other exercise regimes to bring increased performance and endurance and deeper capacity. Sit stand and move better at work, home and in action. Give it a go with a trial class. Book via our Glofox booking system!

'You're only as old as your spine is supple' has a lot of truth to it! This week's classes are exploring ways to find a supple spine, releasing what inteferes with free movement of our backs through mindful movement exploration.

Tonight- 8pm on Zoom
Tomorrow (Wednesday))- 8pm @ The Body Suite, Central Chichester

How much energy do you invest in trying to be perfect? I spent many years as a dancer trying to perfect my dance technique, and many years personally getting exhausted trying to do everything 'right'. I love that Feldenkrais classes create a space where we're encouraged to play rather than perfect things. We get to sense, to experiment, to give ourselves permission to do something 'wrong' in order to find new ways. In this environment I breathe, I feel free, I get better results, the pressure lifts. If you're someone who tends to give yourself a hard time this work can be a lovely way to unpick old ideas of how you need to be, as well as the physical tension that accompanies it.

This week we'll be exploring the ribs as a key to unlocking greater mobility, comfort and power through the whole body. The ribs are often the secret ingredient to helping people feel better.

I've been a Feldenkrais pratitioner since 2008 and have found people rarely come to me because the ribs themselves are an issue, yet nearly everyone is restricted in their chest and when this area gets more mobile again everywhere starts to be able to move more freely. Its as though the ribs are a blind spot for most of us.

I think the chest is a place we carry a lot of emotion, in times I feel really sad I experience a heavy, pressing feeling on my chest, when I'm anxious I tighten up and lift, when I'm angry it seems to tighten round my diaphragm. I see these patterns in the people I work with and I see the powerful effects of releasing the holding here too. Its deeply tied in with our breath, the way we hold ourselves, the way we interact with others and the way we experience ourself.

Come and explore the possibilities of finding more movement in your chest and releasing old habits of holding with me this week, online or in Chichester. Its also something that can be explored in 1:1s.

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Thank you, Clare. Great description of the feeling after last night's class!

I love this quote! And I love the moments teaching Feldenkrais when I see people switch out of seriousness and concern to get it right into playful curiosity, keeping their focus but with a different quality of lightness and freedom. This place between enquiry, fun and total presence is where the magic happens- where we shift mood, shift sensation, shift our thought patterns and discover something new.

Thank you Kate, Saffron and Anna for your feedback messages from my class last night.
Its not easy to understand what Feldenkrais is without having the physical experience of doing it but so nice to be able to share people's words about their individual experiences.

In this week's classes we'll be playing with finding the power of our hip joints in order to feel more connected to the floor, and in the process of tuning into your body you'll find yourself feeling more connected to yourself too.

Looking forward to teaching my online workshop this Sunday- still space to join, open to all interested to understand and improve the function of their pelvic floor.

(All times are GMT) Online classes- £9, workshop- £35.

As always, 1:1 hands on sessions available in central Chichester too.

As adults I think we're conditioned to feel we should know everything already. It can be uncomfortable to realise there's stuff we haven't figured out or to question things we thought we knew and now aren't so sure of. I love this quote from Moshe Feldenkrais that 'the more comfortable we are revealing our ignorance to ourselves, the more we will learn'- its ok not to know, in fact its necessary to discover more! Feldenkrais classes ask us to approach our own body and ways of moving with a beginner's mind. Its a safe space to come back to square one, sensing how we are, how we're functioning and to gently enquire what could be. Yes it can unpick our ego a little, but it carries us forward into feeling so much better.