A Sense of Movement

15/09/2024

Nearly there...

HI! Your journey into the joys of Awareness Through Movement are is starting soon. The first online class is at 7pm on Tuesday 24th Sept. The link to my professional Zoom room is at the bottom of this email. There will be an email on the day as a last reminder. That first lesson is a gorgeous one to...

15/08/2024

Now the season of lessons for the autumn is loaded on here. See Events.
They are scheduled for the wrong time as I am in the States atm, and so when I get back to the UK, they will convert naturally to the 7pm BST/GMT I am hoping for.

See you in the fall!

14/08/2024

Are you looking for a way of exercising your mind, body and soul that is intelligent, playful and deeply beneficial? Well I may just have the right stuff for you. As of September I will back to teaching Awareness Through Movement. ( Feldenkrais Method) To start with once a week on Zoom. Lessons to improve your posture, movement, breathing and thinking. Too good to be true? No! It’s just very clever. It works on the simple idea that the more awareness you have of what you actually do, the more your nervous system wants to help you do whatever it is more easily. And the more easily you achieve things the more space opens up to develop skills in areas you had hitherto not even known about. It’s win, win, win! Develop your curiosity to find deeper happiness. All welcome. Just click on the Zoom link when the time comes, and I’ll let you in. All you need is a space on the floor and a willingness to slow down for a bit and the world is literally…still the world, but you’ll feel a bit better about it. Promise,Tuesday evenings at 7pm BST, and then GMT. 45 minutes. Lush.

31/08/2023

Hi.
I’m off to France for a month.
It’s a working break.
I will be firstly doing a week-long workshop with Joiner and -Anne Jemmett with Travelling Theatre. From then on I will be going to Quinson in Provence to work on a clown juggling street theatre piece with the help of legendary BP ZOOM. It’s been 30 years in the waiting and now I am going to push it to the top of my to do list and actually perform it. Watch this space! 😬🤡🤩
I am going to off socials for the month and when I return offer up an exciting new package for those of you who want to practice Feldenkrais with me as well as continue training to prepare myself physically and vocally for a return to performance both on stage and in the street in 2024. I will also be building up to the publication of Shakespeare and Lecoq written by myself and Rokison-Woodall. I hope to persuade as many of you as possible to buy a copy. Although the title sounds niche, the book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in the creative process as well as actors, directors and teachers.
Have a great month my friends.

30/06/2023

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I have a confession to make. It is an addiction. Something that was introduced to my life as a pre-teen and still persists. I am a golfer! Why the hullaballoo? Well, golf and the people who, mainly, play it do not have a great reputation amongst my colleagues and followers. I am not going to dwell o...

29/06/2023

A wonderful and I unexpected encounter with one of my sporting heroes. A man with what is commonly thought to be one of the best movements in the game. But does he move well away from the ball…? To find out go to the blog on my website.

28/06/2023

This work is great.
It will reboot and inspire you on a number of levels.
I’m hoping to go back for more!!

The next Introduction to Authentic Movement workshop in Norfolk! Co-teaching with Melanie is such a pleasure for me. Come join us, and touch the essence of ourselves through this practice.

22/06/2023

Had a superb time yesterday refreshing my somatic soul with .willsher.9 and .of.the.day in Norfolk yesterday. We were doing or as it sometimes referred to “trusting the invisible”. They led the day with great skill and humanity and I felt inspired and moved to open myself up to the world inside and outside of me as a result. Deeply nourishing stuff. And in case you’ve not heard of it, Authentic Movement came out of dance therapy in the 60s. It involves closing your eyes and moving or being moved though the space or in stillness asking you to attend to your inner witness for an allotted period of time. We did 20 mins and then 30 mins. You then get a chance to process via words, meditation or drawing before talking through a moment whilst the leader “witnesses” and shares back what they noticed about the same moment. Great fun and ( in the true sense of the word).

22/06/2023

Daily movement sessions with Ed are now available. movement with Ed. Today’s is a very gentle ankle work out.

23/09/2022

A new season of Isolation Consolation is starting at 9am BST over on Facebook. Come and join me and the 2000 members of the group to win that chance of feeling calmer, better and more curious than ever. Just go to Facebook. Pop the words isolation and consolation into the search bar, and I will be live st 9am. If you are not a member of the group then simply join it! See you in a bit. ( In fact for isolation consolation you can see me but I can’t see you!) that actually makes it more relaxing-you do your thing and I won’t know!! You have to join The Flourishing Human if you want to do Feldenkrais with me and be seen! I will explain that in here soon. X

01/08/2022

Top tip for Edinburgh!

I had a small part to play in a terrific new play by Sam Potter going to the Pleasance called The Unicorn.
It is brilliantly acted by the multi-roling, Georgie Litman and beautifully directed by Anthony Lee.

It’s on at 6.30 pm at The Green ( Pleasance)-same venue as the excellent Ben Moor earlier in the day.

I did a day’s movement/actor coaching on this show and it was in all my 30 years as a theatre professional about the most enjoyable days work ever. Georgie was incredibly open, brave and responsive. Anthony is a wonderful collaborator and Sam said at lunch that she wished I was there whenever she wrote-so I must have been doing something right!! 😊

I saw the finished product a few weeks later in preview in Oxford and can report back, hand on heart, that this is a great way to spend an hour of your Edinburgh time. It’s grown up, meticulously performed and treads a very interesting line between s*x, and s*xy.

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31/05/2022

This is a wonderful way to do more Feldenkrais, and open it up as a possible new career! I did; so can you! 😀

SUSSEX 12 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME – STILL ACCEPTING STUDENTS:

Our Suss*x 12 training has now begun. We had a wonderful first segment in April and have a lovely and interesting group of students. The training is nearly full, however, we do have space for a few more students.

Those interested in training with us, are welcome to join Suss*x 12 on 10th – 13th June 2022 for their second segment, as an introduction to this training. After this they are then welcome to submit an application form to Suss*x 12.

If you have any students or know anyone who is interested in training to become a Feldenkrais practitioner, please send them in our direction at office@feldenkrais-itc.com for more information.


Warmest wishes,

Garet and Marianne

28/05/2022

Exciting!

03/05/2022

Old to be young. 7.30pm BST. Thursday 5th May.

One of the things that will make you older is the fear that you are old. Or the fear of getting older.

One of the tactics I encourage to be a a flourishing human is to allow yourself to be older to be younger.

This means that when you need to, allow yourself to be your own best friend and guide. You do not have to be hero to flourish. You need to understand yourself. That means supporting yourself.

This lesson will go through a strategy of getting from your back to your side with the help of your arms. It is subtle, quite challenging and great fun when you get it!

Please feel free to come and try an online Zoom lesson with me at The Flourishing Human. Here is the link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89557300861?pwd=N1BsRkFJOWo5cFpEMnZNbXQxTDhFdz09

If you have already had a free lesson, you can upgrade to a 14 day free trial. The link for that is here; just scroll to the bottom of the page:https://the-flourishing-human.mn.co/settings/landing-page

“I recommend Ed and his classes without hesitation, and with the glee of knowing that if you take that recommendation up you’re in for a treat.” Sharon Usher.

29/04/2022

We all wear a mask. Various masks in fact.

One of the first things I learned in my extensive Feldenkrais training was how to allow people to look at me without needing to try and influence what they saw.

You are what you are. And the more you are at home with that, the better. What defines you is what you do and not what you face says.

This lesson goes back to the beginning of my training but also to the beginning of our lives where we re-trace the first movement of life, that of sucking, and see how it affect s your face muscles and more besides.

Please feel free to come and try an online Zoom lesson with me at The Flourishing Human as a drop in. Here is the link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89557300861?pwd=N1BsRkFJOWo5cFpEMnZNbXQxTDhFdz09

If you think you'd like to do more Feldenkrais as a regular practice then you can upgrade to a 14 day free trial. The link for that is here; just scroll to the bottom of the page:https://the-flourishing-human.mn.co/settings/landing-page

“I recommend Ed and his classes without hesitation, and with the glee of knowing that if you take that recommendation up you’re in for a treat.” Sharon Usher.

22/04/2022

What a great day!
Feeling Grounded-a day retreat of awareness through movement.
Thanks for hosting.
Beautiful to meet people in the flesh I have only known online, particularly the amazing and Helen Davies.
I met totally new people too. Great to connect with and thanks to for the intro.
Wonderful to have old friend my acting days, Patrick Toomey in the room.
I got such great questions to try and answer. kicked us off with a great one about how you can gauge how to do things with less effort-a standby of the Feldenkrais Method.
So good to have repeat visits from Sarah Crowden ( who said at the end that she felt ten years younger!) and who managed to convey by the end that she felt giddy and grounded at the same time!
I have never done a “team photo” like this before ( in my own workshop ) for fear of it being cheesey. I think it’s really nice. !!
And I haven’t even mentioned the Zoom participant Kristi Rice who, get this, started the day at 2.30 am her time ( in Arizona) and completed the whole day and LOVED IT!!
There is something so special in this method! It’s been a hard day and my toothache is kicking in again as I wrote this but I’m so glad to have been able to share what I love.

17/04/2022

The Suss*x 12 Feldenkrais 4 year training has started!

I am here in my capacity as an Experienced Practitioner, which I’m very proud of. If you knew how I struggled through a lot of the training, you’d agree I am. I am actually at the beginning of a journey to be an Assistant Trainer; even more amazing!

Garet Newall would still like a few more people to join the training. It’s life changing. You can do it to enhance what you already do or even to have a new career. Feldenkrais is really going places.

I coined a marketing phrase yesterday for it. Everybody could do with Feldenkrais-for everything they do!! 😀😀 It’s THAT good.

Private message me if you are interested and I can pass your details onto Garet. It’s a lovely group and the training is in beautiful Lewes-East Suss*x.