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Movement for an Intelligent Body. Feldenkrais classes, lessons and workshops

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Improve the way you move, transform your life...

04/01/2026

Happy New Year | Blog

The end of the year is often a time to recalibrate, and make plans for the next. It can be useful to have some questions to focus thinking. I've put together a couple for you.

What went well (2025)
1. Which moments of 2025 are you most proud of?

2. When things went better than expected, what seemed to make the difference?

3. What did you cope with more smoothly or calmly than you would have a few years ago?

Looking Ahead (2026)
4. What capacities would you like to grow this year? What do you want to feel less difficult or effortful by the end of the year?

5. If you only improved a couple of things, what would make your daily life noticeably better?

6. What kind of support would help you stick with changes, instead of losing momentum?

If you've been wondering about trying out Feldenkrais, then do put a toe in the water in 2026! Learn more about everything that I offer by visiting my website - link in the comments below.

13/12/2025

Emily shares her experience with Feldenkrais, and the impact that is had on her ability to play, her physical and mental health.

Feldenkrais is a powerful tool in recovery and sustainable performance. Join me for a class to experience it for yourself- visit my website to learn more.

07/12/2025

Rolling is fundamental for babies to learn to feel themselves in gravity. It’s equally important for adults, to stay supple!

Childspace Method™️ and the Feldenkrais Method are wonderful ways to learn how to move and feel better!
Send me a message to see how I could help you or your child

29/11/2025

Would you like the turning power of an owl? | Musicians' Blog

I’ve always loved owls. And the way they can swivel their head to see behind them in a moment. It would be very useful in lots of scenarios!

As you probably know, an owl can turn its head 180 degrees because of the double jointed neck.

And we don't have one of those, which is sad. What we have instead is the ability to look behind using all the turnable vertebrae and lower limbs.

Using all the twisting

To do that, we need to use the whole skeleton in a well co-ordinated way. Not to divide and overuse, but to use all the vertebrae, and the limbs in proportion with their size.

Each position allows for different movements and awareness of yourself. It's that combination of awareness in movement that can make the difference.

Kinaesthetic Learning

Learning is about noticing differences. As our level goes up, the size of difference that we can notice gets more refined. In a Feldenkrais lesson, you're learning to feel yourself in space, in motion, internally. Each lesson helps improve both your interoception and proprioception.

Feldenkrais lessons can help you to regain the suppleness and flexibility of your neck (and spine). And feel your whole self holistically. Book your first session with me - visit my website (link in my bio) to learn more.

24/11/2025

The Myth of Muscle Memory | Blog

So often I hear people talking about muscle memory as if it's a thing. Something where the muscles remember movements, and pathways, or levels of contraction.

Muscle memory is a myth.

It's simply not true. There is no such thing as muscle memory. If it were people who had accidents and suffered injury to the spinal cord wouldn't be paralysed. Their "muscle memory " would take over, and they'd be able to move. But they can't and don't because it doesn't exist.

The brain holds all of the tools for movement. The nervous system is both signaller and receiver of information. It's the brain's ability for memory, spatial, physical, musculo-skeletal that form habits. These allow us to fast track patterns of movements that we do repeatedly. When we rest, the brain creates neural networks, or reinforces them, so that over time, we don't need to think about doing our shoelaces, but can have a conversation at the same time.

Why does it matter?

Because if you imagine the muscles have a co-ordinating role, that's where you'll focus when you want to improve your movement. If you know that it's all about the brain, all of the time, then you'll realise that to improve what you're doing, you need to include your brain in the picture.

Including your thinking to improve your physical self

This is where Feldenkrais comes in. You'll learn to co-ordinate yourself better in each lesson. You'll learn to feel yourself more clearly over time. This takes some of us longer than others, but including your brain in the picture of your body isn't a habit most of us have. Descartes and his followers have a lot to answer for!

Are you ready to see what Feldenkrais can do for you? With individual sessions, I can offer you a personalised help with pain or injury, and an intensive way of making fast progress. Send me a message for details, or visit my website, www.themovingbrain.com to learn more.

22/11/2025

How long is your neck?

Do you think of your neck as a separate, or as part of your whole spine?

This week's lesson is looking again at how you might stick out your neck, but from a different angle! We'll be doing the lesson in sitting. The position change means you'll explore different options of movement, gravity, and sensation.

Your posture can be best improved from the inside out.

Learning to stack the spinal vertebrae on top of each other needs you to be able to feel it. So that you support your head from the bottom (literally!). Then the muscles can do an efficient, and proportional amount of work. Learning requires your brain to feel differences that make a difference. So bringing you out of alignment and then back into it. Once you've felt that, your nervous system can choose the more effective version.

Working in movement allows your innate intelligence to shift in your unconscious. Conscious control takes too much brain space to maintain "good posture". If you try to alter where your head is without feeling the whole spine you'll likely not find it so useful.

Try it for yourself:

Sense if your head feels forward of your spine or chest, and if so, how much,

Then just push it back: imagine someone pushing your cheekbones backwards. Then hold the pose for a moment

It's probably not comfortable, even if your head is now over your spine. Perhaps you can feel extra tension in your upper back or the base of your head, or top of the neck. And as soon as you let go, your head will come forwards again. You might still feel a little ache. It's not sustainable way of making useful postural change.

So what should you do instead?

Exploring how you balance the head on top of the whole length of the spine is going to be more useful. Sensing the whole spine, from the bottom up. Working out what you're holding and where, and which isn't necessary. We can do this through movement exploration. So it's an organic way of learning. In a lesson, you strip back to the simplicity of movement, in the moment. This allows your nervous system to sense without ambition to achieve. To feel simplicity. To sense when your head stacks up on top of the vertebrae. When it feels easy.

Unconscious control:

Coming back to sensation, movement, and play allows your unconscious in on the act. It allows your nervous system and brain to do what it does best -changing autonomic control. Your unconscious brain simply gets on with it in the background. It'll choose the best option for the moment out of those available. Over time, this becomes internalised learning. Movement, Play, and sensing is how you learnt language and walking, on your own.

It's not hard, but it does need time to explore, to sense and feel, and to distinguish differences.

Join me for a class - visit my website (link in my bio) to learn more about what I offer, whether you are looking for in-person or online sessions.

15/11/2025

Are you sticking your neck out?

It's a phrase that has many meanings, of course, but I was thinking in the literal sense. Often when we spend a lot of time on computers, screens, or simply sightreading or reading, we take our head forwards in space, like a turtle.

But it's not designed to stay there! Our head is optimal when supported stacked up on top of the spine- when it's forwards of the chest we have to use our flexors right down to the p***c bone, and the neck muscles too! It's a very inefficient way of doing things.

Feel it for yourself.

Slowly, gently, slide your head forwards like a pigeon. Further than normal, but only as far as reasonable. At the same time, sense down to your p***c bone at the front, and down the back - where can you feel the extra work? Slide your head to return, and feel the difference!

Try it a few times, so you can build up a kinaesthetic picture for yourself of this movement. You might even find that at the end your head is resting differently, and you breathe a little freer! Your awareness on its own can be enough to make a change.

If trying this for yourself at home felt good, why not join me for a class? I offer individual and group classes, online and in person - visit my website (link in my bio) to learn more, or send me a message to discuss what could be right for you.

12/11/2025

Almut was a participant in one of my Reducing Anxiety courses. Through weekly lessons, he discovered the power and poise that Feldenkrais could bring to his life.

"The lessons have become an important part of my week and I love starting the week with you and the exercises! I notice changes in how I can feel myself in movement and that I move with more ease and grace. So wonderful."

Are you ready to begin your Feldenkrais journey? Why not register for my mailing list to learn more about your options for working with me, from individual sessions to courses. Visit my website (link in my bio) to sign up.

07/11/2025

Do you know how to find out if your neck is stiff or uncomfortable because your spine isn't helping it move?

Draw a tiny circle in the air with your nose. As you do it feel which parts of you move along with it?

For many people, the only thing that moves is the head and neck. If that's true for you, it's the signal that your neck is over isolated. You're not using the support of the whole spine, but making your neck do all the work on its own! But the neck is just a small part of the whole spine.

Do you think of the neck, head or pelvis as part of the spine?
You need a level of co-ordination through your whole spine, and ribs. When that's not there, you'll find your neck is over working, and may either be stiff, and/or painful.

The rest of the spine is the support structure for the neck. For the spine to be free, your ribs have to be able to move. And turn, the base of support for your spine is pelvis. From the sitting bones up to your sacrum, and above.

From a spinal point of view, you can also think of the pelvis as the bottom vertebra of the spine, albeit a rather large one. And the head, a bulky top vertebra!
When you include the head and pelvis in your view of the spine, it will also affect how you use it.

Whole spine co-ordination is necessary for a mobile neck
So being able to feel the pelvis, spine and head connected is crucial for your ability to support the neck. To keep the neck well oiled, you want a good quality of movement. Which in turn requires an amount of skill in sensation and awareness.

If trying the exercise at the beginning of this post in the comfort of your own home felt good, why not try Feldenkrais online? In addition to in-person classes and lessons, I also have online options - visit my website or contact me directly to learn more.

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