Workshops in Melbourne 2012

Let us know if you are interested email by clicking this link.

Functionally integrating the knees by developing awareness of the related structures

Thoracic Mobility, Softening & lengthening 14/01/12

Happy New Year and it's time for a Thoracic Workshop....
Be there:)

The first Feldenkrais workshop for 2012 and it's the only one I strongly suggest you attend!! If you regularly attend my classes you are probably aware of the importance of the function of the thoracic area. If the thoracic spine area does not contribute to your movement in general, your lower back and neck will have to compensate by overworking and becoming uncomfortable or painful and the culprit (thoracic spine) remains outside awareness quietly lowering our quality of living and skeletal health.

It's important to me that I give my students the best chance of avoiding the average and very common patterns of degeneration, hyper kyphosis, "dowagers hump" AKA "hunch back", for most people there is no real hope for correction but for my students of the Feldenkrais method (you:) there is. You know you should, I'll be back teaching next week and will encourage you again then :) x

It's been said even the grave cannot "fix" dowager's hump (hyper kyphosis)

but the ingenious movements in this workshop will facilitate straightening,
lengthening and more movement.

These are quite complex issues that are most easily understood at a leisurely pace
across at least a few hours.

Trying to get a clear picture in the usual 60 minute lesson is often frustrating
and really is not doing Justice to an aspect of ourselves that can have a
profound influence on life quality and skeletal health.

This workshop will run from 11am to 4pm, there will be 2 short breaks
The cost is $120.00 payable on the day. Recorded audio will be made available.

Workshops in Melbourne 2011

Gait, Walk to Run... following from the November workshop 10/12/11, last one for the year!

In this workshop we are going to investigate walking as a therapeutic process, feeling the physics of gait.

Easy gentle explorations of some of the components of walking will be investigated while comfortably lying on the floor as well as in standing.

The bid mechanics of good, easy walking has similar elements    to that of good easy running and generally puts less strain on joints, ligaments ligaments and muscles. If you want to reduce pain or run faster the same refinements are needed 

As it will be a small group you will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about improving what you are interested in regarding gait,

I will be recording the workshop as usual but this time with a view to making a recording that you can use when you go for a walk, 

 

how do your knees track? how does your neck respond? what are the elements that help or hinder your running? and what would you like to refine? 

These questions can be addressed when we enrich our awareness in the processes of walking by becoming familiar with some of the small details involved 

The whole self is involved in walking and can be used not only for transport and exercise but also as a powerful bodily alignment process which is empowering in its own right

We will look into how refinement of walking (gait) can lead to marvellous improvements in many areas of your overall functioning.  

Using the the obvious biomechanics realities of the human body and our neurological feed back systems we can discover fluency and ease of movement that is a joy to do and pleasing to see.

 

  Walking, the way to functional improvement.

Advanced "One Side" Workshop Windsor 15/10/11

An advanced one day workshop working with one side only. This advanced Feldenkrais workshop will deeply change the feeling and function of one side of the body only and the differences become a powerful learning experience. You will be free to choose the side.

The effects will last for a relatively long time. Spending a whole day working with just one side will create palpable, observable difference (not necessarily comfortable!) leading to options for choice. Experiencing such difference directly challenges notions of "fixity" in the nervous system, body and self

"The only thing fixed in the body is the belief that it is so" this workshop will let you feel this first hand and is only for people who have attended many of Peter's workshops and have some awareness of the deeper aspects of the method.

Not for the faint hearted. There is a workshop the following week of a symmetrical general nature at the Melbourne Recital Centre if an antidote is needed....

Please Check with me to make sure its appropriate.

Recital Centre Summery 22/10/11 (discount before 12/10/11) Bookings here

Lessons relating to general function, coordination and efficiency

On the simplest level, bending, extending and twisting may not seem too profound however they form the background of everything we do and experience and have a much greater say in the quality of life than any possession. If movement is a "pain" so is living.

If all your movements were more effortless and joyful, how would your life be different, how would you be different?

This workshop will be a series easy to effortless movements that are a joy to do and result in a blissful experience of your self that promotes a heightened sense of wellbeing and improved function on almost all planes.

Moving with a sense of ease and having awareness of that ease is the personification of self respect

SENIORS FESTIVAL 3,4,5,6 October 11:30 am MELBOURNE TOWN HALL Yarra Room

4 x 1 hour sessions over 4 days. A different set of movements each day. So you can attend any or all sessions. Each day will include improvements in balance and ease of movement.

September 17

Balance and the Chest - Thoracic spine, Ribs & breathing.

Balance matters, Don't lose it. How's your relationship with gravity going?

We are going to investigate one of the key aspects of the feeling and function of balance

It truly is one of the most important functions in life and sadly most people leave it entirely to chance..

Balance and posture is an ongoing dialogue between gravity and and our entire system. In this workshop we will explore the feeling of balance and ways to improve it. We will investigate unravelling the postural and movement patterns that can restore or compromise your balance. Looking to restore or improve the subtle balancing movements of the thoracic spine and the base of the neck

The chest, being the largest segment of the body, obviously plays a major role in balance. When the chest becomes ridged, even a small movement creates a large change in weight distribution demanding compensation from other parts of the body, usually in the form of tightening, further undermining balance. Along with the pattern of the "tight chest" comes a limited number of planes for breathing resulting in an increase in weight displacement with every breath, all this leads to an undermining of our movement security and therefore our self confidence & self image

July 16th

Trying to get a clear picture in the usual 60 minute lesson is often frustrating and really is not doing Justice to an aspect of ourselves that can have a profound influence on life quality and skeletal health

June 18th Rolling, Fantastic!

Level one / 60 Chapel Street Windsor, enter from McIlwrick Street, up stairs, green doors on your left.