THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD - Awareness Through Movement Group Lessons & Functional Integration one-to-one lessons

Please join me for Weekly Awareness Through Movement Classes, which will focus this block on exploring the potential of our breath in relation to how we feel, how we move, and how we organise ourselves. These are some of my favourite lessons in the vast Feldenkrais portfolio.

Awareness Through Movement Public Classes

5-Week Block focussing on the Breath in Movement - 6th May - 3rd June 2026

2 - 3pm Wednesdays, The Old School Studio, Newlyn

6 - 7pm Wednesdays, My Garden Cabin ( 7 spaces only) + via Zoom

Drop-In £10 or 5 Week Block £40 (for now the payments are via bank transfer or by cash - please email me for my bank details)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82381037047

Passcode: Feldy108

*** The remaining weekly classes of this term will be a bit jumpy and best paid for on a drop-in basis.

Wednesday 10th June - 2-3pm - you have the opportunity of practicing ATM (Awareness through Movement) with the great teacher Shelagh O’Neill who, as usual, will be in Newlyn teaching her Summer School. I hope you’ll sign up to enjoy a session or two. Here’s the link:

https://www.nicefeldenkrais.co.uk/penzance-summer-school

Wednesday 10th June 6-7pm NO CLASS

17th June, 24th June, 1st July - 3 ATM classes 2-3pm & 6-7pm(focus tbc)

8th July NO CLASSES

15th July, 22nd July - 2 ATM classes 2-3pm & 6-7pm (focus tbc)

Thanks for your patience…….

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FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION One-to-One Lessons

I offer one-to-one lessons in my garden cabin in Pendeen at 2pm and 3.30pm on Thursday and Friday afternoons (and expect to offer more slots as demand increases). The sessions involve about one hour of lying or sitting on a low padded table and allowing me to gently move you in ways to bring your own attention to your habits and the potential for moving and feeling better (see top picture on the left). whether you’re feeling fighting fit or are suffering from pain, discomfort, illness or injury, the sessions are soothing and often illuminating in the way they allow you to sense yourself perhaps in more subtle ways than usual, how you move and how you have habitual ways of holding and organising yourself. Many people report, how over time, the sessions can be life-changing.

I charge £50 for these lessons. However I am also aware that this amount is prohibitive for many people so please let me know if this is the case for you.

Please contact me to book a session by calling 07907 374278 or emailing hello@spaceofbeing.co.uk

(when this website is updated, I hope to return to an online booking system)

What to expect in general from an Awareness Through Movement Class?

The classes last about an hour, during which you are led verbally through a series of movements in lying or sitting positions. The movements are most often very gentle and slow, although over time, you may be introduced to more dynamic movements. Importantly, you will become aware of how different parts of you are involved in the movements, perhaps noticing when you’re using unnecessary effort or tension. You will be encouraged to find easier, more effortless ways of moving, so that you move in ways that are elegant, efficient, and even pleasurable. This is not a no-pain no-gain type of activity – in fact, we could say it is post-ambitious!

Through these sessions, you will probably feel deeply relaxed, more at ease in yourself, and you may notice a fluidity, freedom and ease in your breath, your movements, and a sense of your whole self. Feldenkrais not only encourages flexible bodies, but also flexible, creative, and spontaneous minds. The classes are for everyone, whether you’ve practiced Feldenkrais before or not. They can be helpful if you experience discomfort in your life, through injury, migraine, neurological disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, stroke, results of injury or childbirth, chronic pain, somatic aspects of emotional trauma. They can also be deeply beneficial for anyone who wants to become more at ease and self-aware. Practicing Feldenkrais can improve proficiency in activities including dance, theatre, yoga, surfing, running – and more. All you need is to turn up in loose clothes with enough layers to keep warm. Mats and blankets are available at the studio

“To make the impossible possible, the possible easy and the easy pleasurable” Moshe Feldenkrais

A little more about The Feldenkrais Method

The Feldenkrais Method uses movement, in ways that are accessible to everyone, to find ease, grace, and efficiency in how we move. The result can be a small difference (I find it easier to reverse my car these days ) and can sometimes be life changing (for people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, stroke & other neurological conditions - and more - my mum has chronic back pain and now practices Feldenkrais every day - she says it's changed her life!)

One of the challenges I find as a new student teacher of Awareness Through Movement is to find the right words to explain what Feldenkrais is and why it’s so beneficial, whether you are in pain or not, whether you are exhausted or not, whether you are seeking more freedom & grace in your everyday movements or not, whether you use movement, self-organisation, balance because you’re a dancer, a gardener, a yogi, a runner, a surfer - or not!

One way to start is to take seriously that moving gently and well within our comfort zone is a gift for our nervous system and for the way our nerves, muscles and bones freely and efficiently connect. As someone who feels I have to push myself at whatever I do, following instructions to do less has been very difficult - the very idea that I might not move or stretch as far as I am capable of just seemed weird!

But now with my own practice and watching people in my classes, the reason for doing less is becoming clearer - if we want freedom and to feel whole in ourselves (and this means different things for different people…), then we need to notice the detail of how we do things - if we push and we rush, so much goes by unnoticed. Most importantly we don’t learn much if we are in a hurry and seeking something larger. The Feldenkrais method is above all a way to listen to ourselves and to learn - and to keep learning. And then, of course, once the details and the subtleties of how we feel, of how we are organised, are in place, then we can play with speed and largeness.