'Awareness Through Movement'

What happens in a class/workshop - see About ATM> - For Workshops please scroll right down...

Weekly Classes 2025 'All About Walking'

How we walk is more important than many of us realize. Our habits and movement patterns in our general posture will appear in how we walk. However, if those postural and movement habits are not such healthy ones, maybe we are just fine for many many years but then one day, a joint starts to give trouble, our back starts to hurt, and so it goes on - maybe this is familiar to you? So in this series we will look at how the different parts of us move both on their own and also as part of a collection of movement relationships that form what we call walking. Why not join us in this exploration? it will take place over a number of weeks in stages. We will explore the use of the feet, the eyes, the knees and hips, the chest and sternum, the arms and breathing - every part is involved in walking well.

Hope to see you there:

 

Thursdays 10-11.00 In Person from 9 January

at Blacklers, Dartington Hall Estate, Totnes TQ9 6EQ

For What to bring please scroll down page

and

Fridays 9-10.00 am Online from 10 January

via Zoom - Important: see How to set up Scroll down to see how you need to set up your space at home for an online class.

 

To Book: https://LifeworksSomaticsFeldenkrais.as.me/

 

Enquire: please click here> to arrange a free 10-15 min phone call if this will be your first class

Deadline for bookings is 6pm the day before.

Each lesson takes me time to prepare, lessons are tailored toward helping those that are booked, and, my 'admin mode' is a different mindset to 'teaching mode': No last minute bookings thank you!

 

Price: £120 for 12 week block. £70 for first 6 weeks block. £14 drop-in.

You can purchase a Recording as an add-on @ £2 per class booked or on request afterward.

Please sign up for a whole block if you can - this is recommended for more lasting and greater benefit.

You are always welcome to Drop In first and see if you are interested in going further.

Discounts - please ask, there are usually concessionary places.

 

Prerequisites to Attending a Class/Workshop: Capacity to lay on the floor, backlying, being on the side or front. Ability to get up and down easily unaided. Not in any persistent chronic pain. If these are not you, please get in touch by email or phone. Let's discuss your particular situation and the best way forward. I'll probably suggest you please come for a 1-1 session or few first before you try and come to class. ( In fact the people I've worked with who get the best and lasting results tend to combine both - so it's often just a question of figuring out what is going to help you best to get started).

 

Bookings Terms> (click to view)

When you book and pay, is is taken as your agreement to our Disclaimer> - (click to view)

 

Workshops

Friday 3 January 2025 Online 10 - 12.30

'Breathing'

By exploring selected ATM lessons you'll find out more about how you breathe and what makes you breathe and whether your usual ways of breathing are really the best, most efficient ways. After all, our breath goes on whether we are aware of how we're doing it or not, so we can do well to get in touch with our unconscious habits and learn about some different breathing patterns. Thus creating more options for us to do it differently, better, more easily and less habitually - without trying or having to remember to.

Important: Scroll down to see how you need to set up your space at home for this.

 

£30 - if booked before the New Year, £40 if booked after

 

To Book Now: https://LifeworksSomaticsFeldenkrais.as.me/

 

Enquire: please click here> to arrange a free 10-15 min phone call if this will be your first time

 

Bookings Terms> (click to view)

When you book and pay, this is taken as your agreement to our Disclaimer> - (click to view)

 

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How to Set Up - for Online Class/Workshop

please check I have the correct email address for you (one only), so that you will receive the Zoom Link for the class - usuallly sent a couple of days prior. You need a laptop with a decent internet connection, and be familiar with using Zoom. You will be asked to have your video ON during your class,

In addition you will need to set up:

• Somewhere quiet and private where you will not be disturber
• A mat, to lie on PLUS two folded blankets/towels (not cushions) for props
• A Laptop, positioned at one END of your mat AND Up on a Chair so that it looks down on your mat and sees it in full.
• Laptop also should be as close to the mat as possible
• Dress more warmly than you think in loose comfy clothing including socks and possibly mittens in cool weather
• Zoom link - if it isn't with you isn't with you by 30 mins before your class/appointment please phone/email me (but check your spam folder first)

 

How to Set Up - for In-Person Class/Workshopyou need

• To bring your own floor mat
• And two large bath towels/blankets
• Dress in loose, layered, clothing, warmly, and include socks and maybe mittens in winter/spring - lessons are quiet and you will cool down rather than warm up although the space is well heated
• Bring water to drink

 

Those with persistent pain or injury are recommended to have at least one 1-1 'Functional Integration' lesson before trying to a class/workshop

more info about Functional Integration and 1-1 ATM Online>

 

Get in Touch or To Book>

 

Bookings Terms For Classes/Workshops

Signing our Disclaimer - applies to all Classes, Workshops & 1-1 sessions

When you pay for any Class, Workshop or 1-1 Session it is taken that you have read and agree to the following:

"I understand that the Feldenkrais Method is intended as an instruction in the optimal use of the self.

I realize that it is not a treatment for medical emergencies, and is not intended as a substitute for normal medical procedure suggested by a physician.

I fully understand that nothing that may be told me by a practitioner in this field is a medical diagnosis, nor a substitute for a medical diagnosis, nor is it to be so considered by me.

I understand that what is said in a session, or anything others say during a class/workshop is Confidential. I agree to keep the Confidentiality.

I accept that all reasonable care is taken, and that all activities are undertaken entirely at my own risk and no responsibility can be taken by the Practitioner for any loss or injury of any type, physical or otherwise, suffered.

By taking part I accept responsibility for myself, my belongings, this includes my safety and well-being."

 

Missed classes

If you book a block, are your responsibility, and are not transferable forwards. Usually a recording can be purchased for an additional £2, and sometimes there is space on another class if one is running during the same block dates but this isn't guaranteed..

Recordings remain available for 7 days only - you need to download them if you want to keep them longer than this.

 

Discounts and Concessions

please ask if you need - proof of low income status required

 

Cancellations

Drop in bookings are non-refundable

Block class bookings and workshop bookings are fully refundable If made more than 7 days beforehand, within 7 days but more than 48 hours are 50% refundable,and within 48 hours are non-refundable

 

 

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