Audio classes $42 - Missed the live classes? Do them at home in your own time. 6 Audio lesson recordings.
3 month access from whenever you sign up.
6 x Hour long Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM)® audio lesson recordings - "Adaptable Breathing"
These 6 “Breathing” lessons/explorations will guide you through the general anatomy of your breathing apparatus and give you the felt sense of fuller easier breathing.
While the breath underpins all Feldenkrais movement classes, these lessons put a lens more closely on the breath itself. Improving the breath improves the chemical nature of your blood and the tissues it supplies. Learning how to free the diaphragm and rely less on the upper chest gets all the ribs moving and eases the strain off the neck and back.
People with chronically tightened tissues who suffer from tiredness and/or chronic pain will always be found to have sub optimal breathing habits. Habits you can tweak with these classes and ongoing practice.
In the words of the neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, “The diaphragm stimulates your phrenic nerve to tell your brain about the status of your body…”. While breathing mostly just happens without thinking, our breath and hence your breathing diaphragm can be moved under our conscious control to allow us to alter our own physical state. You can move through relaxed and excited depending on how you control your breath. Your posture and walking is affected by how you breathe. So yeah, you can accept the breathing you have or you can be curious about expanding your options around your breath and believe that life can be different.
Its important to include movement lessons in your life to stem and even reverse the tide of reduced function that is considered a normal process of aging. I believe regular mindful movement experiences such as Feldenkrais are as important as daily exercise. Dare I say more important? Feldenkrais tunes the breath, body and mind to allow you to function more efficiently.
These classes involve a range of movements where the attention is on the “how” of the movement. How do you make it harder than it need be, how could you make it easier? What is your intention with the movement? How does the intention affect your breath? Can you be more interested in the process rather than the outcome? Are you so focused on the outcome you miss the process? Do you hold your breath to move? Does holding your breath make it easier or is holding your breath an habituated response to expecting something to be difficult?
These movement classes raises body awareness by mapping the many parts of ourselves in action in our brain. We learn to know better where are bodies are in space and what we do, not just in the Feldenkrais class, but in all life situations. If we don’t actually know what we do how can we change to improve? Body mapping through slow and attentive movements is an ongoing exploration. Come and join me on a journey of self discovery and self improvement.
Only 1 ticket can be booked at a time.
After completing your payment you will recieve an email with links to the recordings of the "live" classes which will remain available to access for 3 months. This gives you the motivation to find an hour a week to experience the lessons and then have time to go through them a second time. Many people find it interesting to re-visit the same lesson later to discover things can feel quite different the 2nd or 3rd time around. This is the path to richer learning. To learn something new and never revisit it you couldnt expect to retain the learning. Not in any sphere of learning and not in body learning either.
If you do not receive the email with the links check your "spam" folder or you may have entered your email address incorrectly, in which case please contact Vanessa asap.
Contact Details:
Vanessa Stephen 0416 101 854 and vstephen@amnet.net.au
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