Steady Steps and Exploring Balance in 2023

In April I am going to teach a short series of classes for steady steps and exploring balance. The Oxford dictionary defines the noun Balance as an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady: “she lost her balance and fell” And the verb, put (something) in a steady position […]

SURF’S UP 2020

The other day at a local surf-break I was watching a surfer catching wave after wave, his young daughter draped koala-like over his back, laughing together and enjoying every ride and wipe-out. He would choose a wave, pop up to stand, occasionally ride in and sometimes flop back in to the surf. Together they would […]

Life wasn’t meant to be easy, or was it?

“If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if I hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the […]

Movement lessons for Golfers: a smooth swing

Golf, the Feldenkrais Method ® and Awareness Through Movement® When you swing the golf club, the quality of your movement dictates how far and where the ball will travel, and hence the quality of your game. Practice makes perfect, right, or does it? If you continue to practice the same movement i.e. golf swing you […]

Yoga, Pilates, T’ai Chi and the Feldenkrais Method – How do they differ?

The Feldenkrais Method is a mindful movement approach that leads to improvement in physical and emotional well-being. It is based on learning how you move and then discovering more efficient and easier ways to move. Our neuroplastic brain enables us to learn, change and continue to develop throughout our lifetime. As we grow from babyhood […]

Good Health over Winter

Simple ideas to stay well Set SMART intentions this Winter Join me for an Awareness Through Movement ® (ATM) class As the temperature becomes cooler and it feels like Winter is here it might be timely to talk a little bit about health. What can we do to fare better in this perhaps not so […]

Benefits from attending Awareness Through Movement ® Classes

Discover how to move with more efficiency Develop body awareness Sleep sounder and deeper Discover how to move with more efficiency Movement efficiency improves as you learn and identify the moments when you interfere with smooth, coordinated movement, e.g. remember those times when you strike the tennis or golf ball with a sense of great […]