Feldenkrais® Classes: Awareness Through Movement®

Classes, Class Series and Workshops 2008

Ongoing Classes

Here are our weekly Awareness Through Movement classes. Feel free to drop-in to any of our weekday classes. Cost is $15-. Take 10 classes and the 11th is free. We also have programs for Kaiser Members. Check out or special Workshops and Class Series too! Please call us with any questions you may have.

Mondays - General Class for all levels of experience
TIME: 5:00 to 6:00 pm
TEACHER: Deborah Bowes
and
T
IME: 6:30 to 7:30 pm
TEACHER: Deborah Bowes

Tuesdays - easy Feldenkrais for beginners
& people in pain
TIME: 12 noon to 1:00 pm
TEACHER: Cliff Smyth

Thursdays - for experienced students
TIME: 10:00 to 11:00 am
TEACHER: Deborah Bowes or Cliff Smyth


Workshops & Class Series 2008

These interesting workshops are usually for beginners and continuing students alike. We specialise in small classes for the best educational experience. Registration is essential. Call us to reserve a place, or for more information.

Saturday: May 31: 10:30 – 5:30pm: Cost: $85
Sounder Sleep One Day Workshop - Everyone welcome!
with Jean Elvin*

Disturbed and inadequate sleep are common symptoms of over-stimulation and the stresses of modern life. While inadequate sleep has long been associated with accidents, other health effects from lack of sleep are now becoming better recognized. Recently, lack of sleep has been linked to obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke. Thankfully, there is an antidote - a drug free way to a better night's sleep.

The Sounder Sleep System™ can help you restore your natural sleep cycles, relax your body, quiet your mind, and lull yourself into restful repose. When you reach that tranquil state, if you need sleep, you will fall asleep!

Learn to use "mini-moves™," naturally occurring movements of the eyes, hands, and face, which make falling asleep easy and pleasurable. These techniques can shift us from an alert waking state to one of profound physical and mental repose, at will. If you wake during the night, you can use mini-moves right in your own bed to get you back to sleep in no time. During the day, mini-moves help you manage stress and be more focused and effective.

You will learn powerful techniques for relaxation, sleep induction, and other time tested secrets of the Sounder Sleep System. Hope to see you there! Sweet dreams....

Bring: a pillow, a blanket and/or other comfort items that will help you relax. Mats for the floor are provided. Lite snacks, lunch money (to go out) or a sack lunch, if you prefer staying at the classroom.

"Our...sleep [and] regularity of rest...are performed by muscular acts.....And, though indirectly, we have significant control over [them], mainly through voluntary motor centers."
- Moshe Feldenkrais, The Potent Self


* Jean Elvin, FMA, GCFP, is a Senior Teacher of the Sounder Sleep System. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner cm and maintains a private practice in Palo Alto at Integrated Healing Arts.

 

Saturday June 7: 1:00 – 4:00pm: Cost: $45

Easy Transitions

with Julie Casson Rubin

Moving through our day with comfort and awareness. Learn to move from lying to sitting to standing and back again with efficiency, coordination and grace.

As the quality of your everyday action improves, strength, flexibility and easy breathing continuously develop. Through a process of learning to reduce unnecessary effort in functional patterns of action, we gain efficiency, stamina and a feeling of aesthetic satisfaction.

Workshops in other locations
FCME teachers often teach in other locations. When we have workshops planned you will find a link here for the details. If you are interested in having one of us come to teach where you are, please contact us!


Classes for Kaiser Permanente Members

For Kaiser classes, please register through the Kaiser Health Education Department at 415-833-3450. Several series of six classes are available throughout the year. You will find more detailed information here, or call the teacher,
Abby Miller at 415-661-8761.


Frequent Learner Points!

Our classes cost $15, and we have a ‘frequent learner’ scheme - attend 10 classes and get your 11th free! Ask your class teacher to give you a card to fill out and we will stamp your card each time you come to class.


We continue to offer you a great range of classes with many of the most experienced Feldenkrais Teachers in the country. Drop in for a class that will leave your feeling relaxed, energized and more in touch with yourself!

For further information on classes, workshops, and to register for a class series, please call 415.826.3680.

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