UNPACKING POSTURE: POSTURE or ACTURE

UNPACKING POSTURE
POSTURE or ACTURE

Monthly Workshops for Life & Living

Improve your posture and balance, move with more comfort, ease, and power, free your breathing, and feel better.

The May-July workshop series will explore the theme of POSTURE, which is the theme of this year’s International Feldenkrais Awareness Week (IFW) 6-13 May.

The July session will explore posture as it relates to action, and not to the maintenance of any given position.

Feldenkrais writes:

“Posture ... is ... describing action, and is a dynamic term…. We are concerned with ‘acture’, and not position, with a manner of doing and not a manner of fixing oneself.”

“In any coordinated, well-learned action – such as thinking, speaking, eating, breathing, solving problems, drawing, or fighting – we can distinguish certain features or recognize the following sensations: an absence of effort, an absence of resistance, an absence of holding the breath, and a presence of reversibility.”

“At every instant or stage of a correct act, it can be stopped, withheld from continuing, or reversed without any preliminary change of attitude and without effort.”

Join the session and use a sophisticated combination of movement and attention to reduce muscular tension, improve your confidence and control in mobility, free your breathing, and improve your sense of wellbeing.

Closely related to the May and June workshops, all working together towards improving your skeletal support and the overall organisation when upright. Whilst each workshop can be experienced independently, in order to maximise the benefits, I recommend attending as many as you can.

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Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons consist of a series of gentle, ingenious movements, verbally directed and exploratory in nature. There are hundreds of lessons which focus on different themes and interconnections between the nervous system, the muscles, the skeletal system, and our responses to the world around us.

Each month we focus on a different theme keeping us engaged in building a clearer image of ourselves, by paying attention to our sensations as we move. Broadly beneficial and appropriate for people of all ages, interests and abilities.

Book your place for a 2 hour long Feldenkrais session and start enjoying the benefits.

Wear comfortable layered clothing. Please bring your own floor mat to lie on if you can (some mats will be provided if you do not bring yours).

Booking via Eventbrite or contact Ana directly, www.feldenkraiswithana.com.

If event SOLD OUT, please email Ana directly as there might be some last minute places available!

Everyone welcome. Join & Enjoy!

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