Group Classes
Move, Learn, and Grow Together
What to Expect
Group classes combine guided movement with simple explorations designed to help you sense your habits, patterns, and possibilities for change.
Classes are welcoming to all levels of physical ability and place the emphasis on awareness, comfort, and choice rather than performance.
From Fall, 2026 to the end of the summer, 2027, I will be providing an opportunity for anyone interested in the Feldenkrais Method and in particular, Awareness Through Movement® lessons, to have a full year of themes that take you from the foundations of Awareness Through Movement lessons to how to integrate what is experienced in a lesson to some aspect of your life.
Whether it be to manage anxiety, reduce pain, improve posture, balance and strength or to go deeper into your passion of interest, doing ATM supports endeavors that you care about and want to use to clarify, simplify, expand or study. How does doing ATM help one do that?
Thinking, feeling, sensing and moving are a part of each and every action that we do. In each action we have a different percentage of those components. By exploring movements we begin to see patterns emerge and we get to know ourselves better.
Better in how we think, what we think, how we are moving, how we feel and sense when we are moving. By improving the quality of the movement, we improve the thought processes, are more in tune with what is being experienced emotionally and how that translates to body sensations.
Through this experience of learning, we gain more options. We have more choice in moment to moment decisions that are more satisfying and more pleasant.
In this climate of uncertainty, polarity and conflict, having a clearer sense of self, having agency, and a way to manage the tensions that accumulate because of stress that we experience, we learn to have some ways in which to work with ourselves that change the neurological pathways.
We change ourselves. We change our brains. I don’t believe it when people say, “There is nothing that I can do.” There is always something that we can do. Let’s explore what that is.
Why Group Learning Works
Group learning offers the chance to hear how others describe their experiences, intentions, challenges, and discoveries. Often, you recognize elements of your own process in what someone else shares. This creates insight, resonance, and new ways of understanding yourself that are difficult to access alone.
People often Experience:
- Greater awareness of movement and posture
- Reduced tension and a clearer awareness of where you’re using effort you don’t need.
- Improved coordination, balance, and mobility
- Increased calm, focus and emotional steadiness
- A sense of connection through shared insight
Types of Group Offerings
Group classes are offered in 3–8 week series throughout the year, each with a specific theme.
Offerings may include:
- Awareness Through Movement® Classes
- Mindful Movement Series
- Relational Awareness Workshops
- Seasonal Intensives or Retreats
Foundations in Awareness Through Movement®
What actually is foundational in Awareness Through Movement® lessons? Why do they work? What actually happens?
We will begin with questions: Questions invite curiosity. They allow us to keep an open mind. They open the channel for discovery.
We will use movement in order to explore these questions:
- How does slowing down help learning?
- What do we pay attention to if we do slow down? Won’t I get bored or antsy?
- Is it true that all movement and therefore all action requires a sense of support, a sense of groundedness? What does that actually mean? How do I know if I have it?
- We use our senses in patterned ways, what value does awakening and using our sensation of light touch and deep pressure give us? What happens when sound, smell or sight overtake the sensations of light touch and deep pressure?
- What happens when thoughts overshadow sensation of light touch and pressure?
- What does the practice of using our attention in specific ways offer us?
- Is there a really a problem with efforting and striving?
Please join me this fall as we explore Foundations in Awareness Through Movement lessons.
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