Reconnect with your base

6 Powerful movement recipes to feel resilient and alive

Do you want a resilient, happy back, and a healthy energy balance?

So many people experience fatigue, tension, and pain in their backs. More often than not, freezy habits of holding ourselves together through unnecessary muscle tension, emotional stress, assumptions and beliefs about how our bodies should move, and not enough varied exercise are at the root of these problems.

In this short program, you will be guided through neuro-physical movement variations that help your body to organize itself efficiently and reconnect with the forces of the earth. The result is a relaxed, supple, and strong back, more emotional calm, better sleep, and a healthy energy balance.

All you need is a mat and a big towel or blanket. You will be lying on the ground (your mat) as my voice will guide you through a journey inward, sensing yourself and getting to know yourself from within through movement, attention, curiosity, and playfulness.

The Feldenkrais method is a neuro-physical experiential and holistic learning method, that helps you to move out of limiting emotional, mental, and physical habits while creating new patterns for moving through life effortlessly and painlessly.

Combining self-awareness, movement, exploration, mindfulness, curiosity, and playfulness, it uses the nervous system’s capacity to endlessly learn, grow and rewire.

The Feldenkrais explorations are suitable for all ages from adolescence. Even if you are in pain you can safely do these little tasters, providing that you can take responsibility for yourself.

Welcome! Before participating please take a moment to read this.

Prepare a quiet and pleasantly warm room where you will not be disturbed. Most sessions are done lying down so the muscles don’t have to work as hard.
Pain is a signal from your body that you have something to change in the way you move, stand or sit. If you feel pain adjust the movement, do it even smaller or even in your mind. Make yourself even more comfortable with pillows, rolls of blankets, a softer surface. Or contact me for a free 15-minute zoom consultation.
Move as small and slowly as possible so that you learn to perceive more and observe more subtly how you move, how your body wants to and can move, and how certain emotional patterns create muscle tension patterns.
Step into the session with a ‘Beginners mind’: an open, curious and inquisitive mindset towards your movement and play with the movement variations. Your body is your play-date.
Practice not judging. Nothing is wrong or right. It is a journey of discovery to where you are now and what else is possible. In these sessions, you will be consciously not corrected from the outside, by me, so that you can listen to your body with your full attention, learn about your emotional, physical, and mental preferences and habits, your own wisdom, and your body’s unique instruction manual.

Lesson 1

Rocking with the push and pull of mother earth

Reconnect with the push and pull of earth; our life-force energy through gentle, playful rhythmic Feldenkrais explorations. This is a lovely and effective way for resetting muscular tension patterns in your back, chest, pelvis, and neck. And a powerful way to boost your energy.

All you need is a mat. You will be lying on the ground (your mat) as my voice will guide you through a journey inward, sensing yourself and getting to know yourself from within through movement, attention, curiosity, and playfulness.

Audio: exploration

Lesson 2

The dynamism of giving and receiving

For this session, you need a mat and a blanket or towel:

Preparation:

Fold your towel or blanket in half once along its length. Then fold it across the width. Now roll the towel/blanket into a tight roller that is at least 1 meter long and up to 12 cm in diameter. You want to be able to lie on it with the entire left/right side of your trunk. In the video below I show how to do it.

Audio exploration