Feldenkrais Experienced Course: The Dancers Series
Feldenkrais is an extremely gentle movement based training that teaches you how to heighten your ability to sense and feel yourself while you are moving while improving your freedom and range of movement in all planes of action.
Please note, these lessons are audio lessons only.
The Feldenkrais Method is more like a movement based guided meditation rather than an exercise class.
Movement is a fundamental part of all human behaviour and endeavour. When you improve the way that you move and you learn to move with greater awareness and skill, you also improve the way that you feel, sense and think.
As with any pattern of action, thinking or feeling, when you start to recognize the habitual and learn something new, you create the opportunity for growth, awareness and new possibility in all aspects of your life.
Practicing the Feldenkrais Method can have many therapeutic benefits, hone specialised physical skills and support creative expression.
This third collection of lessons is for people who have done my introductory and intermediate courses. It is also for people who already have some experience with the Fedenkrais Method or another somatic based movement practice.
These lessons have been adapted from a series that was originally designed for and taught to people training to be professional dancers. The lessons are recorded live in the dance studio. You do not have to have the physical skill of a trained dancer to benefit and learn from these lessons.
The lessons are recorded live in the dance studio and are provided as an audio lesson without any visual demonstration. The lessons should be undertaken as described on the audio track.
Lesson 1: Sitting Towards The Heels
In this lesson you will discover how to find freedom of movement within a seemingly impossible constraint.
Recorded live in the dance studio, this lesson is suitable for any level of movement expertise.
It is done on your hands and knees and takes 39 minutes.
Lesson 2: Baby Alligator
In this Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson you will learn how to increase the strength and power of your trunk through the principals of organisation and efficiency.
Recorded live in the dance studio, this lesson is suitable for any level of movement expertise.
It is done lying on your front and takes 48 minutes.
Lesson 3: Flying Mermaid
In this Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson you will learn how to find core strength and control by improved organisation of the trunk in a beautiful rotated position.
Recorded live in the dance studio, this lesson is suitable for any level of movement expertise.
It is done lying on your back and takes 45 minutes.
Lesson 4: Perfecting The Self Image
In this Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson you will gain a clear understanding of the relationship between your head and your pelvis.
Recorded live in the dance studio, this lesson is suitable for any level of movement expertise.
It is done lying on your back and takes 41 minutes.
About Ingrid Weisfelt
Ingrid Weisfelt is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Assistant Trainer. She works as a movement therapist and movement teacher in private practice and at the Victorian College of The Arts School Of Dance, Melbourne University.
Ingrid enjoyed a successful career both in Australia and overseas as a professional dancer. It was a career ending back injury that led her to discover the Feldenkrais Method. She completed her Feldenkrais practitioner training program in 2002, injury and pain free, and returned to the stage for another ten years. Now, having well and truly left the stage behind, Ingrid enjoys working with people from all walks of life to help them rediscover their joy of movement, build their body awareness and increase their movement skills.