Why a workshop?

I love designing — and teaching — Feldenkrais workshops.

That’s because a workshop is the opposite of instantaneous, just-add-water, helpful hint instruction that is incredibly appealing, increasingly popular, and simply inadequate for altering stubborn ingrained habits.

Whether it lasts two days or twenty, I craft a curriculum that allows students to delve deeply and marinate, absorbing and changing incrementally over time. Because you return for the next installment the following day, the capacities you discovered and the things you became aware of have less time to fade. That makes it easier to keep building on what you’ve learned.

Rather than throw together related lessons, I carefully compose a sequence that follows an organic, developmental learning logic. The plan I construct is non-linear; it creates a context for learning, breaks through the blindness of habituation, reveals what is essential to notice and teaches you how to track it, builds up the necessary subskills, approaches the underlying pattern or patterns from multiple perspectives, and, finally, brings it all together at the end.

The trajectory is recursive because you can never know what you missed the first time. Returning to movements and concepts you have already encountered allows you to review what happened, reflect on what you learned, recognize what you missed, fill in the missing pieces, realize the connections, and continue to improve. What I appreciate most about this approach to learning and improvement is it’s inherently kind and generous.

Foam Roller Revolution, Feldenkrais summer camp 2023, puts this approach to work. Meeting for a couple of hours daily over four consecutive days, you learn to use the roller to develop your body awareness, challenge and change enduring habits, and improve how you sit, stand, and move. You’ll also find out how to use your roller to improve after the workshop.

From Thursday to Sunday, August 24 to 27, 2023, I will lead two daily online camp sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon (US Central time). You can attend either because I’ll teach the same two lessons each session. Should you miss a class, you will get access to the recordings after the workshop.

To participate, you will need to have a firm roller that is 3 feet long and 6 inches wide (or approximately one meter long and 15 centimeters wide.) You will find the schedule, get more information, and sign up for the course here.

If you have a question about the course or need assistance enrolling, you can contact the workshop sponsor, Castle Hill Fitness, directly via email: hello@castlehillfitness.com or by phone at +1 (512) 478-4567.

Thanks to Anastasi Siotas for taking the photo above during Tilting the Leg in the Wrong Direction, the workshop we co-taught for a Feldenkrais Guild® of North America annual conference several years ago.

If you are a Feldenkrais teacher or trainee with a professional Become a Better Teacher account on the Mind in Motion Online website, you will find the recordings in the Free Lessons - Original Compositions section of your Digital Library. If you still need to create your free account, please click here.