Every year, our teachers record lessons for International Feldenkrais Week.

The lessons are here to stream (listen to) or download (keep) for your personal use and to share with friends or family. They are not for commercial use – thank you.

International Feldenkrais Week 2024

To mark International Feldenkrais Week and the anniversary of the 120th birthday of Moshe Feldenkrais, we are celebrating with the launch of a series of free online Awareness Through Movement (ATM) recordings.

Six ATM lessons, which fall under the theme of ‘Transitions’, will be available to download here and will be released on a daily basis between 6 and 13 May. Recordings are by teachers Sharon Gimpel, Hannah Wheeler, Josephine Horder, Scott Clark, Shelagh O’Neill and Kristin Fredricksson.

Details of free and low-cost in person classes during IFW 2024 are available here.

Day 2 – ‘Spring Awakening – Sensing Ground Forces’ with Sharon Gimpel

A short lesson exploring the force coming from the ground through the whole body – a world of connection from foot to pelvis through the spine to the head.

Feldenkrais said that babies are already preparing for learning to walk when they are on their backs playing and exploring gravity. I still remember the joy and surprise on my daughter’s face when, as a baby, she pushed her foot into the ground and felt her head moving – that’s the beginning of eventually standing and moving upright. This lesson is a short example of this theme on which Feldenkrais built so many of his lessons.

Sharon Gimpel is a Feldenkrais and somatic movement practitioner and a movement artist based in Stroud.

Day 1 – ‘From Side to Back’ with Shelagh O’Neill

Transitions – from side to back.

Moving from one thing to another – we do it all the time. 

This simple lesson, moving from side to back, can help us understand how clear articulation can make any transition easier. 

Managing transitions is a great test of resilience and flexibility. How quickly do we go? So quickly we can’t really manage the change? (perhaps we’d rather not dwell too long). Or so slowly we forget the intention? And apart from speed, what other factors seem relevant – comfort, attention?

Understanding the range of movement possibilities can help us find the way to do something with clarity and focus.

This lesson is a brief dip into the way the Feldenkrais Method brings freedom of action – not only in physical movement, but the way we think about enacting change.

Shelagh O’Neill is a Feldenkrais Practitioner based in the south-west of England.

Finding a lesson to suit

Scroll down to view the catalogue. Click the small white triangle to choose a year and see a list of lessons. Each lesson has a descriptive name, its duration and the position(s) for doing the lesson. Which do you fancy?

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