Jackie Adkins

Practice:

I work with all kinds of people. Very often people come for individual sessions or to classes who have persistent aches or pain - sometimes recovering from injury. Some regular class participants want to maintain vitality as they age, others are living with chronic health conditions and appreciate the gentleness of the Method and the convenience of working online. Teachers of pilates or yoga often come to workshops to learn more about other approaches to movement.

Biography:

My background is in dance. Having learned ballet from a young age, I trained in contemporary dance, going on to do BA (hons) Related Arts. Having completed an MA in Dance Studies at Surrey University I went on to study with many pioneering New Dance teachers in the '80s and '90s, specialising in Contact Improvisation, which I taught extensively in London in the 1990s. My interest in learning about various movement approaches also led me to study Body-Mind Centering and to practice Pilates and Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms.

Following debilitating back pain in my 30s I had to stop dancing and discovered the Feldenkrais Method, enrolling on a professional training. Half way through my 4 year training my back pain disappeared and in time I found a way back to dancing. Since graduating as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2002 I have taught in London, mainly in Adult Education and also in Higher Education, teaching dance students.

In 2004 I moved to North East Scotland where I continued my Feldenkrais practice until I came to Frome, Somerset in 2014. I teach weekly online Feldenkrais classes as well as in-person classes in Frome. I was an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University since 2015-2022, where I taught movement skills for BA Acting students.