Feldenkrais Training: Biel-Neuchatel 2005
 
3 Vineyard
Dartington
TOTNES
TQ9 6HW
• 01803 868 766 or 07989 394 904
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• www.lifeworks4.me.uk

Classes: Tuesdays evenings and Wednesday mornings and evenings, in Dartington
Workshops: Usually two per month
Individual lessons: Anytime
 
Practice:
I run a full time practice, with clients who are mainly professional people of all ages and abilities. The youngest person I work with started at five months old, the eldest eighty-eight, and I also sometimes work with horses and dogs.
 
Biography:
I enjoy helping people to find out how to meet the challenges of pain, injury and disease, and of life in general. I help people to use the learning process we will enter to get in touch with what really inspires them — and what might stand in the way for them. Our process aims toward helping them realize their own aspirations and enable them to move toward fulfillment of their potential as human beings.  My current interests and training studies lie in discovering how somatic methods such as the Feldenkrais Method can help people heal emotional trauma.
 
My journey with the Feldenkrais Method began in 1995 in India. I had gone there with the idea of studying with some of the great yogis and becoming a yoga teacher. Within 2 weeks of my arrival, however, I was introduced the work of Dr Feldenkrais, and to an enlightened spiritual master, which little did I realize would alter the course of my life.
 
I suffered from chronic neck and back pain at the time, and my teacher showed one simple lesson that I could do alone, which helped me so much I wanted to train in the method - and here I am, several years later ...
 
  I grew up in Cornwall, and as a youngster, I rode horses a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I fell off a lot (and was proud of it at the time) — and the resulting injuries crept up on me as I got older. At first, I ran, I weight-lifted, I stretched — anything physical to keep the stiffness and soreness at bay — but it was with great relief that I found the gentle, self-respecting way of Feldenkrais. I learned that there were realms of wisdom in my body/mind that I could tap into and heal (and, by the way, I've had the X-rays, my neck now only shows normal-for-my-age wear-and-tear).
 
My other qualifications include the British Horse Society Assistant Instructor certificate; National Diploma in Business Studies, and I worked for ten years, mostly in the yachting business, as a chef. I have over thirty thousand miles at sea.
 
  I enjoy Tai Chi, Chi Kung and ShinTaiDo as well as Yoga, swimming, meditation and a form of dance meditation called Latihan — and just plain and simple walking, every day if I can. I find that the practice of simply being present, in myself is the key to having the best quality of life — and I enjoy helping others discover this for themselves too. I find working with body movement and function a powerful, rich and fundamental medium.