International Feldenkrais Week
6-13 May, 2026
Discover The Feldenkrais Method with a week of free lessons and special offers on workshops across the UK
During International Feldenkrais Week, you’re invited to explore a gentle, awareness-based approach to movement — at your own pace, in your own time.
- Daily free audio lessons from experienced teachers (new lessons added daily between 7-12 May)
- Free & reduced cost Introductory workshops (find your nearest class below!)
- A simple way to improve movement, posture and ease (learn more about Feldenkrais & benefits)
Free daily series of Audio lessons
This year’s theme is ‘Unpacking Posture’. Each day, we will share a guided Awareness Through Movement® recording. These lessons are easy to follow, suitable for all levels and designed to be done at home. They offer a practical introduction to the Feldenkrais Method and help you begin to notice how you move.
Look out for articles and other events about International Feldenkrais Week on the Guild’s Facebook and Instagram pages.
Workshops
During this week Feldenkrais UK is also sponsoring practitioners who are offering free or reduced cost Introductory Feldenkrais workshops. These will be taking place in different locations around the country, as well as online. Everyone is welcome!
Browse a list of locations and times for the workshops being run across the country, and join in.
Click on the location to see classes, and the title of the class to see further details.
Getting Grounded From The Feet Up with Jane Feinmann
Friday 8 May, 11am-12.30pm | £5
Community Association of West Hampstead (CAWH), Dornfell St, London NW6 1QN
Feldenkrais ATM (group classes)
Contact jane.feldenkraisnw6@gmail.com / 07949 726527
Further information: janefeinmann.com
‘Effortless Posture – Upright with Ease’ with Sabine Risk
Saturday 9 May, 9.30am-12.30pm | St. Philip’s Parish Centre, Gravel Hill, London N33RJ | £15
Being upright can be hard work, even if you don’t have “bad posture”. Our muscles tense to hold us up in our own unique way. We tire and may want to sit or lie down as our back or neck starts to hurt. Everyday tasks may become real chores.
This Feldenkrais workshop will help create a more efficient bodily organization, reducing the effort required of your muscles by having your skeleton carry your weight. Being upright can then become almost effortless, freeing up energy and creating a sense of lightness
Contact sabine@wellandaware.co.uk / 07785 982223 to book
Further information: www.wellandaware.co.uk
‘Feldenkrais and Posture – A Feldenkrais workshop for stroke sufferers’ with Alex Frazier
Wednesday 13 May, 10.30-11.30am | 22 Winkfield Road, London N22 5RP | £10
The Feldenkrais Workshop on Wednesday 13 May at 10:30am is for stroke sufferers to help with posture and movement. The Feldenkrais Method helps stroke sufferers regain function by using gentle, mindful movement to leverage neuroplasticity, allowing the brain to reorganize and form new neural connections. It improves mobility, balance, and coordination by reducing reliance on the unaffected side, easing spasticity, and creating more efficient, painless movement pattern.
Contact alexandriafrazier@gmail.com / 07714 096 475 to book
‘What is Good Posture’ with Cath Greenwood
Sunday 10 May, 10am-12pm | ZenYoga, 24a Camberwell Grove, London SE5 8RE | £10/6
Exploring what good posture means to us – sensing and noticing how we organise ourselves in standing, sitting and in movement. Discovering posture as a dynamic process, letting go of unnecessary effort and moving with more ease and comfort.
Contact cathfeldenkrais@gmail.com to book
Further information: cathfeldenkrais.com
‘Dynamic posture: Learn to sit and stand with ease’ with Anne Taylor
Saturday 16 May, 1-3pm | Lee Complementary Health Centre, Manor Lane, SE12 | £10
A two-hour introduction to the Feldenkrais Method and how moving with awareness can improve balance and posture and help you navigate life more easily.
Contact annetaylor.writer@gmail.com / 07816 420102 to book
‘Unpacking Posture: Front and back in harmony, for effortless posture’ with Ana Stojadinovic and Ram Yajnik
Saturday 9 May, 10.30am-12pm and 12.15-1.45pm | Suggested donation £10 per session
Primrose Hill Community Association, 29 Hopkinson’s Place, off Fitzroy Road, London NW1 8TN
An introduction to the method and the person, Dr Moshe Feldenkrais, followed by an ATM on the theme of dynamic reciprocal relationship between flexors and extensors, which when well organised allows for effortless functional movement and sense of ease when upright.
Contact feldenkraiswithana@gmail.com or see https://www.feldenkraiswithana.com/ to book
International Feldenkrais Week Special Event with Jackie Adkins, Heather Stone and Ed Bartram
Thursday 7 May, 9.30am-5pm | RISE, Whittox Lane, Frome, Somerset, BA11 3BY | Free
Local practitioners Jackie Adkins, Ed Bartram and Heather Stone host a free celebratory event for IFW in Frome, featuring one-to-one tasters and group classes, on the theme of Unpacking Posture. The timetable is as follows:
- 9.30am-12.00: One-to-one tasters, bookable in half hour slots
- 1-5pm: Three group classes at 2pm, 3pm, 4pm
Contact adkins.jackie@gmail.com / 07627 805138 or book here
‘Posture that Feels Good’ with Judit Meixner
Sunday 10 May, 10am-1pm | Ashprington Village Hall, Ashprington, Totnes, TQ9 7UL | £35
Do you think that if you could improve or correct your posture, your neck or back pain might disappear – or your shoulders might feel less tight? That if you could just sit or stand the “right” way, you would feel comfortable and pain-free?
Many of us have been taught to think about posture in this way. But people with a seemingly “perfect” posture can still experience pain, tension and stiffness. If you try to improve your posture by pulling your shoulders back, straightening your spine, tightening your stomach or clenching your buttocks, you may come close to a shape of an anatomy book illustration – but probably not to a feeling of comfort, ease or aliveness in your body.
Moshe Feldenkrais introduced the term “acture” – to describe posture in action – a dynamic, responsive way of organising ourselves for movement. Good “acture” allows us to move in any direction without prior preparation, with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, and more freedom to adapt.
In this workshop, we will explore gentle movement lessons with a hint of playfulness and a generous amount of mindfulness to help you discover a posture that feels more easeful, comfortable, supported and alive.
Contact juditmxnr@gmail.com / 07585 447450 to book
Further information: juditmeixner.com
Naturality Open Day – Feldenkrais with Ian Brener
Sunday 10 May, 11am-4pm | FREE
Naturality Wellness Centre, 42 Lower King’s Road, Berkhamsted HP4 2AA
Tasters one to one sessions and short experiential talks.
Contact ianbmovement@gmail.com / 07977 222623
Further information: https://feldenkrais.ianbrener.com/
Unpacking Posture: From the Feet Upwards with Tina Tribe
Saturday 9 May, 2-5.15pm | Cambridgeshire Music, New School Road, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9LL | £10
Standing upright is uniquely human. It takes anything from 9 to 15 months to learn how to stand upright without support. Then we tend to take standing for granted.
In standing, we want to look for a dynamic posture – one from which we can move in any direction without the need for preparatory adjustments. To achieve this, the extensor and flexor muscles need to work in co-ordination and harmony together.
Throughout a lifetime, often starting from a very young age, a slightly more flexed, rounded posture often takes over as the flexor muscles pull us a little bit down – something which comes from too much sitting, looking at screens, stress, tiredness. Movement in the ribs, spine, hips & pelvis can reduce, often without us knowing it.
This workshop will look at how we can counteract this, from the feet to the head, begin to engage the extensors and bring movement back to areas which might be a bit sleepy. The result will be a better, dynamic posture and a freeing up of joints.
Contact tina@tinatribe.co.uk / 07746 964151 / see www.tinatribe.co.uk
Stable Posture & Life Balance: Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method® with Matthias Wurz
Saturday 9 May, 1-3pm | £15
Christ Church – The Jubilee Room, Church Road, Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton, WV6 8NQ
The workshops offer a hands-on introduction to the Feldenkrais Method®, designed for senior citizens that face challenges in their everyday balance or those who would like to improve mobility. The workshop includes a short seated ATM as well as short FI lessons with up to four participants. Please get in touch if you would like to receive an FI as part of the workshop.
Contact matthias.wurz@gmail.com / 07852 439750
Standing on Your own Feet: Improve Your Posture and Balance with the Feldenkrais Method® with Matthias Wurz
Tuesday 12 May, 1-3pm | £15
Wolverhampton Arts Centre, Room 3 (Studio Block, 1st Floor), Dunkley Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 4AN
The workshops offer a hands-on introduction to the Feldenkrais Method®, specifically designed for people who are standing for a significant part of their work; or those who would like to improve their standing posture. The workshop includes a short ATM as well as short FI lessons with up to four participants. Please get in touch if you would like to receive an FI as part of the workshop.
Contact matthias.wurz@gmail.com / 07852 439750
‘Posture Unpacked’ with Paul Wooding
Saturday 9 May, 2-5pm | Upton Village Hall, Chester
Donation Based (suggested £10 minimum)
This workshop will ‘unpack’ what lies behind the idea of ‘perfect posture’ and how we uniquely approach the subject in the Feldenkrais Method. We will use three ATM practices, as well as discussion, to clarify what we mean when we say ‘good posture’.
Contact movementmatters65@gmail.com / 0151 2808272 to book
Unpacking posture: early morning mini sessions, with Caroline Scott
6, 7, 11 & 12 May, 8.30-8.50am | Wainsgate Chapel, Wainsgate Lane, Old Town, Hebden Bridge HX7 8SU
Suggested donation to Wainsgate Chapel £2/3 per session
Unpacking posture: sitting, standing and lying down. Caroline Scott invites you to a series of 4 short early morning taster sessions 8.30-8.50am on a drop in basis at Wainsgate Chapel, Wainsgate Lane, Old Town, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8SU. Gentle little movement puzzles inviting you to land in yourself with no straining, no stretching just ease & flow. They are a great way to get your creative juices primed for Open Practice or Open Drawing 9-10am. You can come to one or all sessions. You don’t have to stay for Open Practice/Drawing but it’d be a shame not to!!
Contact feldenkraisyorkshire@gmail.com (but no need to book – just turn up!)
‘Unpacking Posture’ with Susie Kelly
Saturday 9 May, 10am-1pm | £15
Wight Wellbeing Collective, Unit C Shepards Wharf, Medina Road, Cowes PO31 7JT
The workshop will consist of a selection of Awareness Through Movement lessons alongside discussions to help you experience your own ‘potent self’. We’ll even provide tea and biscuits!
Contact susie@movebreathefeel.uk / 07932 786866 to book
Further information at movebreathefeel.uk/workshops
‘Introduction to The Feldenkrais Method – ideas to expand your idea of yourself‘ with Alan Caig Wilson and Darren Forbes-Kindlen
Saturday 9 May, 10am-4pm | Studio 602, St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh EH7 6AE
Free / pay what you can
An in-person introduction to gentle but powerful ways to develop a richer relationship with your moving self. A day of group classes, short individual hands-on sessions and an introduction to the ideas behind The Feldenkrais Method, led by Scotland-based practitioners.
Contact freedomtomove@outlook.com / 07782 190615
‘Effortless Posture’ with Dr Lesley Manyweathers
Wednesday 6 May, 5.30-6.45pm | Online | £5
“A posture is not a static thing” – Moshe Feldenkrais
Many people want to “improve their posture” but struggle to achieve and maintain this version of themselves. To celebrate IFW bring your curiosity and join Lesley who will take you on a voyage of discovery live on zoom from the comfort of your own home, to unpack the many moving parts that can take you from effortful straightness to easy uprightness.
Contact Lesley@effortlessmovement.co.uk to book
Further information: https://effortlessmovement.co.uk/in-person-workshops
“Human Rainbow” workshop, celebrating the birthday, work and life of Moshe Feldenkrais
With Gravity & Grace (Nigel Atkinson)
Saturday 9 May, 10.30am | Online | Suggested payment £20-30 (or whatever you can afford)
Two lessons that explore the relationship of rotation of the pelvis and the shoulder girdle. A perfect antidote for an age of high screen time and stiff shoulders.The online workshop will be roughly 2 hours and 30 minutes, with a short break between lessons and time to share thoughts.
Contact: nigel.gravityandgrace@gmail.com
Photo by Xavi De Santos