Elisabeth is an internationally certified Feldenkrais Practitioner.

She’s born in Munich, has worked in many different professions, loves dancing and looks back on many years of living with her family in foreign countries like Egypt and Bulgaria. For many years live circumstances had not been in favour of her getting to be a Feldenkrais Practitioner, but no she is one and currently she works and lives with her husband in Japan.

In her way of teaching the Feldenkrais Method, all these life experiences flow together.

website: feldiework.com

mail: elisabeth.wetzellgmx.net

from 7:00 talk about when was my first experience of FK lessons

14:00 we talk about what changed, after FK became part of my life

about 29:00 talk about life in Japan

37:45 what is unique about my lessons

Originally a professional ballet dancer, Kathryn was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1968 and came to Europe as such in 1987. She worked with Ismael Ivo in Vienna and spent some years with Tanz Theater Hamburg, but after the experience she had in her first Feldenkrais Workshop - which she shares with us in this podcast interview - she immediately knew that she had found her true calling.

From 1995-1999 she participated in her first Feldenkrais Training, Ubbergen 6, taught by Mia Segal. She has been a passionate and dedicated Feldenkrais teacher ever since and works extensively in her own practice in Hamburg, as well as internationally as an Assistant within Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs.

Kathryn is also active in the German guild and believes service to the community to be an essential part of professional practice. With over 20 years of experience, Kathryn is committed to contributing to and supporting processes of reflection and development for students, teachers, graduates and Trainings in an international, modern day context.

But most of all, she is passionate about learning and movement, and fascinated by the way this wonderful method can be used as a means for growth and personal development. Kathryn hopes to inspire with her authenticity and enthusiasm.

Find out more about classes, lessons and public workshops with Kathryn, as well as Advanced Trainings and other offers for Feldenkrais practitioners here:

https://feldenkrais-humecook.de/en/

https://www.instagram.com/feldenkrais.kathryn.humecook/

00:00 Introduction

00:54 Talking about my beginnings as a ballet dancer in Australia

02:45 How I ended up in Hamburg

06:10 How personal connections influence the path of our lives

06:49 How I came to participate in my first Feldenkrais Workshop

07:59 About my early definitions of myself as a dancer vs. as a teacher

10:07 The specific realisation I had in that first Feldenkrais workshop

13:54 What the Feldenkrais Method means to me personally

16:55 Attempting to "correct" onesself vs. noticing how to stop "disturbing" onesself

19:30 My first experience of a Functional Integration lesson

23:05 About my first Training with Mia Segal

26:41 My experience of other Trainings during the so-called crossover process

30:28 Which factors might play a role when chosing a Feldenkrais Training to join?

33:39 The importance I place on experiencing lots of different Trainers and Trainings

40:49 My involvement in voluntary work for the Feldenkrais Community

46:22 How my passion for facilitating learning has led me to be involved in Teacher Trainings

51:16 About teaching Advanced Trainings and an upcoming project with colleague Jaime Polanco

56:40 Creating opportunities for Feldenkrais teachers to experience "real life conditions"

01:00:35 About adapting our understanding to the individual needs of a person

01:03:32 "Unravelling" things for the students and some Infos about the workshop in Madrid

01:04:26 Current offers for the public, changes since covid

01:08:26 Functional Integration lessons in Hamburg

01:09:44 Ways to connect with me

01:10:55 About the podcast

Stacy Barrows is a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner, Doctor of Physical Therapy, and nationally certified Pilates teacher. She is the inventor of the patented SMARTROLLER® somatic tools specifically designed to heighten kinesthetic awareness and is the author of SMARTROLLER GUIDE TO OPTIMAL MOVEMENT, 2nd ed. Stacy owns Smart Somatic Solutions, PT, Inc. an integrative private practice in West Los Angeles. She teaches Awareness Through Movement® classes and workshops at Santa Monica Yoga, UCLA Osher, and has taught internationally to health and fitness professionals. Stacy contributed to THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD book and has always found passion in guiding her clients to learn through movement.

https://linktr.ee/smartroller

https://www.smartroller.net

Reimond ::: Begeisterter Feldenkrais Lehrer mit 74 Jahren by Christina Petersen

Christina Clar studied sculpture and works in the fields of performance, events, installations and urban interventions. She buids spaces with sound and images, using architecture, physical interventions, poetry, and media to blur the boundaries between projected and so-called real images. Collaboration is an essential part of her work: she has worked with artists, performers, composers, musicians, and architects in the fields of stage design, music, performance, and audio/video at Europe's major opera houses as well as alternative venues, wastelands, and the countryside.

The confrontation with her own illness as well as caring for her mother suffering from cancer developed her understanding of body and mind as a path of learning. Further trainings include Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, Alexander Technique, the Gindberg Method and systemic constellations. Parallel to her artistic work she develops music and movement workshops with young people and persons with disabilities in Europe and Australia and follows the training to become a Feldenkrais practicioner.

http://christinaclar.net

Francie White achieved her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma in 1992. Living in her head took a toll on her body. She had also experienced early childhood trauma.

She began working with a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Dr. Leah Berne, in 2009 who turned out to be a retired Jungian analyst. She said that the body holds trauma.

Francie spent seven years working with Dr. Berne and started the Feldenkrais training in 2015 in Eugene, Oregon. She finished in 2018 and immediately began training in Somatic Experiencing® from the work of Peter Levine. She finished that training in 2021.

She is also a certified practitioner of HeartMath®. Her greatest strength in her practice is the integrative nature of her training and experience.

She is currently in private practice in Eugene, Oregon and gives online movement classes and workshops on resolving trauma.

You can find her on Facebook, Francie White, GCFP.

Her website is https://integratedselfeugene.com

You can contact her at [email protected]

- Bewegungsreichtum fließend durch das gesamte Selbst entdecken

- Unbewegliche oder blockierte Bereiche in den Bewegungsfluss zurück führen

- Anhaltend angespannte Bereiche entdecken und lösen

Die erste Stunde aus der Serie "Alle guten Dinge sind DREI"

Corinna Eikmeier ist seit 2020 Professorin für Instrumental- und Gesangspädagogin an der Musikhochschule Lübeck. Sie studierte Violoncello und Improvisation und unterrichtete Feldenkrais über 20 Jahre an der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Sie erforscht die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Musizierpraxis – im Speziellen der Improvisation und der Feldenkrais-Methode. Dazu veröffentlichte sie u.a. ihre Dissertation „Bewegungsqualität und Musizierpraxis. Zum Verhältnis von Feldenkrais-Methode und musikalischer Improvisation“. Weitere Infos unter www.corinna-eikmeier.de

Erin Finkelstein is a clarinetist with Urban Nocturnes and the Carmel Bach Festival. Erin is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner with over 14 years experience helping people from all walks of life live a more satisfying and vibrant life, in person and on zoom!

erinfinkelstein.com

https://erinfinkelstein.com/online-somatic-academy

1:40 How I got into Feldenkrais, and TMJ

7:40 Why we keep studying Feldenkrais

10:00 Physical and mental considerations and shifts

11:20 Shoulders and Breathing, how to feel upper rib functioning

13:00 Giving the authority back to the self, mini Pelvis lesson

16:50 Psychological considerations of the method and music - change the boy to change the mind

21:14 "The right way" to learn, structure, and process of learning to access the older brain

23:40 Body Awareness, Sensorial Awareness and musical Phrasing

28:03 Group lessons and constraints in lessons

29:40 "Magical" hands-on lessons

34:44 What changed in me after my training

39:50 Having choices, finding flexibility

43:06 Habits

45:38 Pandemic and online group classes

48:00 Hive Healing House Acupuncture and New Office

53:47 The art of taking time off for ease in learning

57:00 Over practicing and Feldenkrais - what is missing in Music Education

107:27 Piano lessons and eye movements in today's world

Dr. Rachel White Galvin is a freelance musician and movement maven. She has been playing viola and violin professionally for over 20 years. She studied with Helen Callus at UC: Santa Barbara where she received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Viola Performance.

Rachel’s true passion is musician’s health and fitness. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Method Practitioner as well as a former Level 2 CrossFit Trainer. She also holds certifications from USA Weightlifting, Foundation Training, and Functional Movement Systems. For much of her career, she struggled with playing-related repetitive stress injuries, but found no real help from the many medical professionals she consulted. In frustration, she turned to rehabilitating herself through movement and exercise. Her experience with injury, and her passions for movement and music align in her practice of helping musicians who are in pain.

mindfeltmethods.com