Scott Clark

Feldenkrais Method ®
For the last thirty years I have been working with movement – as a medium for my own self-exploration and expression, and as a way of reaching other people in their journey. I started by studying dance as an art form, and by teaching and performing, but one of my first colleagues helped me to realize that the real dance and the real art form consists in living every day. So often, this is an impossible ideal: to allow ordinary things to be comfortable and cheerful is hard enough, without mentioning beauty, growth, and transcendence. Fortunately the dance community was a crossroads for many ‘alternative’ approaches, and I studied Alexander, Rolfing, Laban and many other methods before encountering Feldenkrais fifteen years ago. For me, Feldenkrais was a keystone that helped everything else make sense, and I enrolled on the first UK training in 1987. Since then I have been working with dancers and musicians, with people with severe pain or disability, but especially with ordinary people who want to live and grow.

This can happen either through classes and workshops in Awareness Through Movement or through individual sessions of Functional Integration. In the classes, I guide the group – mostly verbally, occasionally by touch – through a progression of small, gentle movements that release the innate knowledge of the body and help to reconcile that with our conscious expectations. Each class is different, exploring some particular movement theme or region of the body. In the individual sessions, my guidance is primarily through touch, but a touch that is gentle enough to blend with your own postural reflexes in order to shape and recombine them. Because it is individual, it is entirely personal, exploring the ingredients of your own conscious and unconscious movement without imposing any extraneous system or design. the result is a re-connecting: of the parts of the body, of separated thoughts and feelings, into one coordinated unity.

Feldenkrais Method® is the registered trademark of the Feldenkrais Guild UK Ltd
INTRODUCTIONS

Trial classes available Tues & Wed


WEEKLY ONGOING GROUPS 2008/2009

Tues evenings

23 September – 9 December 08

13 January – 31 March 09

5 May – 21 July 09


Wed evenings,

24 September – 10 December 08

14 January – 1 Apr 09

6 May – 22 July 09


WORKSHOPS 2008/2009

25 Oct 08

22 Nov 08

31 Jan 09

14 Mar 09

9 May 09

20 June 09



INDIVIDUAL WORK

Wednesdays and Thursdays
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