how do you organize yourself to respond and be with it? What are your spontaneous tendencies when faced with the challenge of change? Are you a resister, a collapser, an adaptor or something else?

How we build our capacity for the uncertainty and discomfort of change sets us on a track of maturation. What if difficulties were an opportunity for play and experimentation? What if learning was more important than knowing? What if challenge was the nourishment we need to become…

When we are in danger/fear/anxiety the nervous system shifts to the sympathetic state, readying us to flee, fight, freeze, appease or annihilate. When we are at ease in the parasympathetic state our system relaxes into rest and digest. Each inspires a particular quality of breathing, moving, sensing, feeling and thinking.

Do you breathe to meet the moment or does the moment disturb or shape your breath?

How often do you hold your breath? Do you hold your breath in fear or in joy; in sadness or in serenity? Do you hold your breath to get ready or to concentrate? Do you hold your breath when you listen or when you are in pain?

Breathing is both spontaneous and in our control. It is happening all the time without conscious choice, and yet: are you aware of the many habits that perturb your breath? We can hold the breath in play as a child would in a game or while swimming under water to see how far we can go. We can hold our breath to go unnoticed or to demand attention. We can hold our breath in both awe and horror. What would be possible if we mastered our full capacity for breathing? How would our breath shape us? Prepare us? Protect us? Provide for us?

In these 15 Days we will explore movement and breath as research. Diving into the recalibrating relationship between spontaneity and control, to develop embodied agency. How do we take what we are feeling in the moment into play, pleasure, power, choice or defeat, collapse, crash, compulsion? If we continue to improve ourselves individually, will we collectively change the way we interact with one another and communally discover/choose/create a more humane world?

The aim of education should be to help [us] achieve the state of an evolving being.

– Moshe Feldenkrais

Join Kelly and Liz this January to evolve the quality of your life.

HOW
For 15 consecutive weekdays begin or end your day with a 30-45 min Awareness Through Movement Class in the comfort of your own home. Classes are live each morning and recordings are sent out following each class for you to explore again in the evening. 

WHY
Habits of movement are developed over a life time and under stress older, less efficient habits reemerge.  To make sustainable change, our nervous system needs consistent exposure to new sensations, new ideas and new options. Participating in an intensive, regular exploration of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons is an excellent way to experience the truly transformational potential this method has to create major changes in our selves, our thinking, our wellbeing and how we act in the world.

We will need a minimum of 10 participants to hold this series of classes.
INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!!!

EVOLVE YOURSELF!

WHEN
January 6 – 24, 2025 (OFF Saturdays & Sundays)
7:30 -8:00/8:15 a.m. (Central Time USA) MON – THURS
7:30-9 a.m. (Central Time USA) The 1st MONDAY and ALL FRIDAYS 

If this time doesn’t work for you, there will be a link for the recorded lesson available for the duration of the series for you to access when it is convenient for you. 

Our nervous system, as well as our body works to RESTORE equilibrium rather than to keep it

– Moshe Feldenkrais

INTERNET/OTHER NEEDS
You will need access to wifi so you can access ZOOM. This can be on any electronic device. A place to lie down on the floor.

ACCESS
We would like anyone who wants to invest in their well-being and self-care to have access to this opportunity regardless of financial means.

This offering is a self-determined way to invest in this life changing experience.

The fee scale is based on your self-determined access to privilege, social capital and resources. In your self-determination, please consider your position of privilege based on aspects of your personhood that do or do not grant you access to social capital e.g. race, gender, sexual identity, socio-economic status, educational background, able-bodiedness, number of people who rely on your resources, etc.

We realize multiple household members could participate for the price of single admission and ask you to consider the “abundance tier” in this case, should your household be able to afford it.

SELF-CARE INVESTMENT

Abundant Access to Resources: (~$18/class)
$280 paying online
$270 paying cash/check 

Sufficient Access to Resources: (~$14/class)
$218 paying online
$210 paying cash/check 

Limited Access to Resources: (~$7/class)
$114 paying online
$110 paying cash/check 

Scholarship: Contact us for more info.

Pay by credit card HERE (see pricing tiers above)

Please fill out REGISTRATION before you pay.
THANK YOU.

CANCELLATION POLICY 
Cancellations made prior to DEC 30th, 2024 will be refunded minus a 10% administration fee. There will be no refunds after this date.

TEACHERS:
Kelly Feder, GCFT … 314-563-1266

kelly@feldenkraismovementstl.com

Liz Wickhart, GCFT … 202-302-0372

info@lizwickhart.com

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our power to choose…

– Viktor Frankl