move . think . grow
individual sessions
What to expect?
One to one sessions are built around you: your specific needs, your requests.
For some: that’s pain, stiffness, tension, problems with restricted movement or balance. For others, there’s a desire to hone their techniques, whether for music, acting, dance or sport. Others simply want better posture or to walk in a different way.
There won’t be any need to remove your clothing, but i will be interested in observing you stand and move without your shoes. Often a lesson starts with looking at you in motion: what’s easy, what’s difficult.
We won’t just concentrate on the problem, but look for creative solutions to the problem, by involving more of you. We’re looking for transformation and learning, rather than a sticking plaster.
Often that means starting with what is working well, where your skeleton is free to move, in order to encourage the sensory-motor part of the brain which is in charge of healthy movement and co-ordination to come into the picture.
What's it like to work with me?
Listen to Caroline, a client:
hands on
Most of the lesson is taught through touch. We start from what is working well, so you can sense how you can already move with ease, and to encourage a sense of safety- from strength, round to weakness if you like.
This agreeing, and acceptance of the way you are, on a very fundamental level of touch, is unique to the Feldenkrais Method, and it’s part of why these gentle movements can be so profound.
online 1 to 1:
For those of you who can’t get to me in person, you can learn with me remotely. We’ll work together in a combination of directed movement and self-touch.
These sessions are very effective. I have worked with many people successfully over the past year, on a whole range of issues- pain, anxiety, resolving old trauma to name a few.
however you work with me
I will use my expertise to help you learn which movement or thinking habits are holding you back, or causing pain.
You’ll discover how to let go of unconstructive movement patterns, and build more useful ones in their place.
As you feel more integrated. (whole or complete) you will feel more relaxed, move with more ease, and most find they increase a deep confidence in their potential to improve, and how they meet change.
Sessions last an hour. Please wear loose, warm clothes that allow easy movement.
Would you like to chat, to see if we would be a good fit to work together?
Let me have your number, and some times to reach you, and I’ll call you back.
testimonials
Emma said she could feel the sound of the cello through my body when I played, like a tuning fork, and when she made some subtle movements to my spine to release areas of tightness, the sound of my cello increased as my body vibrated even more freely.’
I still connect with the feeling of fluidity I gained in those few lessons with Emma..
He enjoyed their sessions together, in which they explored the connections between the feet, knees, hips and back in walking.
Emma devised child-friendly games for homework and by the end of 8 sessions he was walking more with his heels and whole foot touching the ground, and was aware of the turnout of his hips. Emma had an easy rapport with both of my children, and I felt very much at ease with her working with him. It is clear she has been working with children for many years.
Her sessions have turned my playing around. I cannot recommend her highly enough. Emma is patient and thoughtful, and the results were immediate - always gratifying - and, more importantly, lasting.
As an unexpected bonus the lingering back pain I’ve suffered since breaking my collar bone several years ago has completely disappeared.
I particularly recommend it to people with chronic pain because of repeatedly sitting, standing, working, playing an instrument etc. in a bad postural position and Emma was very empathic, helpful and clear in her explanations.
I have been comfortable ever since!
As a practitioner, Emma is superb and I consider myself very lucky to have found her.
I’ve changed the way I work on my playing as a result of this journey, and I can feel the effects of everything I have done with Emma permeating with gentleness and loving care into every corner of my life.
The one-to-one lessons were brilliant, I quickly became aware of things I do with my body that I had never noticed before.
It made a massive difference to my technique and my ability to sing the way I want to sing. Emma is an excellent communicator – down-to-earth and understanding – I feel in very safe hands with her, not least that as a performing musician herself, she is “one of us”.
I reached a point where I knew I needed to change my approach and tackle the problem from the root, not the symptoms.
I was amazed by how just after the first session my arms and back felt so different. It was like all the joints (specially shoulder/neck) were in the right place, arms nicely hanging on the sides of my body , and I felt refreshed and extremely present..
She offered me an amazing Feldenkrais session and next day I was rehearsing many hours without a hint of pain, a real miracle! Thank you, dear Emma, you are a true magician with golden hands!
