Welcome to zoom classes with Zoe
Previous classes
January: A strong back
32 Connect your hips to your spine
118 Mobilize the pelvis to carry the legs
367 Basic twisting #2
35 Getting to know the hip joints
February: The body pattern of anxiety (breathing)
461 Breathing rhythmically #1
462 Breathing rhythmically #2, left side
264 Expand the lobes of the lungs
262 Abdominal breathing
March: The upper back and shoulders part 1
58 Arms in a hoop to free the neck
49 Hoop arms with pelvis (holding a beach ball)
338 Gentle folding to multiply choices
200 Left shoulder reintegration
April: The upper back and shoulders part 2
197, 198, Shoulder plunking 1 & 2
15 Rolling arms, tilting legs
409 Lengthen spine, roll arms overhead
May: Alternating the breath and the jaw
278 Full mobility of the diaphragm, introduction to seesaw breathing
251 Pelvis and jaw part 1 & 2
274 Welding the breath, freeing the upper ribs
246, 247 Jaw integrates the whole self
June: Lessons that lengthen
408 Distancing arms, one up, one down
43 Tilt knees, lengthen arms, arms in triangle
136 Side bend for a flexible spine, lengthen each side
146, 147 Lengthening and expanding, connecting top and bottom
July: Yummy hip joint lessons
29 Better use of the hip joints, developmental path of the hips
34 Theme and variation on right hip joint
122 Hip forward and back with breath
125 Rolling head, coordinating hips
About Awareness Through Movement® classes
In Awareness Through Movement® you learn how to move with minimum effort and maximum ease, not through muscular strength, but through increased awareness of how the body works.
Lying on the floor you are directed through a series of gentle, non-invasive movements that grow increasingly complex.
At the same time you are asked to pay attention to specific sensory feedback. The teacher instructs you on how to adjust the direction, speed, timing, and force of each movement as the lesson continues.
Often the lessons are like puzzles in which you figure out how to move around fixed constraints. This puzzle-like situation prompts the nervous system to activate a different muscle pattern than you usually use.
As a result, at the end of a lesson habitual muscle tension releases. You sense the stability of a balanced skeleton. Your breathing is freer, walking lighter, and eyes clearer. Your kinesthetic perception enhanced, you can move in ways that you thought were restricted.
“Zoe has experience, clarity, and gentleness. I pick up from her lessons how much Feldenkrais means to her, and that gives her lessons extra meaning to me. Zoe’s lessons have had a huge impact on me physically. They re-start my whole state and make me more receptive and awake at all levels. These lessons help me neutralize stress, fill me with a true inner calm, and make me ready to embrace life with optimism. ”
“I have done yoga and different sports from an early age, but after just a few Feldenkrais lessons I felt like I was walking on air. Quite a while ago, I found Zoe’s lessons and have been doing them regularly. Recently, I did the posture and the breathing lessons and I feel more and more relaxed, and I have more understanding of myself and others.
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