Awareness Through Movement ®
Wednesdays, 5:30 - 6:30PM
Upcoming 6-wk SERIES
JUNE 25 – JULY 30
Led by Kelly Feder GCFT (she/her)
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher
The Gift of Awareness Through Movement
Movement is essential in releasing the body patterns of anxiety, stress, grief, worry…
“The human nervous system is eminently suitable for change.”
Moshe Feldenkrais
One of the gifts of a Feldenkrais practice is broadening our capacity to know thyself. To learn, not only better movement, but better ways to think, adapt, create and be with the challenges of living a full life.
There is a synergy when many people simultaneously are connecting deeply with themselves. And in this creative space we breathe more fully, we discover potential that was not previously imaginable, we mitigate fears of helplessness and open doors of resilience and hope we didn’t even know that we had.
Verbally Guided Movement Puzzles
Prioritizing the quality of the movement rather than the achievement of it, students engage their curiosity, let go of will and solve each puzzle in their own timing. The learning is fun, challenging and often times surprising. Slowing down and reducing your efforts, you will investigate and discover unconscious preferences and habits of action. Whether you are interested in getting rid of everyday aches and pains, improving your athletic or artistic performance or coping with a chronic health issue…
FELDENKRAIS WILL EMPOWER YOU to become your own teacher. Students of the Feldenkrais Method are endlessly astounded that doing less can lead to so much more flexibility, power, spontaneity, ease, freedom, ability, joy…..
The Importance of REST
The rest in an ATM lesson is a vital part of the learning process.
PAUSE…..
gives our brain a chance to notice what has changed as a result of the movement experiment.
gives us a chance to refresh our attention.
gives us time to notice our breath and our contact with the floor.
gives us a sense of rejuvenation that inspires renewed interest and curiosity in what we are exploring.
is a vital part of the creative process.
Registration here
Equity Pricing
At Empowered Spaces we value community care, we are committed to making our offerings accessible, and we believe in leveraging our privilege and resources when we can in order to support one another. This Equity Pricing Scale acknowledges that as a result of systemic injustice our ability to pay for services, and access those services, varies. Choosing a rate that is accessible and meaningful is a justice-oriented practice that honors our interconnectedness.
Abundant Access to Resources:
$125 online payment or $120 cash/check
Sufficient Access to Resources:
$93 online payment or $90 cash/check
Limited Access to Resources:
$62 online payment or $60 cash/check
Health and Safety Precautions
We value community care and showing up for one another. Currently: Masks are optional. Please stay home if you have symptoms, test positive, or were exposed to someone with COVID-19. We use a HEPA air purifier in the studio. If anyone would like to participate and would only feel comfortable if everyone is masked, please email Kelly kkcaul@yahoo.com.
Accessibility
The Empowered Spaces studio is located on the ground floor. There is a 12-car parking lot adjacent to the studio & additional free parking on neighborhood streets. Restroom is wheelchair-accessible and ramp-accessible in the main building. Please reach out to Kelly kkcaul@yahoo.com if there is anything more we can do to make our offerings more accessible. Empowered Spaces is committed to accessibility, and strives to be accessible and inclusive of all abilities and all individuals.
Questions?
Contact Kelly kelly@FeldenkraisMovementSTL.com
Meet Kelly
Kelly Feder has always been interested in human potential and how we create and move beyond our limitations. She brings the unfinished, imperfect process of her own transforming self into her teaching, inviting compassion in the midst of uncertainty to linger in and learn from the complexities of the habits that shape us. As a Certified Feldenkrais Teacher of Somatic Education (www.FMASTL.com), she invites people into a process of Awareness Through Movement to recognize our habitual patterns of thinking, moving, sensing and feeling. For 20 years Kelly has facilitated people in this process of self recognition and change so that transformed people can begin to transform culture.