Feldenkrais Professional Training

Events

Creativity and You

Dates: Mar 24, 2012 to Mar 25, 2012

Enhancing your creative and performance skills through physical awareness

Presentated by: Anna Yen

This workshop is for actors, circus performers, musicians, dancers, directors, writers, movement and drama teachers, and anyone seriously interested in the link between physicality and creativity.

The weekend programme will include:

- Movement sequences from the Feldenkrais Method designed to heighten the perception of one’s body and rediscover an organic sense of movement with more ease and less tension.

- Games to sharpen the performer’s sense of relation to self, the space and other performers

- Rhythm as a foundation for creative play

- Performance exercises to explore what it means “to be present” and in “complicity” with other performers.

Anna Yen is a movement teacher, performer, director and Feldenkrais Method ® Practitioner. Anna’s work spans theatre, contemporary circus, physical theatre, street theatre and film. Anna teaches in universities, communities, companies, festivals and schools. She has trained regularly with Monika Pagneux in Europe, whose approach inspires her work. Anna received a Churchill Fellowship in 2002. A highlight of Anna’s work is her acclaimed one-woman show “Chinese Take Away” and its film adaptation, which has taken her to festivals around the world.

Keywords

IMPROVISATION Awareness Presence Complicity Feldenkrais Perception Relationship Performance

March 24 and 25, 2012 9:30am to 4:30pm each day

Metro Arts Building 109 Edward Street, Brisbane

Cost: $185

To register for this event please call Lesley on 0414 850 758 or feldenkrais@feldworks.com

Enquiries about workshop contact: anna@playmoves.org

An initiative of the Feldenkrais Institute of Australia

Chi – Ki – Prana

Dates: Apr 21, 2012 to Apr 22, 2012

Integrating vital life force in your practice and your life!

With Brad Thompson.                Gold Coast venue to be notified.

A workshop for students of martial arts, healing arts, or for those whose goal it is to strengthen internal energy. In China it's called chi...in Japan it's ki....and in India it is known as prana. It is the vital life force that exists in all living things and this program will focus on training the body and mind to unlock its power and to integrate it into one's life. Whether you have experience in any of the Eastern disciplines such as yoga, tai chi, qigong or martial arts is not important, anyone is able to participate and benefit.

Using elements of Feldenkrais Method and insight into Chinese martial practices you will learn to: • change your breathing and develop your breath;

• discover your centre to change and improve your posture in sitting, standing and walking;

• train your mind to be still and meditate;

• learn a simple yet powerful daily training routine that will become the platform for your health, internal strength and physical and mental wellbeing.

About Brad Thompson: Brad has been training and teaching Tai Chi, Qigong and Chinese martial art for over 30 years. He founded the Tai Chi and Qigong Academy in Melbourne in 1987 teaching thousands of students over 10 years in Victoria. He trained extensively in China; Traditional Yang Style tai chi kung fu with Master Fu Sheng Yuan, Chen style Tai Chi with Master Chen Xiao Wang. More recently he has trained in Wu Dao Gong kung fu, Yang Mien kung fu and the Hun Yuan Tai Chi system with Master Brett Wagland his long time friend and "tai chi brother" who is one of the leading authorities on Chinese Martial art in Australia.

He graduated from the first Brisbane Professional Feldenkrais Training in 1993 and has been practicing extensively since then mainly from the Golden Door Health Retreat in South East Qld. He has combined his knowledge of the Feldenkrais Method with his skills in Chinese internal arts to help people fast track their development in any of the Eastern disciplines and in 2008 authored"The Breathing Book - A Practical Guide to Natural Breathing". Brad still teaches and practices on the Gold Coast.

Sponsored by Feldenkrais Institute of Australia.

Cost: $185 Bookings: Lesley McLennan, 07 33695130 or feldenkrais@feldworks.com

Watch this space

Dates: May 1, 2012 to Dec 29, 2013

Several events are in the planing stages for workshops in Brisbane and Sydney for you to experience some of the diverse appliactions of the Feldenkrais Method.

For more information call 03 9645 4373 or email feldenkrais@feldworks.com

Information sessions

Dates: Jun 1, 2012 to Jun 1, 2013

Enjoy  a Feldenkrais lesson, hear about an interesting aspect of the Method, ask about the training, get information about the many professional development options, the structure of the program, the teachers and the online learning modules.

Information sessions will be held in:

Melbourne

Sydney

Adelaide

Perth

Date and location to be advised. Please call 03 9645 4373 or email feldenkrais@feldworks.com