Feldenkrais for Beginners on Cheung Chau

This workshop for beginners is designed to give participants a rich experience of the principles and movements that are found in the Feldenkrais Method.

The Feldenkrais Method is a holistic sensory-motor learning system that explores how we sense ourselves while improving our awareness of what we are doing.

It is a unique and enjoyable process that offers improvement in your posture, movement, imagination and awareness.

Venue: Kwok Man Primary School on Cheung Chau

Teacher: Sean Curran

Sean is a Certified Feldenkrais Practioner and he has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method to various groups and individuals for over 20 years.

Dates: 7,14,21 and 28 May (Sundays)

Time: 2:30 to 4 pm

Cost: 800HKD for a total of 4 classes or 250HKD for a drop in individual class

Enrol here: https://forms.gle/YUFZ7h9pMErhobpaA

Healthier Eyes and Better Vision with Feldenkrais Method PART 2

This 4 session Feldenkrais Workshop will help to improve your eye health. With the increased use of computers, phones, and tablets, people of all ages are experiencing eye discomfort. This not only diminishes our eye health, but can also lead to tension in our jaw, neck, and shoulders. The Awareness through Movement ™ lessons in this workshop will help to relieve neck and shoulder pain and provide participants with new tools for vital self-care. They can also help to improve mobility and posture while reducing muscular tension.

These new and gentle lessons are appropriate for everyone and no previous experience with the Feldenkrais Method or the Healthier Eyes and Better Vision Part 1 series is needed.

Many participants reported an overall feeling of better vision and a sense of aliveness after taking the first Healthy Eyes and Better Vision Part 1 workshop in November.

Cost: HKD 800

Date: Feb 5,12,19,26 ( Sat）

Time: 2:30- 4pm

Venue: Theatre du Pif Studio

Teacher: Sean Curran

The workshop will be taught in English

---- About Sean Curran

Sean is the Co-Artistic Director of Theatre du Pif. He has been a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner since 2004 and he has led Feldenkrais Workshops for performers in Asia, Europe, Canada, and South America. He also teaches the Feldenkrais Method at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and at the Hong Kong Baptist University. In recent years Sean’s work has extended beyond the performing arts and he now teaches Feldenkrais Workshops for business executives, physiotherapists, social workers, and people in recovery from cancer. The Feldenkrais Workshops Sean runs at the Theatre du Pif studio are open to all.

"The Feldenkrais Approach to Performance” with Deborah Bowes

Moving through Neutrality Discovering a place of balance and calm where our body and mind are receptive and ready to engage with the world sometime in our lives.

Breathing and feeling yourself Refining your sensing and moving for enhanced presence.

Space and Spaciousness Exploring both our inner space and our relationship to the space all around us.

This Feldenkrais Method workshop is an exploration of your habits of moving and sensing yourself in order to expand your choices. There is a difference between an exploratory movement and a performative movement. You can take the learning from exploring movement into more skillful performance when you need it. The learning process used in Feldenkrais lessons are without fixed goals and they can help to reduce anxiety and to prevent or hasten recover from injuries. You can gain confidence in your ability to generate new options for action.

Each person will get something different from the lessons and have the freedom to learn in their own time, in their own way, without competition or judgment. The mind-body responses can include a sense of more length, width, better breathing, clearer orientation in the environment, and feeling more connected to one's being. The ability to sense oneself in the moment, especially a moment like an audition, or a performance …for example, being able to connect to weight or support, breath, find the right timing, use appropriate effort, and, to know where one is in space... that's the magic for performing well.

This workshop will be especially beneficial to people working in the creative arts field such as performers, directors, writers, producers as well as teachers.

However the workshop is OPEN TO ANYONE, at any level of fitness, as all of us sometimes in our lives have to present ourselves in front of others whether in a formal setting like an interview or in a social situation such as meeting someone for the first time.

--- Deborah Bowes loves learning and movement. She has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method for over 30 years in the USA, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Colombia. She lives in San Francisco, California and has a private practice working with performers, musicians, singers and the general public. She has a special interest in managing pain, women’s health and mindful well-being. She also is a certified Yang Style Tai Chi teacher , and continues to study Qigong, meditation, yoga and dance forms. She also has a doctorate in physical therapy.

--- Workshop schedule 14-15, 21-22 & 28-29.8 (Sat & Sun) Sat 11-1pm; Sun 11-1:30pm (Sun 1-1:30pm Q&A Session with Deborah) Format: Online/ Attend at TDP studio Fee：HK$1,500 (No student concession) Participants should attend all the sessions Conducted in English without translations Enrollment︰forms.gle/VxLmh5No2vD7uWoE8

Online Our online workshops are delivered using "Zoom". An email with the Zoom link is sent before the classes.

Attend at TDP studio If you would like to attend this workshop by coming to Theatre du Pif's studio Sheung Wan, you can register 'Attend at TDP studio'. The class will be screened on a TV and a camera will be in the room so Deborah can see the students. In addition (but not compulsory), you can also have your own smartphone device connected (with your own network) and your camera focused on your mat so you can be seen more clearly. --- SEED 2020 is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region The content of these activities does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region