Violet van Hees ...... violet@violetvanhees.com ...... 250-327-4751 (Canada)
Classes Underway or Coming Up
Lighthouse Community Hall, Qualicum Bay
When: Wednesday mornings, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Sept. 18 to Dec. 11, 2024. (Please note: there will be no class on October 9.)
Where: L'Heureux Room
Cost: By donation - your choice how much :) (Suggestion: between $10 and $20 per class).
What to bring: Your curiosity! Wear clothes you can move freely in. Please bring a mat, and a towel you can scrunch up for support if needed.
Fanny Bay Community Hall
When: Thursday afternoons, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., October 3 to November 28, 2024 (Please note: there will be no class on October 31.)
Where: Fanny Bay Community Hall Studio (go up the stairs on the left after you come in the front door)
Cost: By donation - your choice how much :) (Suggestion: between $10 and $20 per class)
What to bring: Your curiosity! Wear clothes you can move freely in. Please bring a mat, and a towel you can scrunch up for support.
Let's Create a Custom Class or Workshop!
Let's Create a Custom Class or Workshop!
Do you have a group of 4 or more people, interested in a specific focus? Perhaps:
- For a specific sport?
- For a specific topic? (e.g. ease and strength for your back, or for your hips, or...)
Let's chat! We can create and design a workshop, class, or series of classes specific to your group.
More freedom, ease and strength - for all of you!
Some key Feldenkrais® Principles we will work with
Listen to YOUR Smart Body
Listen to the intelligence of your own body, to guide what suits you.
Do what FEELS SAFE, to you.
Feldenkrais sessions and classes are all about learning. And learning only happens well, when you feel safe. We will tap into what Dr. Stephen Porges (the PolyVagal Theory guy) calls "The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe".
Let the bones do what bones do best, and muscles do what muscles do best
Your bones are built to support weight, and transfer force. What muscles do best is: line up the bones. :-) When muscles try to do what bones can do better, muscles get tired, sore - and cranky! So - let's check - could your bones do more, and does that make your muscles happier?
Spread out the work (aka: "The proportional distribution of effort")
If a place within you feels like it is doing too much - it probably is! We will explore how to spread out the work, over long pathways through your body, so that each place can do its fair share, and no one place does "too much". Ahhhh yes - THAT feels better!
Notice differences - and compare how they feel
As you explore, you will be invited to notice: is this different from what you did before? Does it feel safe? Do you like it? Does it work well, for YOU? Bringing awareness to what you notice helps to "make it real", and helps new experiences to land and settle in much better and faster.
We use MOVEMENT as the Doorway to learning and change
Humans learn, and change. This learning and changing can happen at any age! In the Feldenkrais classes and session, we focus on MOVEMENT as the doorway to discovery. So that you can Open Your World to more freedom and choice, more ease, more strength, more fun. Yes!