IMPORTANT
I will be out of the country until 18th Feb. My mobile number won't function during this time. However, please feel free to contact me by email on alcaig@hotmail.com.
Classes will begin again on 20th Feb at the Friends Meeting House in Ipswich.
For those who live within easier reach of Colchester, I will be announcing workshops at First Site very soon.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Happy Christmas, New Year - enjoy everything and stay aware!
Hello. My name is Alan Caig Wilson. I have been a Practitioner of The Feldenkrais Method® since 1999. I live and work between Ipswich and Manningtree, in East Anglia, where I also have my Practice.
Inside these pages, you will find information about The Feldenkrais Method®, and its component parts, Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration®, as well as more about me and my background.
The Feldenkrais Method® is fundamentally a learning process. We refer to the people who come to us as Students rather than 'clients' or 'patients'.
Moshe Feldenkrais, the Method's founder, drew his inspirations from martial art, child development, engineering and a life-time of curiosity. Following injury, he devised 'exercises' for himself that helped him overcome pain and lack of full mobility. It was this that he began to share with others and gradually developed the methodologies and ideas to support his work.
THE ONLY FACULTY WE ARE BORN WITH IS CURIOSITY
We move through the world touching things, learning about them and ourselves.
The special approach of The Feldenkrais Method is to guide your self-awareness through patterns of movement that make it clearer how YOU YOURSELF relate to the world.
Unlike dance classes you don't move from beginner to intermediate to advanced. Feldenkrais has the philosophy that the more you come into contact with the ideas in Awareness Through Movement (groups) and Functional Integration (individual lessons), the more you learn about YOUR OWN BODY.
You don't learn a technique, or someone else's 'recipe' for good movement.
The learning process takes you deeper into ways in which
you can create a greater sense of freedom for yourself.
Put simply, it fires your curiosity about yourself.
THE AWAKE-AWARE-ALERT NEXUS
To state the obvious: when not sleeping, we are awake. Frequently through a day we are called upon to be alert – when driving, crossing the street, chopping vegetables and so on – however, suggests Moshe Feldenkrais, if we are not aware before we are alert, all sorts of negative consequences are possible.
Many, if not all of us, will habitually jump from awake to alert, cunningly avoiding aware and often with unpleasant consequences!
The hope is that the the skill of awareness becomes generally available to
all other areas of our day-to-day activity.
To state the obvious: when not sleeping, we are awake. Frequently through a day we are called upon to be alert – when driving, crossing the street, chopping vegetables and so on – however, suggests Moshe Feldenkrais, if we are not aware before we are alert, all sorts of negative consequences are possible.
Many, if not all of us, will habitually jump from awake to alert, cunningly avoiding aware and often with unpleasant consequences!
- Jumping into the car, late for work, to reverse out of the car-port, we screw ourselves around too quickly and put our backs/shoulders/necks out. Result: pain and discomfort for days, perhaps longer.
- Rushing to prepare a meal, we chop the top off a thumb whilst dicing the onions. Result: pain, discomfort, bad temper.
The hope is that the the skill of awareness becomes generally available to
all other areas of our day-to-day activity.
This is where The Feldenkrais
Method® comes in. The job of a Feldenkrais Practitioner is to share ideas and skills that enhance the student's quality of awareness in everything they do. Moshe Feldenkrais made it his aim to inspire people to realise their often unstated dreams, through developing their own, individual and particular abilities in controlling their responses to the demands of living.
Read on through my site and find out how, through regular weekly classes, or through specially-tailored one-to-one sessions, you can begin to feel
- freer,
- lighter,
- fresher,
- more balanced,
- more grounded,
- more in control of the physical issues that you face.
Alan Caig Wilson
07782 190615
alcaig@hotmail.com
