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Apr 5
5 min

Isolation Consolation.

I am happy to say that Feldenkrais on line is a very nice alternative to the physical version. Classes are full of people from all over...

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Ed Woodall

Jan 7
4 min

How can Feldenkrais help your Yoga?

However kind you are to yourself, in Yoga you are inevitably judging yourself against the pose. Feldenkrais does something very powerful to

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Ed Woodall

Jan 6
7 min

Lessons learned on Snowdon.

In my early 20s I was given a shocking diagnosis that I had severe osteoarthritis in my two bog toe joints.

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Bringing European forces together with Feldenkrais Method.

Ed Woodall

Nov 26, 2019
9 min

Bringing European forces together with Feldenkrais Method.

This summer I took part in a pan-european theatre and performance exchange in Leeds.

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Ed Woodall

Nov 14, 2019
4 min

Who says you can't act BIG on TV?!

Phillipe Duclos is a great french actor who lights up the screen in Spiral. He shows how release and control can help you to act BIG!

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Ed Woodall

Oct 24, 2019
2 min

Swimming that changed my life.

Swimming better is a feat of ingenuity. Total Immersion taught me to find pleasure in what had been a chore and I teach that in Feldenkrais.

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Ed Woodall

Oct 20, 2019
7 min

What's all this, dancing?

Feldenkrais was not a dancer but he was a black belt in Judo. He was not involved in the performing arts directly but has influenced them...

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Ed Woodall

Oct 1, 2019
5 min

Interoception: have you heard of it?

Have you realised how the Feldenkrais Method and autistic spectrum disorders might be connected? Here is my work in progress report.

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Ed Woodall

Sep 1, 2019
5 min

Learning while teaching

It is a bit of a cliché that you learn from your students. As soon as a teacher says that you wonder if they are JUST saying it. It makes...

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Ed Woodall

Aug 25, 2019
3 min

The opioid crisis; chronic greed.

As I now am approached regularly by people with chronic pain for help, my attention has been more focused on the opioid crisis. This is a...

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Ed Woodall

Jul 12, 2019
3 min

A sad synchronicity.

He was the sort of man who knew reams and reams of poetry by heart; not a skill much adhered to nowadays. As an actor he had a richness of

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Ed Woodall

Jun 1, 2019
3 min

Ikebana for me.

A human being initially moves and reacts to the space beyond them; their environment. Later, when we want to improve ourselves, we can lear

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Ed Woodall

Apr 3, 2019
3 min

It's all down to the myelin.

As I start this new blog, I am mindful of how a blog can be a "flash in the pan" affair or, at it's best, a long-term tool to inform, edu...

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Ed Woodall

Apr 3, 2019
2 min

Its obvious to me.

I am not a neurologist or a neuro-surgeon but as a Feldenkrais practitioner, I am intimately familiar with what is known as neuro-plastic...

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Ed Woodall

Apr 3, 2019
4 min

The Spiral of Life.

Spiralling is a very important component of movement, human and otherwise. Like a lot of things nowadays- after my training in Feldenkrai...

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Ed Woodall

Apr 3, 2019
5 min

About time, NHS.

Last month I heard a really encouraging article on the Radio about how the NHS is planning to shift to a more preventative system. The id...

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