Smooth transition of power?
What is the Feldenkrais take on the American election? Well, there isn't one because Feldenkrais is not a political practice but of...
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Ed Woodall
- Apr 5, 2020
- 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, 2020
- 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, 2020
- 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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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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