Online Feldenkrais courses with Elizabeth Beringer:
Foundations of Strength
Learn to awaken the pleasure of strength
Use less energy to accomplish more
Learn to follow the signs that you are moving efficiently
Be safer as you exercise
Feel more centered
Be surprised…
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6 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons with talks and recorded Q&A sessions. Access to videos, and downloadable audio recordings + bonus recordings.
1. INTRO
- Educate Your Core: Supported Sitting
- Coordinating the Extremities (on your side)
- Q & A from Intro to Foundations of Strength
2. Better Alignment Leads to More Strength: Rolling Along the Spine on Your Back
3. Strong Support: Connecting Feet, Legs and Trunk
4. Balancing Strength through the Trunk and Arms (on your belly)
- Balancing Strength through the Trunk and Arms (Demo of final movement)
5. Balancing Explorations with a Chair
6. Observing and Disturbing How We Embody Stress
7. Rolling Reversibly with Your Whole Self -
“I loved the way Elizabeth presented things. I was able to do things I "couldn't" do before because of how she described the movements. Her explanations were so insightful. It helped me understand better the relationship of the Feldenkrais Method to physical strength or strength training in the mainstream sense.”
“The series was amazing. Elizabeth’s talks were a treat and illuminated a fine nuance into Feldenkrais. As a trainee it was an excellent addition to my training. The selection of the lessons were great. In general, the whole experience was very positive. I felt more balanced and better connected to my core”
“I love that my walking and posture have improved. My confidence in my ability to do things has increased”
“I learned about less effort and more awareness. Very helpful. I learned how to listen to and work with and befriend pain.” -Ellen Turgasen, Massage Therapist
“Experiencing my strength, when more and more of myself was involved in a movement, was such a great feeling!!! I loved myself and ... everything seemed possible!” -Margit, Architect
“Several days after our very first session, I was doing dishes and realized that my legs had repositioned themselves in such a way that the burning pain I usually experienced while doing dishes for any length of time had disappeared! Since then I am more conscious of my stance and position while doing dishes and more conscious of switching from time to time...and doing the dishes has continued to be pain free!” -Semerit Strachan, Wellness and Leadership Coach, artist, author
From the Ground Up
During this short program we investigate how to increase support and comfort while standing and walking.
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3 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® Lessons with talks. Access to video and downloadable audio recordings
1. Intro: Shifting your Center of Gravity
2. Talk: Standing as a Point of Departure
3. Standing as Movement
4. Swinging Your Pelvis -
"This was a great insight into moving in every direction with lightness and ease from the position of standing. The highlight for me was having Elizabeth's interpretation and guidance of these lessons and hearing perhaps familiar words having new meaning through movement and context. I loved the feeling of available space in all directions that I had at the end of the 1st ATM -there was a real multi-dimensional sensation of movement, not just space and a tremendous sense of lightness in walking where I felt like I was walking on the moon without gravity!" - Mhairi MacInnes, Feldenkrais Practitioner
"I felt both more grounded and lighter, my horizon had moved up a bit. As a consequence walking felt lighter, too."
About Elizabeth Beringer
Elizabeth Beringer has been involved with the practice and development of the Feldenkrais Method for more than 40 years and is one of the foremost Feldenkrais teachers and trainers. She studied directly with the founder of the Method, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, in both the U.S. and Israel between 1976 and 1983. Elizabeth has maintained an ongoing and varied private practice, applying the Feldenkrais approach with a diverse population including those with severe movement limitations, seniors, musicians, children and those in chronic pain. She has also worked extensively with athletes, martial artists and dancers, and is known for her ability to apply the Method in dynamic situations. Elizabeth cofounded Feldenkrais Resources with David Zemach-Bersin in 1983 to develop and disseminate Feldenkrais-based educational programs that can be done at home.
Currently Elizabeth's main focus is the training of new practitioners. She has directed four-year trainings in Switzerland, France, Italy, the UK and various locations in the U.S., where she just graduated her 13th training group. In addition to her Feldenkrais practice Elizabeth has studied numerous other somatic disciplines. More recently she has pursued the study of the cognitive sciences, and her current teaching integrates current advances in the cognitive sciences into the Feldenkrais perspective.