Ingrid Weisfelt — Movement & Creativity

Online Feldenkrais series with Ingrid Weisfelt:

The Dancer Series

The Dancers Series is designed specifically to support the movement education of people training to be professional dancers. It has a focus on helping dancers find greater release, clearer connections, and improved efficiency of movement.

This series is open to all levels and can be enjoyed by non dancers as well.

  • 8 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Access to video recordings.

    1. Freeing the Hip Joints
    2. Roll to Reach
    3. Activating Your Core
    4. Baby Bear Rolls
    5. Discovering the Spine

  • "My whole body feels more integrated after this lesson. In the beginning my feet flopped out and at the end they were upright toward ceiling. I feel taller with no effort. I will return to this lesson to reap its ongoing benefits!"

    "I love this lesson. It is liberating to experience retiré with my whole body! Such a contrast to the bracing and isolating that I learned in decades of technique class… There is so much more pleasure and ease through lightness, effortlessness and freedom. Thank you for this dancer’s series."

    "This is the lesson I have been looking for for several weeks, I have had a tightening in my lower rib cage in back… Scoliosis has been particularly troublesome and tightening up my back.

    This lesson opened up my rib cage in a beautiful way, and I feel so much freer with a sense of looseness and lightness throughout my whole body.

    I’m so glad I happened to notice it and it invited me to try it out. Thank you so much! 🩵🧚🏼‍♀️🐈‍⬛"

    "Really freed up my neck. Started out with turning my neck almost 45 degree to the right but only about 15 degrees to the left. By end of the lesson had equal flexibility on both sides. Ribs felt incredible, much deeper breathes available. Perfect way to lengthen my whole body after sitting in car for six hours today."

    "I like this powerful exercise, however I have a very weak neck and find it impossible to lift it to look down to my toes. At the end I also I felt very despondent that it just does not lift off the floor. So I did it in my imagination and want to ask you for any advice? Many thanks."

    "The difference between when I began the session to when it ended was amazing to see. The reallocation of which muscles were being activated in order to raise my head to look at my toes was surprising to see in such a short amount of time. There was a redistribution of focus from my core, from only being where my solar plexus and stomach are, to a deeper awareness of the core muscles in my back."

    “this was wonderful!!! i loved the quiet and depth of your teaching Ingrid! Thank you” - Yeshi

    “I feel simultaneously lighter and more grounded after this lesson. I also noticed that my belly was the only thing moving when I breathed at the beginning of the lesson, and that by the end my chest was moving too.” - Megan

    "An absolutely wonderful lesson! Rejuvenated me completely!"

    "My hip bursitis has completely gone. This lesson drives home the need to go slow, to savor each new sequence of discovery. The length of the lesson gave my brain time to change the pattern of using only my hip to flex and extend my legs while holding on to my feet. By the end of the lesson I truly felt like a contortionist, my body going with ease from my back to sitting on one side and then the other...will come back again and again to Ingrid's beautiful sing song voice!” - Taffy"

    "This is not just an amazing lesson (thanks to its structure and development, particularly with the focus on finding connection elsewhere too, and not just the hip and leg one) but Ingrid's way of teaching it (her choice of words, the timing, the rhythm plus her voice!) makes it also all the more special. At the end of the lesson I stood up and felt all this space in and around me, just to mention at least one small change but so big in its impact on the rest of me. Thanks!"

About Ingrid Weisfelt

Ingrid Weisfelt specializes in working with adults, children with special needs and with performers. As well as teaching at the Melbourne Feldenkrais Studio, Ingrid works as a Movement Therapist at Warringa Park School and offers home visits for families with children who have special needs. Ingrid teaches Feldenkrais at the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne University) School of Dance as part of the Integrated Body Mind Practices unit.

Ingrid has been working as a certified Feldenkrais practitioner in the Arts since 2002 and in Allied Health since 2010. Ingrid is a Feldenkrais Assistant Trainer.

Ingrid's Feldenkrais practice is informed by her twenty year career as a professional dancer. Her movement teaching skills have evolved from a study of contemporary and classical dance training, yoga, contact improvisation and physical theatre. Ingrid has taught at several performing arts institutions including the National Theatre Drama School, Monash University and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University. She teaches movement for actors and singers, basing her teaching in the Feldenkrais Method.

Utilizing all of her movement skills, Ingrid integrates a strong sense of play, spontaneity and creative exploration into her work. Children respond very positively to this. They are often eager to participate, engage with great joy and learn to their greatest capacity. Based on fundamental developmental movements, Ingrid facilitates movement exploration that is fun and safe and helps the child discover and experience movement possibilities that were not easily available to them previously. 

Ingrid works with all people who are interested in improving their ability to move, and who understand that when you improve the way that you move, you also improve the way you feel, sense and think.

Ingrid is a certified member of the Australian Feldenkrais Guild and a registered professional member of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association