Welcome to Awareness Through Movement with Zoe
If you feel trapped in painful, repetitive patterns, worry about injury, fear losing flexibility, or feel exhausted from stress, these lessons can help. You will feel lighter, freer, and more balanced as chronic tension dissolves.
Because Feldenkrais makes changes where it counts—in the brain—people of all ages and abilities can benefit.
These lessons help you:
Let go of limiting habits.
Recover faster from surgery, injury, or accident.
Become more flexible, coordinated, and balanced.
Replace poor self-use and painful habits with easy, graceful movement.
Increase efficiency and improve performance without wasting energy.
Join me to reduce compulsive habits and become more adaptive, responsive, and powerful. New here? Read How to do a lesson and About these classes.
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Drop-in classes on zoom
Everyone can join; All times are Mountain time (Denver, US)
9:30am Sunday April 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26: General class suitable for all abilities. Learn how your hip joints and low back work together.
9:00am Tuesday April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28: Advanced Feldenkrais for adaptability and skill. Use your head and pelvis improve weight shift and rolling.
10:00am Tuesday April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28: Restorative Feldenkrais suitable for everyone, especially those with pain or limitations. Eyes, neck, and breath help upright posture.
5:30pm Tuesday, April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28: Advanced Feldenkrais for adaptability and skill. (Note that I’ve combined the Monday and Tuesday nights.) Join us to explore big lessons for a flexible spine to improve upright posture and a balanced musculature.
Here I’ll be on the floor with you! We will problem-solve movement limitations together in a compassionate, curious way. There is no right or wrong answer in this process, only more and more creative thinking for your unique patterns. Unlike other classes, we’ll pause to answer questions that arise. This is an informal, interactive class.
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Punch cards expire five months after purchase. Treasury subscribers get 40% off with code Treasury. You will get email reminders two hours before class with the zoom link. The link is the same for all classes. Or, join from the button at the top of the page.
Feldenkrais overview: The first Saturday of every month
Next class May 4 on zoom
Bring your curiosity and comfortable clothes. Join me to:
Do a short Awareness Through Movement® lesson.
Ask questions about how new movement patterns could help you.
Hear more about how this process works, as well as background on Moshe Feldenkrais and judo and Zoe’s personal path out of pain.
Experienced students welcome. I love questions!
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm (Mountain time, Denver, US)
Dates: May 4, June 1, July 6, August 3, September 9 (no class Labor Day)
Cost: $25
“I have done yoga and different sports from an early age, but after just a few of Zoe’s lessons, I felt like I was walking on air. I feel more and more relaxed, and I have more understanding of myself and others.”
“In my Feldenkrais classes with Zoe, I have achieved so much more balance and ease of movement. I had years of pain and limitation from accidents and surgeries. Zoe is extremely gentle, and has empowered me with new strategies to increase movement.”
“I love the clarity of the lessons, her voice, the tempo, the messages she puts in between the instructions that help me grow. Zoe has experience, clarity, gentleness, she teaches Feldenkrais as easily as breathing. I pick up from her lessons how much Feldenkrais means to her, and that gives the lessons extra meaning to me.”
“Zoe is an articulate and compassionate guide to self-exploration. Because we are not rushed or pushed but rather are encouraged to slow down and savor the exploration, I leave feeling good every time. Thank you, Zoe, for all you offer.”
Can I join any class?
Yes, you can join any class. To get the most benefit and feel the positive effects, come regularly to a number of classes. No experience necessary, just bring your kind attention and open awareness.
How it works
In these lessons you learn how to move with minimum effort and maximum ease, not through muscular strength, but through increased awareness of how the body works.
Lying on the floor you are directed through a series of gentle, non-invasive movements that grow increasingly complex. At the same time you are asked to pay attention to specific sensory feedback. The teacher instructs you on how to adjust the direction, speed, timing, and force of each movement as the lesson continues.
Often the lessons are like puzzles in which you figure out how to move around fixed constraints. This puzzle-like situation prompts the nervous system to activate a different muscle pattern than you usually use.
As a result, at the end of a lesson habitual muscle tension releases. You sense the stability of a balanced skeleton. Your breathing is freer, walking lighter, and eyes clearer. Your kinesthetic perception enhanced, you can move in ways that you thought were restricted.
For more background:
Read the blog posts under new to Feldenkrais.
Listen to this short note on how to benefit from these lessons.
“I am an athlete and Zoe’s lessons give me relief from pain. She has an innate body awareness and a complete sensitivity to what I’m experiencing.”
“Just want to tell you how much I am getting out of the lessons. I have not felt this much ease in a long time. I also appreciate your sense of humor, which is a nice plus.”
Zoe’s moving blankets
How to get set up
Set yourself up on your floor on a blanket. Yoga mats are too sticky for this type of movement. Use any blanket you have around the house. Thick moving blankets are optimal, but not necessary. I get mine here: USA cargo control, for around $20 each. Also check out mats for movement, which are nice, but pricier.
In case we lie on the side, have a folded towel or blanket nearby to support your head. A pillow is too squishy.
Orient your device so I can see you, if at all possible. It helps me cue the movement and respond better to how each person interprets the lesson. Some people have video on, some have it off, it’s up to you.
Each regular class is about 50 minutes. At the end, I’ll answer questions and take comments. This is optional. You’re welcome to exit class any time. No one’s offended if you need to move on with your day.
Want more help? I offer personal guidance with coaching calls via zoom. Many clients use these to get help with specific issues and detailed suggestions for home practice.
“Willpower is necessary when the ability to do is lacking. Learning, as I see it, is not the training of willpower but the acquisition of the skill to inhibit parasitic action and the ability to direct clear motivations a result of self knowledge.”