Felden Summer School

August, Monday 4th to Friday 8th

Online – recordings included

 Suitable for everybody

This is a unique opportunity for a deep immersion into Feldenkrais and for opening pathways of self-discovery through movement. Each class (around 2 hours) will include two key Feldenkrais lessons (one short and one long) and inspirational topics emerged from the recent “Losing oneself” course 2024-25 followed by group sharing, reflections and community

Times

Monday, Tuesday: 9.30-11.30am. Wednesday:  2-4pm. (No class on Thursday). Friday: 9.30-11.30am

Cost

£75 all week (£50 reduced*) or £23 per day (£16 reduced*). Recordings included. Spaces are limited so advance booking is essential.

*Please feel free to use the reduced rate if you are experiencing financial difficulty at the moment

Get in touch

maccagno.paolo@gmail.com 

Inspiration

Losing oneself

Last year Feldenkrais course 2024-25 has been dedicated to explore the parallel between Feldenkrais and Franco Michieli’s idea of “losing oneself”. 

Franco Michieli is an Italian explorer and geographer who has spent all his life walking in wild places around the world and wanting to inspire everyone of the healing potential of being in touch with nature. At a particular point of his life, he decided to change the way he was used to do his expeditions and to stop using technological tools for orientation. He is the author of La vocazione di perdersi, where he suggests travelling without maps and “losing oneself” as a path of hope. 

In the last more than one year with a group of Feldenkrais friends, we have been translating his book which we titled The art of losing oneself.

Franco Michieli in Iceland

When one lies on the floor with closed eyes might feel a wide landscape opening around. How do we orient in that landscape? Moving in a wild landscape without maps like Franco can be similar to moving within one’s own inner landscape during a Feldenkrais class. Learning from how Franco is able to cope with the unknown and the uncertain, wait in silence, be still, recognize those situations as home when he loses himself in the wild, we might understand deeper about Feldenkrais and the way we can move within. 

This would like to be an inverted exploration able to amplify the mystery of life.

This course continues a long-time exploration on similar topics that I have been interested in in the last years. In particular Whiteout 2016, Doing nothing 2021 (exploration of John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing), Walking pilgrimages 2022 and last year Without maps 2023.