KAIKILLE AVOIN FELDENKRAIS® -VIIKONLOPPU HELSINGISSÄ SYYSKUUSSA 2025
FELDENKRAIS® PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN HELSINKI IN SEPTEMBER 2025
Teema / Theme:
”Hands articulated and relaxed to touch, communicate, explore, act, trace, model and play…”
La / Sat 13-18
Su / Sun 10-14.30
Opettaja / Teacher: François Combeau
Hands that are available and present for touching, communicating, relating, acting… hands that are free and differentiated for exploring space and matter, skilled for creating shapes and setting them in motion…
Our hands are part of those extremities through and with which we relate to the surrounding world and to others, whether to receive information or to express ourselves.
The mobility of the fingers and their differentiation from one another make our hands extremely sensitive and agile instruments for receiving and acting.
Whether we’re touching, writing, drawing or playing an instrument, our hands are a veritable medium for expressing our intelligence, sensitivity and creative ability.
We’ll discover the chain of integration that links each finger to the spinal column, mobilize the joints of the wrist, elbow and shoulder, and explore the qualities of sensitive touch, a genuine dialogue between skin, muscle and bone with the thing being felt.
The work proposed during the lessons will enable each and every one to:
* Feel and mobilize the integration chain linking hand, arm, shoulder blade, collarbone and spine, enabling effortless movement without joint limitation (wrist/elbow/shoulder), differentiated and harmonious movement, whether for graphics, instrumental play, sporting gestures or manual activity.
* Rediscover freedom of movement in the wrists, which is essential if the hand and fingers are to move in space and adapt to the object being touched or held.
* Discover the many finger joints and their different mobilities for greater mobility and agility.
* Refine the quality of touch, a veritable dialogue between skin, muscle and bone between self and ”the thing touched”.
* Develop the ability to dialogue with the higher nervous system through differentiation in the hand (one of the areas most represented in the motor cortex) and the development of a genuine quality of movement and action
François Combeau is a Feldenkrais teacher and Trainer.
As a teacher/practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® for 35 years, Francois Combeau has a wide range of teaching experience of ATM® lessons, including weekly classes, theme series, and numerous seminars in Paris, throughout Europe and in Detroit (Michigan), for professionals in the fields of the arts, athletics and health.
He also works with individuals helping them to develop a fuller quality of life – physically, mentally and emotionally.
As an experienced Assistant-trainer and than Trainer, he has been involved in many training in Europe, in Paris with Myriam Pfeffer, in Liege, Belgium with Yvan Joly, in Bad Windshiem, Germany with Mark Reese, and in the U.S. with Anat Baniel. These trainers have in many ways been his mentors. Francois has taught advanced training in France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. He has also the desire to share the experience he developed teaching for 15 years in small continuity educational training’s, creating a very interactive, precise and supportive way of working with students.