Marie Körkkö & Feldenkrais

Feldenkrais® -työpaja 24.1.

Feldenkrais® -työpaja lauantaina 24.1.2026 klo 11-14 Helsingissä Meilahden Tilajakamolla, Tukholmankatu 10.

Teema: Minäkuva ja aistit
”Minäkuva ohjaa kaikkea toimintaamme. Se määrittää miten teemme sen, mitä teemme.”
”Minäkuva koostuu neljästä tekijästä – liikkeestä, ajattelusta, tunteista ja aisteista. Jokainen näistä neljästä on aina jollain tasolla läsnä kaikessa tekemisessämme.”
(Awareness Through Movement, Moshe Feldenkrais 1972)

Työpaja sisältää kolme Feldenkrais® -menetelmän ryhmätuntia (Awareness Through Movement® -oppituntia). Tunneilla ollaan paljon makuuasennossa lattialla – pukeuduthan tarpeeksi lämpimästi. Voit osallistua omissa arkivaatteissasi.

Työpaja on avoin kaikille, ikään tai kuntoon katsomatta. Aiempaa kokemusta menetelmästä ei tarvita.

Feldenkrais® -menetelmä on kehollinen oppimismenetelmä, joka auttaa ihmistä tulemaan tietoiseksi itsestään, tekemistään, ja ympäristöstään. Päätyöväline menetelmässä on liike, ja työn lähtökohta on minäkuva. Menetelmän tavoite on auttaa ihmistä löytämään uudelleen omat luontaiset fyysiset ja psyykkiset ulottuvuutensa, jolloin arki kevenee ja helpottuu.

Opettaja: Marie Körkkö

Hinta: 50 euroa (sis. alv 14%)
Maksu paikan päällä MobilePaylla tai käteisellä, tai tilille FI6653180920022734.

Ilmoittautuminen: marie.korkko@gmail.com






François Combeau

François Combeau Helsingissä 12.-13.9.2026

KAIKILLE AVOIN FELDENKRAIS® -VIIKONLOPPU HELSINGISSÄ SYYSKUUSSA 2026
FELDENKRAIS® PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN HELSINKI IN SEPTEMBER 2026

Teema / Theme: 

“Through the feet, stable and dynamic support during action, better balance in all situations”

La / Sat 13-18
Su / Sun 10-14.30

Opettaja / Teacher: François Combeau

Hinta / Course fee: 200€
(sis. ALV/ incl. VAT 14%)

Maksuosoite / Account: FI66 5318 0920 0227 34
Viesti / Invoice message: FC2026

Ilmoittautumiset / Registration:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358408328519

To be balanced is to be capable of balance, that is to say capable of organizing fine adjustments, both physical and psychological, which allow one to adapt to events coming from outside as well as from inside. The balance of the upright man is therefore not a ”posture” in the formal sense of the term, but an ”acture”, a true availability to act, react and find one’s balance at every moment and in all situations.

Finding true verticality, a human being considerably expands their field of observation and action. Their feet, a true grounding point, place them in constant exchange with the earth’s energy. They are also the meeting point between the horizontality of the ground and their own verticality.

Above the ankle, more than fifty joints are organized, which determine their balance as a standing human. Any imbalance inevitably leads to compensatory use of the musculature to support the skeleton, thereby reducing its ability to move.

The human body’s supports are the dynamic expression of two equal and opposite forces: the force of gravity (linked to gravitation) and the inverse return of everything received by the ground (theory of bi-verticalism).

While they are physical, these supports are just as psychological. Indeed, the psyche sometimes adds to, sometimes reduces the action of gravity (the anxious person who walks on tiptoe, another walking with small steps as if with regret, heeling the ground with his arrogance or even dragging the slippers of moral or physical misery…).

During this workshop, through awareness-raising situations and the exploration of easy yet unusual movements, performed effortlessly, with a curious mind and a desire to play, the following will be proposed:

  • Develop the numerous sensory receptors of the foot, which will allow for more functional balance
    management (for standing, walking, singing, dancing, skiing, etc.)
  • Refine the differentiation between the different elements of the foot, ankle, and toes, which will give the feet all the sensory-motor intelligence to adapt to terrain and situations. This work will also constitute a true dialogue with the upper layers of the brain, the feet being particularly represented in the motor cortex.
  • Discover the astonishing relationships between the support of the feet on the ground and respiratory function, gaze, vocal expression, and more generally our physical and mental attitude toward action and the environment.

    By finding the security of stable and dynamic support as well as better organization of one’s skeleton in the gravitational field, Human beings, freed from the worry of maintaining their balance, can dare to leap into action without restraint and move forward.

François Combeau is a Feldenkrais Teacher and Trainer.
As 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.

Marie Körkkö & Feldenkrais

Feldenkrais® -työpajat Salossa kesäkuussa

Kahtena maanantaina kesäkuussa kolmen tunnin Feldenkrais® -työpaja Salohallin tanssitilassa, osoite: Pormestarinkatu 5, Salo.
Työpajat ohjaa Feldenkrais®-opettaja Marie Körkkö

Maanantai 9.6. klo 17-20
”Silmästä silmään”
Teemana silmät, ja silmien roolit.
Näkemisen lisäksi silmillä on iso merkitys koko kehon liikkeille. Kun silmien liikkeet kehittyvät, miten se vaikuttaa muuhun tekemiseemme?

Maanantai 16.6. klo 15-18
”Letkein lantein juhannukseen”
Teemana lantio.
Lantio on pohja käsien, pään, selän ja selkärangan toiminnalle. Lantio ja sen liikkuvuus vaikuttaa merkittävästi myös moniin perustoimintoihimme, kuten mm. hengitykseen, ruoansulatukseen, istumiseen, ja kävelyyn. Kun lantion liikkuvuus kehittyy, mitä kaikkea siitä seuraa?

Hinta:
50e / yksi työpaja
90e / kaksi työpajaa

Ilmoittautuminen ja lisätiedot:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358 40 832 8519

Otathan mukaasi oman alustan. Tunneilla työskennellään paljon lattialla maaten.

Minimiosallistujamäärä kahdeksan henkilöä kunkin työpajan toteutumiseksi.

Lämpimästi tervetuloa!

François Combeau

François Combeau Helsingissä 13.-14.9.2025

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

Paikka / Place:
Minervaskolan, Apollonkatu 12, 00100 Helsinki

Hinta / Course fee: 200€
(sis. ALV/ incl. VAT 14%)

Maksuosoite / Account: FI66 5318 0920 0227 34
Viesti / Invoice message: FC2025

Ilmoittautumiset / Registration:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358408328519



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.

François Combeau

François Combeau Helsingissä 14.-15.9.2024

KAIKILLE AVOIN FELDENKRAIS-VIIKONLOPPU HELSINGISSÄ ALEKSANTERIN TEATTERILLA /
FELDENKRAIS PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN HELSINKI, ALEKSANTERI THEATER


Teema / Theme: 

The shoulder girdle, mobility of the arms,  freedom of the head and the upper part of the chest



La / Sat 13-18
Su / Sun 10-14.30

Opettaja / Teacher: François Combeau

Due to its light, fine and highly articulated structure, and its articulation with the spine at the level of the cervico-dorsal hinge (C7/D1), the shoulder girdle, as if suspended, allows great mobility of the arms in all directions of movement. The emergence of the neck and head from this cervical hinge ensures its rotation like a real periscope carrying the sense organs. It also contributes to the freedom of the upper part of the chest, allowing easier, more comfortable and functional respiratory development as well as an important relaxation of the throat…

Anatomical observation clearly shows us that the pelvis, due to its very dense and bony structure, has the function of ensuring our balance, the stability of our supports, the efficiency of our movements and the development of strength. The shoulder girdle, on the other hand, is made up of very light, fine and wonderfully articulated bones, and designed to allow us to express with great freedom our relationship to the world and to others, to act in a very fine and differentiated way, to use instruments and tools, to communicate, touch, feel and receive stimulation…

The numerous explorations offered will allow each participant to:

* Discover and better understand the different joints that animate the shoulder girdle, articulation between the head of the arm and the clavicle, between the clavicle and the sternum, between the neck and the dorsal thoracic spine (C7/D1), articulation between the first vertebrae dorsal…

* Develop real mobility of the scapula and its sliding on the ribs in all spatial directions, without which the arm cannot find its freedom of movement and the rib cage its functional engagement in respiratory development.

* Find relaxation in the shoulders and particularly in the different fibers of the “trapezius” muscles (relationship between the shoulder blade, the head and the dorsal column) on which many psychosomatic tensions linked to our way of living, our habits and acquired attitudes are fixed in the near past as in childhood

* Free the sternum and regain its suspension, allowing it to play its role as a true “figurehead” for our travels…

* Find more elasticity in all these links between the head and the rib cage, many of which pass through the throat, the suspensors of the larynx, etc.

         


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.


Kurssin opetuskieli: englanti /
Teaching language: English


Paikka / Place:
Studio Yama
(Aleksanterin teatterin 4. kerros)
Bulevardi 23-27, Helsinki


Kurssin hinta / Price: 195€
Tili / Account: FI66 5318 0920 0227 34 Viesti / Message: FC 2024


Ilmoittautumiset ja tiedustelut / Registration and info:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358 40 832 8519 / Marie Körkkö

Tervetuloa!
Welcome!


Osanottajamäärä on rajoitettu – paikat täytetään ilmoittautumisjärjestyksessä.
The number of participants is limited – places are filled in order of registration.

Ilmoittautuminen on voimassa heti kun kurssimaksu on maksettu.
Registration is valid as soon as the course fee has been paid.

Feldenkrais® -sunnuntai Salossa 16.4.2023

Paikka: Salon kansalaisopisto, Ylhäistentie 2, Salo

Teema:
Mistä otan voiman?
“Kaikki voimat johtuvat kappaleiden välisistä vuorovaikutuksista. Kahden kappaleen vuorovaikuttaessa keskenään kohdistuu molempiin yhtä suuri, mutta vastakkaissuuntainen voima.” (Isaac Newton, 1687)

Työpaja sisältää kolme Feldenkrais® -menetelmän ryhmätuntia (Awareness Through Movement® -oppituntia). Tunneilla ollaan myös makuuasennossa lattialla – otathan mukaasi oman alustan sekä froteepyyhkeen, jonka voit taitella päänaluseksi. Tunneille voit osallistua omissa arkivaatteissasi.

Työpaja on avoin kaikille, ikään tai kuntoon katsomatta. Aiempaa kokemusta menetelmästä ei tarvita.

Feldenkrais® -menetelmä on kehollinen oppimismenetelmä, joka auttaa ihmistä tulemaan tietoiseksi itsestään, tekemistään, ja ympäristöstään. Päätyöväline menetelmässä on liike, ja työn lähtökohta on minäkuva. Menetelmän tavoite on auttaa ihmistä löytämään uudelleen omat luontaiset fyysiset ja psyykkiset ulottuvuutensa, jolloin arki kevenee ja helpottuu.

Opettaja: Marie Körkkö

Hinta: 40 euroa (sis. alv 10%)
Maksu paikan päällä MobilePaylla tai käteisellä.

Ilmoittautuminen:
tiina.tulo@gmail.com / 040 577 8106

Lisätiedot ja kysymykset työpajasta:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / 040 832 8519 / www.marienpianokellari.fi

Lämpimästi tervetuloa!

François Combeau

François Combeau Helsingissä 16.-17.9.2023


KAIKILLE AVOIN FELDENKRAIS-VIIKONLOPPU HELSINGISSÄ ALEKSANTERIN TEATTERILLA /
FELDENKRAIS PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN HELSINKI, ALEKSANTERI THEATER


La / Sat 13-18
Su / Sun 10-14.30

Opettaja / Teacher: François Combeau


Teema / Theme:          

“To live in freedom, breathe in freedom …”

«Go beyond what is breathing, there you will find breath»  (Shri Aurobindo)

”Breathing is a universal, dynamic process in which man is included. It manifests itself in us through respiration, apparent as inhalation and exhalation. This is indeed a two-way flow between the inner and outer worlds, a gateway to All. This dynamic process does not belong to us. It is a cycle triggered without any intervention of the mind and sustained beyond our control. Yet we can intervene through voluntary muscles which shrink or expand spaces and impose shapes.

This duality can be difficult to accept at times. All our work on breathing, the changes we are seeking and the control we are striving to acquire should never relegate breathing to a possession – under the ownership of the Ego – or a creation of the mind. When breathing loses its natural rhythm and spontaneous dynamism, it loses its linking function and rapidly becomes an ill-adapted response to our needs ”here and now”.

Deep breathing is not confined to the chest or diaphragm movements. It involves the entire body. Unicity and balance are the features of healthy breathing. For all parts of the body to live and breathe fully, the chest must be stripped of its armour, the face must allow the passages (nostrils, pharynx, glottis…) to loosen, and the spine must recover its wholeness and flexibility, so as to track the wave of breath as it wells up from the abdomen, travels right through the body and unfurls across the face.

By embodying universal breath in us, breathing indeed provides a two-way flow between the inner and outer worlds. Consequently, if nothing is there to impede this dynamic process, it can remain free and adapt to the reality of both worlds while meeting our needs, intentions, activities, emotional states and relationships. It faithfully shadows our physical life as well as the subtlechanges in our emotional life.

A person’s breathing patterns cannot realy evolve by means of any conditioned learning or by imposing a system but by:

  • recovering freedom of the physical support and actualisation site of our bodies and body movements;
  • returning the nervous system’s capacity to receive information from both inner and outer worlds;
  • producing an appropriate response by controlling the opening-up processes and developments leading to its expression.

With constantly renewed curiosity and creative attention to his own way of proceeding, each student will feel Breathing become easier, greater freedom in day-to-day activities


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.

Kurssin opetuskieli: englanti /
Teaching language: English

Paikka / Place:
Studio Yama
(Aleksanterin teatterin 4. kerros)
Bulevardi 27, Helsinki


Kurssin hinta / Price: 195€
Tili / Account: FI66 5318 0920 0227 34 // Viesti / Message: FC 2023


Ilmoittautumiset ja tiedustelut / Registration and info:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358 40 832 8519 / Marie Körkkö

Tervetuloa!
Welcome!


Osanottajamäärä on rajoitettu – paikat täytetään ilmoittautumisjärjestyksessä. /
The number of participants is limited – places are filled in order of registration.

Ilmoittautuminen on voimassa heti kun kurssimaksu on maksettu. /
Registration is valid as soon as the course fee has been paid.