WHAT I DO: MY TOOLBOX
My passion is to create somatic learning experiences that help you move and function with comfort and ease. Feel better in your body and in yourself so you can do what you love to do in life!
To see if we would be a good fit, take a look below at the skillset and approaches I incorporate into my work with clients.
I call these things “MY TOOLBOX”.
MY YOGA APPROACH
MINDFUL YOGA
Yoga as a way of coming home to ourSELVES.
A mindful, person, centred exploration with curiosity and gentleness at it’s core.
Inspired by the thinking of Vanda Scaravelli, informed by The Feldenkrais Method®
The Scaravelli inspired approach focuses on developing a very different experience of core strength strength and stability, through releasing tension and creating ease and length in the spine.
It is a stress-free yoga that benefits everyone.
It uses the breath and gravity to un-do holding patterns that we all accumulate and allows the spine to move more efficiently and effortlessly.
Allowing for more freedom and ease of movement that is energising to the whole body.
THE BENEFITS FOR YOU
• Manage stress levels
• Find calm and clarity
• Discover ease of movement
• Become more comfortable in your body
• Increase energy stores and feel vital
“Ruth’s class has been the most rewarding yoga experience I have had to date. She presents yoga not only as a spiritual and physical exercise but also as a personal one. She is able to teach postures in a way that allows the student to reach their individual potential by instructing in a positive, non-critical way.”
Tal
Felden… WHAT?
“The Feldenkrais Method is not just pushing muscles around, but really changing things in the brain.”
_ Dr. Karl Pribram – Neuroscientist, Stanford University
We all develop inefficient habits without realizing, that put stress on muscles and ligaments overtime. Imagine finding a way to do what you want easily and more efficiently?
FELDENKRAIS METHOD
The Feldenkrais Method is a powerful, innovative approach to learning. Blending biology, physics, neuroscience, and motor development, it is designed to engage with our brain’s “neuroplasticity,” (our brain’s awesome ability to change, rewire itself, adapt and repair), to benefit our body and how we move and function in life.
Through gentle movement combined with directed, relaxed attention, you will increase your ease and range of motion, improve your flexibility and coordination, rediscover graceful, efficient movement and re find your natural ability to move, think and feel with spontaneity, joy and ease. What’s not to like!!
Feldenkrais lessons are safe, gentle, and suitable for people of all ages and abilities. They help you change habitual patterns of posture and self-use and improve your physical comfort. Whether you want to be more comfortable sitting at your computer, playing with your children and grandchildren, re-learn skills and function following an injury or stroke, improve and refine performance skills, or simply feel more stable and present doing what you love, this respectful, potent approach will give you back more choice and more freedom.
This learning process can be experienced in two different ways:
Exercises called Awareness Through Movement® and individual hands-on sessions called Functional Integration®.
YOU WILL LEARN
Improve how you move, think and feel
Reduce tension, pain and stress
Discover how your movement habits are contributing to your pain/tension
Increase flexibility, mobility and balance
Move with more ease, efficiency and enjoyment
Be more comfortable in yourSELF
Heighten your mental awareness and creativity
Explore a different approach to learning, full of pleasant surprises and personal breakthroughs
Playing Big
My work is infused with compassionate, generative thinking and strategies. As a Playing Big Facilitator I incorporate into my work empowering, kind-hearted tools and frameworks that foster and enhance each person’s unique learning experience, help meet challenging situations and affirm personal discoveries and breakthroughs.
“When I first received the diagnosis on my knee and hip, following my fall, I couldn’t see how it was going to get better. But thanks to you I am in a totally different place. The Functional Integration lessons have really helped. I felt a definite change within the first 3 sessions. I am moving with much more freedom and agility: back swimming and playing tennis. And best thing..not in pain anymore!.”
PATRICK
TRAIN WITH ME
“Over the decades my body had seized up and as I reached my 60th Birthday I wanted to, at the very least, stop the decline into rigidity, and perhaps reverse it.
After two years of working with Ruth, I am significantly more bendy than I ever expected. It is her blending of Feldenkrais with Yoga that has brought about the change.”