Feldenkrais for Yoga

Yoga through the Lens of the Feldenkrais Method

with Sara Elderfield

Learn how to move, then enjoy moving.

These classes approach yoga as a learning process. Using principles from the Feldenkrais Method, you’ll discover how to move with greater ease, clarity, and comfort—making yoga postures feel more accessible and enjoyable. Yoga postures and transitions are explored through seven key physical elements: breath • forward bends • backward bends • side bends • twists • balance poses • inversions.

Each week you will:

·        gently explore all seven elements for a complete experience, with a deeper focus on one

·        learn how to organise your body for easier, more efficient movement

·        learn about one aspect of the philosophical principles of yoga, explored through experience rather than theory—supporting a practice that extends into daily life

·        reduce unnecessary effort

·        improve coordination and posture

·        develop sensitivity and self-awareness

·        discover your own best way of moving

Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) is a guided movement process that uses attention and variation to engage the nervous system in learning. By refining sensory awareness (proprioceptive, vestibular, and visual), the brain updates how actions are organised, supporting neuroplastic change. Improvements in function — such as balance, agility, flexibility, coordination, and posture — emerge as a result of this learning, rather than through effort or correction.

Sara Elderfield is a Feldenkrais Method® Practitioner & Assistant Trainer. She is a long-time meditator and has taught yoga as a form of movement meditation practice for 25 years. Since 2000, she has been leading yoga, Feldenkrais®, meditation and hiking retreats to Bali, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam, France and Japan.

Dates & Times: Wednesdays from 10 June – 15 July, 8am – 9.15am and Thursdays from 11 June, 5.30pm – 6.45pm

Venue: Centre for Movement Studies & Yoga Moves Studio, 45 Evans Street, Shenton Park

Cost: by dana. Dana is often taken to simply mean donation or gift. Dana is a Buddhist teaching about generosity of spirit or the sharing of blessings, the aspiration to generate health and goodwill in all the cycles of giving and receiving; the transactions of daily life. In reflecting on the practice of dana one begins to understand the interdependence of life. Dana is a gift that supports the livelihood of the teacher and their family. In turn, the teachings offered are to support you in meeting with life with wisdom and compassion. Each being arrives at the amount of dana voluntarily. Teachers of the Dharma are supported by considerate donation. Following Buddhist tradition, Sara charges no fee for teaching. It is customary to offer dana at the beginning of the class (there is a bowl near the entrance of the teaching space or you can direct debit as before). Giving prior to the teaching supports the experience of openness and generosity.

Acc. name: Centre for Movement Studies BSB: 066 130 Acc No: 1036 6227

Enquiries: email sara@yogamoves.net.au or 0415 363 313.