Meet the Presenters
Encore of the Online Movement Festival
12th – 28th February 2023
Humanise Yourself
Unleash Your Potential
For the Americans Humanize
Festival Encore is happening 12th- 28th February
- all the replay’s,
- live March Masterclasses, and
- HUGE bonus bundle in the VIP experience.
Host
Angela McMillan
Welcome to our second Online Movement Festival.
3 amazing keynote speakers
14 presentations and movement lessons from the Movement Online Academy Dream Team – Each one with their own unique perspectives on how to reach your human potential with The Feldenkrais Method. 20min presentation followed by an Awareness Through Movement designed to give you an embodied experience of the theme
I’m your host. I had a dream to share Feldenkrais with the world when I started my practice online in 2016. Inside the Embodiment Business Network, I now coach my wonderful colleagues all over the world to share their wonderful gifts using the power of the internet.
Angela BIO
The latest scientific research into the brain/body tells us movement can help us live a better life with greater calm, more focus and less pain. Angela McMillan is a speaker and coach on transformational movement. With over 20 years of training as a movement professional with her experience as a Feldenkrais Practitioner® and Dance Teacher, including 5 years of training as online coaching.
Speaker, Coach and Author Angela is the Creator of Movement Online Academy and CEO of Embodiment Business Network. Angela shares what is at the cutting edge of neuroscience and brain/body connection and how anyone can enhance their business and life with movement. Speciality programs on the pelvic floor, women’s health, and flexibility (for Yoga and Dance professionals).
Angela lives in Adelaide with her little two-man army (young boys) and enjoys reading and writing in her courtyard garden.
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Key Note Speaker
Irene Lyon
Irene Lyon, MSC. and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives. To date, her online programs and classes have reached over 9,500 people in over 90 countries. Irene has a Master’s Degree in Biomedical and Health Science and also has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She has extensively studied and practices the works of Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais, Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing) and Kathy Kain (founder of Somatic Practice). Irene spends her free time eating delicious food, hiking in the mountains or walking along the Pacific Ocean in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Key Note Speaker
Alan Questel
Finding the potency in your human potential
Alan BIO
Alan S. Questel is known for his clarity, creativity and down to earth style of teaching while bringing a depth of understanding, humor and a gentle human perspective to learning the Method. Trained by Dr. Feldenkrais, he teaches in and directs Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs in the USA, Australia, Europe, Japan and South America. He is the author of Creating Creativity, creator of Pregnant Pauses – Movement for Moms as well as 19 Feldenkrais-Awareness Through Movement CD sets for the public. His new book on Kindness will be released soon and his current trainings are in Santa Fe, NM and upcoming in Aurillac, France
Key Note Speaker
Richard Goldsand
Feldenkrais and Tensegrity
Richard’s presentation takes a deep dive into the structural model of tensegrity and why it’s important for healthy movement.
Tensegrity – or tensile integrity – is a type of structural model that relies on the continuous balance of tension and compression within an interconnected structure. If you pull or strain one part, you create a push on another part and vice versa. If there is no push, you won’t have the pull.
The body is an interconnected system that operates as a tensegrity model.
This means to experience easy and harmonious movement, we need to create equal and opposite push/pull or tension/compression within the body. When the body overworks or underworks too much or too little (or not at all), the structural integrity is thrown out of balance.
Using easy-to-follow visual aids, Richard will show why it’s the intersection of these opposing push/pull movements that are important for us to gain clarity, coordination and choice in our everyday movements.
Richard BIO
For those of us who have fallen in love with the Feldenkrais Method and its work, sometimes it’s hard to understand how come people don’t get “it“. Our work can seem magical, and mysterious, or sometimes I/we didn’t understand “how “ this miraculous experience just happened. The intersection of the Feldenkrais Method and the Tensegrity model I believe allows us to have a more accurate internal experience which allows us to explain some of these moments.
Rich has worked successfully with artistic performers, high-achieving athletes, individuals wishing to combat everyday stressors of life, and medical professionals seeking complementary therapies for clients.
Since 2000 Rich has taught the Feldenkrais Method in the ASU Dance Department and has served as Feldenkrais Educational consultant for various ASU Athletic teams including men’s baseball, football, and women’s basketball. He also trained members of the US Olympic Diving Team and in his private practice he has worked with prominent professional athletes.
Rich has been sharing his work for the past 30 years, from his private practice to his own Feldenkrais/Tensegrity workshops in Germany, Austria ,Japan and Australia, to assisting in Feldenkrais Training Programs worldwide.
Rich Goldsand was trained in Marin County, California. Rich was first introduced to the Feldenkrais® Method in 1988 through his oldest daughter who was receiving lessons for her own movement difficulties. He began his studies of mind/body perspectives and human potential when he became certified in the Feldenkrais Method® In 1994.
Listen to the replays in the VIP experience package
PRESENTER
Lisa Darlene Ponichter
Accessing Your Inner Guidance
Five Awareness tools for enhancing freedom and more of what you want in life!
Feldenkrais takes us on a journey of inner awareness which can be helpful for decreasing pain, increasing movement and freedom. Lisa will share 4 other tools that helped her in her own healing from chronic pain and journey towards freedom. These are tools that can be used interchangeably.
Movement Lesson: Soft Knees
Creating more cushioning through your spine and leg connections to help your walking and decrease pain!
Lisa Darlene Ponichter - BIO
Pain can be multifactorial and very frustrating especially when it stops you from doing what you enjoy. Lisa is a PT who found relief from chronic pain with Feldenkrais. She became a practitioner herself to share the method that goes above and beyond what traditional PT can do. For 20+ years she’s been helping people return to what they love.
PRESENTER
Erin Finkelstein
How to Smash Jaw Pain through a Blissful, Mindful, Stress-Less Process
Movement Lesson: Whole body approach to alleviating Jaw pain.
Learn what supports your jaw
Learn how to access that support at anytime
Learn how to interrupt the pain cycle and choose a more comfortable way to move
Erin BIO
Child-like comfort and joy in movement is possible at every age, and with any activity. Erin is a classically trained musician (M.M.) and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner with over 15 years of professional experience as a somatic movement educator and performer, both in-person and online. Erin has helped hundreds of people from all professions, ages, and walks of life, to learn how to move with more ease and perform pain-free. In her private practice, Sound Movement Services, as well as through courses and workshops for Universities and Community Colleges, she brings a compassionate and knowledgeable approach to helping you live a more skilled, creative, and vibrant life.
PRESENTER
Margaret Kaye
I hand it to you
Hands have been called the outer brain, and even more intelligent than the brain! Hands are often the first point of contact with the environment, and moving our hands can be a primary way of communicating. Yet not all of us have full capacity, or they can get tired, or injured, and if so how can we improve the functionality of our hands, and arms so we can access them to best make our way through the world in the ways we wish. We will explore the quality, function and meaning of touch and the meaning and culture of gesture.
Movement Lesson: Surgeon’s Hands
When Moshe Feldenkrais attended eye surgery he was unhappy with the quality of touch from the surgeons. So he taught them how to refine their actions so the hands could be more responsive and kind. We will explore the quality of touch and how this impacts on our brains.
Margaret Kaye - BIO
At the age of 23 Margaret was told she could never work again. Due to the Occupational Overuse injury she was unable to work for several years. Until she discovered the Feldenkrais Method of Movement could enable her to learn how to change her embodied patterns. This is now a speciality area, amongst others. Margaret also specialises in working with performers, such as actors, musicians and athletes.
Live online lesson program included in the VIP experience
PRESENTER
Erifily Nikola
The secret to pain free sitting at the desk
Why ergonomics have failed us and how can we find comfort in sitting.
A small lecture, followed by a small movement lesson.”
“Why do we suffer so much sitting at our desks?
Erifily Nikola shares her secrets for a good seated posture.
A graphic designer turned somatic practitioner, Erifily has personal experience of both the problem and the solution.
Movement Lesson: Mapping out the Pelvis
A lesson to free your hips and balance your sit bones.
Erifily Nikola - BIO
Erifily Nikola is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (Basel 2012) and Kripalu Yoga Teacher (Massachusetts 2008) with a passion for both the human body and the human potential.
She lives in Athens, Greece, and teaches Feldenkrais and Yoga to people around the world in Greek & English.
In her classes, she offers people the space and time to unfold at their own pace.
PRESENTER
Daniel Gelblum
Uplift yourself and uplift yourself out of pain
Developing bodily optimism and getting rid of physical and emotional pain, while developing inner strength. through listening to body movements.
Tune into and develop the feelings of self improvement and advancement of yourself. This gentle movement lesson will bring good vibes that come through learning about yourself/body and let the developing sensations wash through you to get rid of body aches/pains while improving our mood, posture and more.
I did this in my 4 year training, but have developed it further.
Movement Lesson: Uplift yourself and uplift yourself out of pain.
Developing bodily optimism and getting rid of physical and emotional pain, while developing inner strength. through listening to body movements.
Daniel Gelblum - BIO
As a highly skilled Feldenkrais practitioner, Daniel Gelblum uses his method in combination with his experience of Yoga, Massage, Pilates, and Martial Arts to deliver exceptional results. He focuses on fine movements resulting in rapid progress in flexibility and strength.
He qualified to teach Yoga in London after living in India for six months where he learnt Osteotherapy massage at the Limaye Clinic, Pune. He has since trained in Shiatsu, Acupressure, and Sports Massage. He is a member of the Feldenkrais Guild. His caring nature and effective techniques mean that his classes are much loved and all students feel immediate and long-term benefits.
PRESENTER
Christine Germain
Move Away from Pain into a Stronger You!
Tapping into your full potential while still respecting your own limits. I will give you tools to regain authority so that you are empowered to improve your well-being, move away from pain into a stronger version of you, using principles from the Feldenkrais Method and adapt it to your daily activities or your next movement class. We’ll start by bringing attention to your own patterns. We tend to stop our breathing when dealing with pain or learning something new. This Awareness Through Movement lesson will help you noticing when this happens and therefore empower you to change your habits.
Movement Lesson: Stopping the breath
Christine Germain BIO
As a movement professional who had her fair share of injuries and an intimate relationship with chronic pain, Christine Germain helps individuals overcome the obstacles
towards a more fulfilling life. She offers tools tailored to individuals, to help them manage their pain, reach higher level of autonomy, and enhance performance.
Her experience includes working with people dealing with chronic pain, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. She also worked in Sports and Dance Medicine at St-Francis Memorial hospital in San Francisco, and with high level athletes in baseball, tennis, soccer, and at Cirque du Soleil.
What matters to her is to help people live life fully, and become the best version of themselves.”
PRESENTER
Fariya Doctor
Expanding Your Breathing Potential
Where do you find your attention when you breathe? We often have a habit of attention when it comes to noticing and changing our breathing. This lesson explores spaces we often don’t associate with breathing to expand our potential and inner world. Do you find breathing confusing?
Movemnt Lesson: Expanding the Self
This is an unconventional way to teach breathing, however you will feel a new sense of space and expansion. Be prepared for a positive shift in self image!” Contacting the Abdomen while exhaling
Fariya Doctor BIO
Over the last 20 years Fariya Doctor has studied many ways to breathe and has learned that a one size fits all approach to breathing is not the way to go. From watching her mother struggle with breathing when she was sick, to developing asthma as a teen, and anxiety as a new mom, she knows what it is to struggle. Grounded in science, Fariya has studied Biology in University and took anatomy and physiology in Massage School. By studying The Feldenkrais Method and the Buteyko Method of Breathing, Fariya has learned to find better, more functional ways to breathe.
PRESENTER
Sarah McAllum
The Power Of Play to Find Your Potential
If you think play is only ‘kids’ stuff’ it’s time to think again. Sarah’s presentation covers why our bodies and brains are built to benefit from play no matter what our age (and other fun stuff!).
Movement Lesson: Interlacing Your Fingers & Toes
Sarah McAllum BIO
Sarah McAllum knows movement and play are essential to getting the most out of life.
For years Sarah took herself too seriously in the corporate world, hated movement and battled back pain. When she discovered the powerful effects of Feldenkrais, functional movement and having fun, her life felt transformed.
Now a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner with a decade’s experience under her belt, Sarah’s real buzz is to help you be more playful, power up your everyday movement and find your spark.
Sarah is excited to bring the Power of Play to Find Your Potential to the second Online Movement Festival.
Day 3 – Saturday 15th / Sunday 16th October
PRESENTER
Barbara Anderson
Having pain in the neck is a pain in the neck
Neck pain is believed to effect 30 to 50% of the adult population in the U.S. In this workshop you will learn a safe, gentle method of restoring movement to the neck. I call my method the “wobble head “. After a taste of being a wobble head we will do an Awareness Through Movement class that improves the use of the whole spine in relationship to the head and neck. Barbara Anderson has been teaching people to move better for 40 years. She calls her system “Move like a kid again”. The best time to start moving younger is now. Do want to be strong and agile and energetic for a lifetime? Barbara’s awareness based movement classes will help you reach those goals.
Movement Lesson: Having neck pain is a pain in the neck
In this workshop you will get a taste of experiential learning (that means, feel it for yourself.) First you will increase your awareness by becoming a curious explorer and that curiousity will open new possiblities. Finally new patterns emerge.
Barbara Anderson BIO
Most pain has a movement component to it. A rising tide lifts all boats and better movement patterns reduce pain. Barbara has been teaching people to move better and enjoy moving for over 40 years. Holding a M.A. in dance, she has taught ballet, modern dance, aerobics, fitness, pilates and much more. For the last 30 years her focus has been yoga and the Feldenkrais Method. She calls her method Move Like A Kid Again. “
PRESENTER
Sonja Johansson
Enliven your Spine: Mend & Mind your Back.
Sustainable movement for a healthy and happy back.
If you suffer from back pain, life can be pretty miserable. Beyond the discomfort and sleepless nights, there’s the disappointment of missing out on activities you love. If you’ve accepted your back pain as just a part of getting older, this presentation will give you new hope and inspiration. A practical approach to reconnecting with the inherent support of your skeleton, this program is a fusion of clinically proven strengthening exercises and pain science, presented through through the lens of mind-body movement. It can reduce back pain, increase your confidence to move and protect you from future problems.
Movement Lesson: An Adaptive Back:
An Adaptive Back: Your spine can be move like a Wave (fluid and flexible) or Axis (tethered and stable). Learn how to access each mode of action to respond to daily demands.
Sonja Johansson BIO
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PRESENTER
Ralph Hadden
Move your mood
You can influence your mood. You can shift more towards enthusiasm and out of apathy, towards being more positive and productive and away from negativity and lethargy.
The key is in your movement and posture. You can use physical activity (or inactivity) and your stance to improve or worsen your mood. Science research proves your habitual postures and behaviours are shaping your emotions and energy levels every minute of your day.
My talk will explain how body and movement influence your mood and provide you with 3 simple yet powerful tools you can use immediately to “Move your mood”. You can spend more time being positive and productive by using these 3 tools.”
Movement Lesson: Unfolding flower:
Move between different body shapes to explore shifting between safety (limitation) and vulnerability (power and potential).
Ralph Hadden - BIO
BA CFP is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and member of the Australian Feldenkrais Guild Inc. He has over forty years’ experience in movement and body therapies as a practitioner, teacher and trainer of teachers. He has been teaching Feldenkrais since 1988 and is accredited as an Assistant Trainer.
He practises Feldenkrais in Melbourne, Australia and has taught nationally and internationally. He was editor of “Feldenkrais Australia”, the journal of the Australian Feldenkrais Guild Inc., from 2012 to 2018. His book, “”Your 14 day Pelvis Program”” will be published soon.”
PRESENTER
Ruth Polden
Grow Yourself Tenderly
Biologically we are in a constant state of growth, renewal and change. Yet often our sense of ourself is stuck in time.
We will discuss how we can stay gently listening, creating more possibility and expanding our potential as we move through life.
Becoming more of who you really are.
Movement Lesson: Finding your heel with your hand
Ruth Polden BIO
“How we move directly impacts how we think and feel about ourselves. Ruth has been exploring this professionally for over 30 years as a movement specialist. She helps people move with comfort, ease and efficiency and function better in what they love to do in life.
A Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Yoga teacher and former dancer /choreographer. She brings a rich, dimensional approach to working with people, creating transformational learning experiences.
Ruth is Co-Director of the YogaBirth Training Course, and on the faculty of the London Yoga Teacher Training Group, preparing yoga teachers of the future.
PRESENTER
Madeleine Edgar
Aging more easily
Movement Lesson: Reaching with your whole self to free you from inefficient old habits
Madeleine Edgar - BIO
Madeleine Edgar, is a retired Physiotherapist and Feldenkrais Practitioner. She wants to share the Feldenkrais Method with you because it has helped her so much in her life! She is 85 and still get down on the floor every day to explore and play! Try her Marvellous Movement books for yourself
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Humanise Yourself
Unleash Your Potential
Encore
12th–28th February 2023
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Does the VIP experience include everything?
Everything you see inside the Festival is included in the VIP upgrade PLUS the bonus bundle. And if you enjoyed listening to the festival podcast get access to everything via the VIP upgrade podcast.
PLUS You get to join us for the very special 2-week Camp program (November 2022) and a month-long masterclass movement program in March 2023. With all the presenters and invited guests.
How do I attend the Camp and March Movement Month program?
The Camp is held live from October 31st – November 11th and the movement month is throughout March 2023. You get access to all the replays. Times will be determined by the VIP member’s location. The program details will be emailed to you closer to the event. It will also be posted in our ongoing exclusive VIP community.
How long do I have access to the VIP experience?
For as long as you stay in the Movement Online Academy. Joining the VIP experience means you become part of the community. This platform allows you to interact with other like-minded people. You are a part of something bigger than a 3-day Festival. We plan to be here for a very long time. You will be part of the planning for future events and the direction of this community. Very exciting to be on the ground floor. You get to ask for what you want and we can see if it is possible.
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The Humanise Yourself Festival program is open until the 19th of October. After that, the doors to the Festival will close until our next Festival. All the content will be available inside the new VIP upgrade course. The wider community will be open for you to stay with lots of events planned and regular content to read, watch, and listen to.
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BONUS 1:
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BONUS 2
- March Movement Month of online workshops (March 2023)
BONUS 3 – 10:
- Super special HUGE Audio/Video bundle from the Dream team. See FAQs for full bonus details.