Al's Feldenkrais Class
Regain Your Youthful Movement
Longmont Senior Center: 303-651-8411
Ages: 55 and up, exceptions per the instructor
Dates: Continuous
Time: Tuesdays, 10 am – 11 am
Cost: $32 resident, $36 nonresident or those younger than 55 years of age. Cost varies depending on the number of classes each month.
Location: Room E in the Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave, Longmont
Droppin: $9 – Pay at the front desk before class and bring Al your receipt.
What is Awareness Through Movement?
Awareness Through Movement is a series of verbally guided, gentle, slow and organized movements typically done on the floor in a group setting. Lessons may also be done sitting or standing. These lessons guide students’ awareness toward sensing their own movement patterns, exploring new ways of moving, and integrating more choice into their movement habits.
No prior experience is necessary. People of all ages and skill level are welcome. Lessons are taught to all levels. Bring your curiosity and wear comfortable clothing. Mats are provided. If you want extra support for your neck or shoulder, feel free to bring a towel.
What Happens in a Feldenkrais Class?
Watch this excellent introductory video to Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) by the UK Feldenkrais Guild. See how an ATM class in conducted and hear from students about their experiences.
What People say about Al's teaching
“Al is amazingly good at guiding you into states of ease, clarity, comfort, and freedom of movement that may have been constrained by years of habitual patterns. His methods are therapeutic and effective. You can feel the difference and it feels good.”
“In my thirty plus years as an educator, I never taught or mentored a teacher as dedicated or effective as Al. Al’s level of mastery translates to a happy, healthy, active, life long learner of seventy-seven years that attempts to attend a class taught by Al every week. Thank you, Al, for the joy that you bring to my life.
“I’m feeling differences in all my everyday movements like getting up and down off the couch and moving in the kitchen getting dinner. I was looking for a little relief; I didn’t know I would get a transformation.”
Al's Class Recordings
Al Wadleigh
Explore several key functions of the eyes through movement and imagination - saccades, smooth tracking movements, convergence, and divergence.
Al Wadleigh
This lesson creates a powerful ease and openness through the entire chest and back. Movements of the spine through the chest help to differentiate ribs and vertebra.
This lesson is an exploration of the movements of flexion. This creates length in the front of us and eases the muscular work of the back.
By working in various positions and turning the heel or heels out to sides, you begin to cultivate agility in the ankles and lower legs.
This lesson cultivates a twist through the torso coordinating the flexors and extensors. Alternately expanding the chest and abdomen improves the twisting.
Al Wadleigh
Your breath is developed into four parts and coordinated with the rhythmical movements of your hand or fingers. Be ready for a surprise or two!
Al Wadleigh
This lesson explores many ways of engaging the flexor system and as a result, creating length in the flexors and ease in the back.
Al Wadleigh
This lesson has many variations of circling the pelvis. It is great for freeing the hip joints and lower back while integrating the spine and the head.