Finding Your Footing: A Feldenkrais Mini-Retreat (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Feeling stuck? Having a hard time moving your body, much less moving your life? How are your feet? Tired, sore, achy? Do you find yourself looking for the perfect pair of shoes (no matter how ugly) to get you through the day without hurting? Join Gika Rector for a gentle exploration of standing and moving forward – physically and perhaps imaginally. This Feldenkrais mini-retreat focuses on the feet as both a metaphor and as a physical experience to explore how we find easier stability, balance, and movement.

$75

Making Space: Felting Around a Ball (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Felt-making is a rich creative experience for the senses. Enjoy this contemporary approach to an ancient fiber medium. Wrap a beach ball with luscious and colorful merino wool, cover it with pantyhose, add soap and water, and bounce! With a bit of work, the wool becomes a felted sphere—perhaps a purse, a bag, or some other vessel. No previous experience necessary, just curiosity and a willingness to have some fun.

$85

Reaching Out: A Feldenkrais Mini-Retreat (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Extending our arms is an important part of everyday functioning. Reaching high to grab something, reaching out for a hug, reaching down to pick up a bag. These all seem like simple, everyday movements—until they’re not. Through simple, gentle movement sequences, we will explore ways to reach out more simply and easily, and maybe even leave being able to reach a bit farther.

$75

Felt Hearts (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

With colorful wool fibers, a little soapy water, and some manipulation, we'll explore techniques for creating for two- and three-dimensional hearts. It’s magical, hands-on fun!

$75

Unlocking the Rib Cage—Opening the Heart: A Feldenkrais Mini-Retreat (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

The rib cage is a marvelous thing. It’s a basket-like structure that protects the heart and lungs. It’s strong, but it’s also surprisingly flexible. For many of us, this flexibility is diminished. We move our chests as if they were solid blocks of stone. When we discover how to soften this basket of bones, all kinds of movement get easier. When the rib cage gets unlocked, we breathe better, we bend and turn more easily, and we stand a little taller.

$75

Tiny Felt Vessels (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Starting with a handful of superfine, dyed merino wool and small plastic balls, participants will create at least 2 or 3 small felt bowls or vessels—containers for little treasures or big ideas. With a little soapy water and some manipulation, the loose fibers are transformed into beautiful and functional objects. It’s magical, hands-on fun!

$75

Unlocking the Neck and Shoulders: Feldenkrais for a Head Held High (Online)

Online via The Jung Center (Houston)

Do you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders? Do headaches, shoulder pain and tension in your upper back keep you from doing what you want to do? Neck and shoulder pain are common complaints—especially as we spend more time using our phones and other smart devices—that often limit what we can do on a daily basis. Come and learn some simple movements to help reduce discomfort in your shoulders and neck. See if you don’t stand taller and move more easily at the end of the day. It is time to leave that “pain in the neck” behind!

$20

Unlocking the Neck and Shoulders: Feldenkrais for a Head Held High (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Do you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders? Do headaches, shoulder pain and tension in your upper back keep you from doing what you want to do? Neck and shoulder pain are common complaints—especially as we spend more time using our phones and other smart devices—that often limit what we can do on a daily basis. Come and learn some simple movements to help reduce discomfort in your shoulders and neck. See if you don’t stand taller and move more easily at the end of the day. It is time to leave that “pain in the neck” behind!

$20

Open Your Mouth: An Exploration of the Mouth, Tongue, Lips, and Jaw (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Easily taken for granted until we experience pain, the mouth is an intricate part of our human experience. Before we’re even born, we begin to move the mouth, perhaps even sucking the thumb. It’s one of the first things that babies explore. Turning to suckle, making noises, bringing the hands to the mouth. For all kinds of reasons, as we get along in life, we also tend to restrict the movements of the mouth, sometimes even clamping it shut. In this Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement workshop, we’ll explore anew the possibilities inherent in opening the mouth, moving the tongue, forming sounds, and relaxing the jaw.

$20

Create a Nuno Felt Scarf (in Person)

The Jung Center (Houston) 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

Create your own unique scarf with silk fabric and super-fine merino wool fibers. Felting colorful wool fibers into the silk cloth creates a lightweight and beautifully textured scarf, perfect for the early spring. It’s magical, hands-on fun! All materials will be provided, and no special skills are required.

$80