The Ground Beneath Us:
Generating Power

Self-paced online Feldenkrais Awareness Through
Movement® series with Donna Wood

"Donna Wood’s knowledge of the Feldenkrais Method is broad and deep. She’s a creative teacher who works effectively with a wide range of people. She’s spent years weaving her knowledge of Aikido and Feldenkrais together which will certainly shine in this upcoming course." -Elizabeth Beringer, Feldenkrais Trainer

This series will cultivate the
life within us and around us.

Like a seed germinating in the earth, we will find the internal and external bases of support that help us to grow in all directions -simultaneously pushing against the ground and being embraced by her.

We will explore safety and support in movement with the idea of being rooted to a deeply felt sense of place.

Martial Arts Concepts + Feldenkrais principles

Our examination of martial arts concepts and Feldenkrais principles will allow for challenges to emerge from what is easy. The experience of the interrelated concepts of safety, support, ease and comfort allow us to move seamlessly into the territory of challenges. We will delve into breathing; enriching our ability to experience a connection to ourself and our environment and our challenges.

Moshe Feldenkrais was a judo man. His practice of Judo made his ideas about how we learn concrete, solidly connecting us to gravity and the ground. The earth, the ground, the soil is what sustains and supports us.

Through this series we will discover the transmission of power through the pelvis, and our relationship to ground forces. We will learn to generate power from what is simple when we discover the Ground Beneath Us.

(Photo of Moshe Feldenkrais used in collage above © International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive)

Series includes:

8 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons

Access to videos & downloadable audio recordings

“I am excited to share my approach to the Feldenkrais Method, informed by my martial arts and dance training. These disciplines have shaped my life in unexpected ways. The Method is dynamic, but it is also small–with tiny, sensing differences.” -Donna Wood

What People Are Saying:

“Having the class itself, meeting weekly to reacquaint myself with my body's connection to the earth, and having tools and movements that can make that connection more alive and more pleasurable was a gift.” - Semerit Strachan, Wellness and Leadership Coach, artist, author

“Highlights for me were the lessons: Seismic Shifts and Baby Foxes as there were movements introduced in these lessons that I felt I’d never done before! This surprised me after a lifetime of dance and yoga and generally thinking of myself as a “mover”! I love Donna’s straight-ahead approach to instruction. I find her very clear and her directions easy to follow. I also like the little images she provides and how she can give many images for one movement so that it becomes richer and more layered in my felt experience of it as she speaks.” - April Nunes, Yoga Teacher

“More power comes from doing less! Had to learn that one over and over. Like almost every week for the first half of the series...And then right around week 4 or 5, it came naturally to stop more, to do less, to pay attention to the precise point when it stops being easy.”

About Donna Wood:

Donna Wood has been teaching and exploring the Feldenkrais Method for 25 years. She holds a black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido and the rank of Professor in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira. Her lifelong immersion in dance and martial arts informs both her life and her teaching.

Donna is a Spanish speaker.  She lives and has a private practice on both sides of the border. She works with athletes, dancers, musicians, people recovering from injuries, those experiencing pain, children, people with age-related issues, and people with disabilities. She teaches in France, Italy, and Greece. Donna has the additional certification of Assistant Trainer and teaches in four-year Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs.

Donna views the Feldenkrais Method as a means to “hew away” at our habits and old patterns, in order to discover our full potential. As Michelangelo said, “In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood in front of me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to other eyes as mine see it.”