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Classes & Workshops
Access more of yourself—without adding strain.
Feldenkrais classes and workshops support learning that frees up capacity, and restores ease—through awareness, not force.
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New students are welcome. Use your first class to explore the work and discover how it feels.
Access more ease, clarity, and capability—without adding strain.
Most people assume that improvement requires more effort, more discipline, or more pushing.
In these classes and workshops, you’ll discover something different:
When effort is better organized, more becomes available.
Through gentle, attentive movement, Feldenkrais lessons help you reclaim capacity that may be tied up in unnecessary tension, inefficient habits, or unconscious holding.
As effort redistributes, sensing widens, coordination improves, and movement becomes lighter and more intelligent.
Begin wherever you are.

How Learning Works Here

Lasting change doesn’t come from forcing the self to be different. It comes from creating the right conditions for learning.
In Feldenkrais classes, we begin by reducing wasted effort—not to do less, but to free up resources that are already there. As this happens:
- Support shifts back to the skeleton, allowing muscles to move instead of brace
- The nervous system moves out of protection and into exploration
- Breathing regains its natural range and responsiveness
- Sensing expands beyond isolated problem areas into a whole-self experience
When the system feels safe enough to reorganize, new options emerge naturally.
This is the underlying rhythm of all classes and workshops here:
Ease → Awareness → Choice → Change
A Learning Environment Designed for Change
Every class and workshop is shaped to support learning at the nervous-system level.
That means the environment is:
- Slow enough to notice
- Gentle enough to trust
- Pleasurable enough to explore
- Curious enough to invite discovery
There is no pressure to perform, stretch, or “get it right.”
The emphasis is on sensing clearly, resting often, and allowing improvement to arise through awareness.
This approach doesn’t take effort away—it helps you get more out of it.

Ways to Explore
You’re invited to enter this work through different containers, depending on what fits your life and curiosity right now.
Not Sure Where to Begin?
There’s no wrong entry point.
If you’d like guidance, you’re welcome to reach out directly—or begin with a free lesson to get a feel for the work.
What People Notice Over Time
- Movement feels lighter, smoother, more coordinated
- A calmer, more responsive nervous system
- Breathing that feels fuller and less restricted
- Greater comfort in daily activities
- Increased clarity in how effort is organized
- A renewed sense of confidence and possibility
Each class is an invitation to sense more of yourself—and to use what you discover in life.
You don’t need to add more effort to change.
You may simply need to access more of yourself.
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"Al Wadleigh is a phenomenal Feldenkrais practitioner. Through his lessons I have experienced a dramatic decrease in chronic pain, greater mobility, and a resiliency which allows for quicker recovery time after injury."
Constance Hunter
Longmont, CO
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“Al is an incredible Feldenkrais practitioner and teacher. I was amazed how effective the classes were in reducing pain, improving strength and movement. I highly recommend this class for anyone who has had a stroke or as an adjunct for anyone undergoing physical therapy.”
Liz Dunn
Cerrillos, New Mexico
Getting Ready
Guides to Help You on Your Journey
What's a Lesson Like?
Watch this excellent video from the Feldenkrais Guild UK®. Andrew Dawson presents a short film demonstrating a classic Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson, “Rolling up to Sit and Stand.”



