Kate Hilder | Feldenkrais classes and workshops Ireland

Ireland

Feldenkrais In Person classes and workshops

I offer Feldenkrais Method classes both in-person across the UK and Ireland,
and virtually through online sessions.

A Strong & Supple Spine

Sunday 23rd March, 12.30 to 3.30pm,
Ennis Yoga Centre

with Kate Hilder & Stephen Wallace

During this workshop you’ll explore the movement of your spine, which is designed to be both incredibly strong yet highly flexible. However, due to postural habits, many of us are only able to articulate certain parts of our spine, while other areas move as a single unit, often leading to discomfort or back pain

By tuning into how you move, you’ll discover how to lengthen and spread mobility throughout your whole spine. This can help to release tension in your neck and shoulders, ease lower back pain and bring a sense of freedom and agility to your everyday activities.

Venue: Ennis Yoga Studio, Friary Car Park,
Francis Street, Ennis V95 AO37

Cost:
€35 early bird (by 17th March) or €45 after that.

Feldenkrais and Yoga Retreat

1st to 3rd November 2024, Spanish Point, County Clare

with Clare O Dea & Kate Hilder

A weekend retreat with two teachers offering different but complementary approaches to movement and self-awareness.

Join us for a restorative weekend of gentle movement, mindful breathing and deep relaxation in a breathtaking location on Ireland’s wild Atlantic coast.

Hosted by experienced teachers Kate Hilder and Clare O Dea, this retreat offers a unique opportunity to explore how mindful attention can bring ease, comfort, and joy to your movement, helping you feel more at home in your body. With their gentle and supportive approach, Kate and Clare are excited to combine their expertise to offer this workshop.

This retreat is for anyone wanting to improve their flexibility, balance, posture and breathing. With a focus on simplicity and presence you will experience how these two approaches interweave to enhance your self-understanding, emotional well-being and physical comfort.

The Feldenkrais Method is a somatic approach using movement and directed attention. Through the Feldenkrais explorations you will become aware of habits that may be limiting your yoga practice and learn how to bring more ease to your practice by reducing effort, increasing sensitivity, and expanding your attention to your whole self as you move. The yoga sessions will include asanas (physical practice), pranayama (breathing), yoga nidra (deep relaxation) and meditation. The retreat is designed to meet you at your level, whether you are new to yoga and Feldenkrais or an experienced practitioner.

Set in Spanish Point, West Clare, with stunning sea views from both the practice room and most of the single bedrooms, this retreat offers the perfect space for relaxation and renewal. You’ll also have time to explore the surrounding area and connect with the beauty of Ireland’s Atlantic coast.

Times:
Friday 5pm to Sunday 2pm

Venue:
Spirituality House, Breaffy South, Spanish Point, Co. Clare, V95 E0W7.

Cost:
€360 early bird (by 16th October) or €390 after that. Price includes teaching, accommodation and vegetarian food (breakfast, lunch & dinner)

A €100 non-refundable deposit will secure your place.

“What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.”

Moshe Feldenkrais

The Classes

Feldenkrais classes are called Awareness through Movement®. You’ll be guided, by the verbal instructions of the teacher, through a series of intriguing movement explorations usually lying on a mat but sometimes in sitting and standing. Each class promises a novel experience due to the wide array of lessons designed by Moshe Feldenkrais. Through increasing your attention and decreasing your effort you’ll learn how to unravel unwanted movement habits and discover new, efficient and more graceful ways of moving and engaging in life.

This holistic approach promises emotional as well as physical benefits and a profound connection with oneself.

I teach classes and workshops both online and in person. See Classes/Workshops for more info.

Try this 20 minute Awareness through Movement class here.

Individual Lessons

Functional integration® is a one-to-one Feldenkrais session where the practitioner guides you through different movement patterns using touch. Every session is unique as it’s in response to your needs and questions, whether you suffer from chronic tension and pain, you want to improve your balance, co-ordination or posture or you simply want to move with more freedom.

After an initial chat, we will investigate movements while sitting and standing related to the questions you have. You will then lie down, fully clothed, on a low, wide table and we will continue this exploration using gentle touch. At the end, I may suggest movements to practise at home in order to integrate the learning from the session into your daily living.

The first session is around 75 minutes, with subsequent ones lasting an hour.

I offer individual lessons in Ennis and Limerick in Ireland and in Seaton, East Devon in the UK as well as online.

Online sessions include observing how you move and verbally guiding you through movements which address your habitual holding patterns. You will receive a recording of each session that you can return to in your own time.