“The aim is a body that is organized to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular strength but increased consciousness of how it works.”
- Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais
About SimpleMove
Currently my practice centres on individual lessons. I work with an interesting range of people from those living with pain or chronic conditions, people adjusting after weight loss surgery through to professional performers and musicians. I find the work exciting and stimulating. I also teach an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) class for Seniors and anticipate offering further group Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes soon.
I have a background in performance and adult education. It is wonderful to be teaching in movement and awareness education again and I am pleased to be making the Feldenkrais method available in Dunedin once more.
Qualifications
Feldenkrais Training, Melbourne 2008
Post Graduate Diploma in Drama, Auckland 1985
BA (Art History, German) Auckland 1984
Practice Hours
Monday - Friday 11am - 5pm
By appointment only*
* Appointments available at other times by arrangement. New clients always welcome.
Lessons are approximately 1 hour
Awareness Through Movement Classes: Please ring for current timetable and venue.
Testimonials
After seeing the amazing results my sister achieved with Feldenkrais after a serious accident resulting in a year in a wheelchair, I was open to trying Feldenkrais to deal with pain in my feet and lower back. Through working with Catherine and the Feldenkrais Method, I have found a more elegant way of living in my body and a route back to finding comfort when old patterns start to come to the fore whenever I am under pressure. Feldenkrais makes my body happier, which makes me happier.
- DP, Teacher, Dunedin, 2010
The Feldenkrais Method makes me more aware of how I use my whole body when playing the piano - including my shoulders, spine and pelvis all the way down to my feet. Improving the way I sit at the instrument, gives me more physical freedom, technical ease and has also helped me to avoid injury. Catherine is a professional, dedicated and open-minded practitioner, who works with care and responsibility.
- TM, Classical Pianist, Dunedin.
Recently a colleague said that I finally moved as though my body belonged to me. I know what she means, after my weight loss surgery I was literally half the woman I once was, but I still felt unbalanced and awkward. Since Feldenkrais lessons with Catherine I move well, am balanced and coordinated to an extent I had never experienced before – I have even been called elegant and I have just completed a walking half marathon!
- LW, Health Academic, Dunedin
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