Release, soften and mobilise around your hips to create easy, graceful movement and enhance your flexibility and comfort. Modern living, with its limited movement habits, sitting in chairs and cultural attitudes can develop restriction and unconscious holding around the hips.

Using the ingenious Feldenkrais system of movement exercises, Ralph will guide you through a series of gentle and safe moves designed to comfortably develop opening and improved flexibility around your hips.

Feldenkrais is a clever exercise system using gentle movement and mindfulness. You learn to release tightness and unconscious restriction and create natural, graceful and effective actions.

What will we cover?

In this class Ralph will start with a review of the anatomy of the hips, pelvis, legs and spine. He will then lead you through an intriguing, playful and pleasurable sequence of coordinated movements of the legs, pelvis, spine and whole body.

The movements are based on one of the lessons in his book, The 14 Day Pelvis Program.

The movements are done sitting and lying on the floor (or any other firm, comfortable surface). The class is suitable for adults of all ages, all levels of fitness/unfitness, all levels of flexibility/inflexibility (as long as you can get down on the floor and up again).

Accessibility

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Free Tickets for First Nation Attendees

Who will be teaching?

Ralph Hadden BA CFP (he/him) is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner based in Melbourne. He is one of Australia’s most experienced ‘Feldenkraisers’, having been teaching since 1988. He offers his own workshops, weekly classes and individual sessions, helping his clients recover from injury, build health and relaxation and improve performance at work and play.

Ralph’s book, Your 14 Day Pelvis Program (Mind-body exercises for healing, vitality and sensuality), was published in 2023. From 2012-2018 he was editor of Feldenkrais Australia, the journal of the Australian Feldenkrais Guild Inc.

He has presented for many organisations, nationally and internationally, including the CAE, Arthritis Foundation, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Gawler Foundation and RMIT.

Ralph teaches with clarity, respect and good humour, combining fun with serious learning. He is trauma aware and affirming of gender and relationship diversity. In his spare time he has acquired a black belt in Aikido, played cricket, sung in choirs, published a book of poetry and solved cryptic crossword puzzles.

You can visit his website here, and his book website here.

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Any other questions or ways we can assist with accessibility? Just email Maddy (she/her) at melbourne@lanewaylearning.com

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