Courses

Course 2025

FELDENKRAIS® COURSE 17.-18.5.2025

Clever Spine – Move with Ease and Freedom!

 

Paul Pui Wo Lee, a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and dance artist, will visit Helsinki again!

Come and discover how the Feldenkrais Method can enhance your dancing, yoga practice, running, singing, musicianship, gardening, climbing, walking, workouts, acting, self-expression, and so much more. Experience greater ease, efficiency, and fluidity in everything you do!

 

  • This course is open for professional performing artists and everyone interested in movement as well as mental and physical wellbeing.
  • The course is held in English.

 

Experience the unique intelligence and freedom of movement of your spine with the Feldenkrais Method® !

This workshop is built on carefully selected Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® (ATM®) lessons designed to help your nervous system discover new, insightful ways to move. Your spine is the dynamic center of your body, constantly adapting and reshaping itself to support your balance and movements. As your nervous system learns to recognize new possibilities, your spine becomes more flexible and responsive—reducing unnecessary tension and making movement effortless, free, and enjoyable.

The Feldenkrais Method® is an educational approach that helps people learn to sense themselves more clearly to discover more intelligent and efficient ways of moving, which increase their mobility and flexibility. Through ATM® lessons and exercises, we explore, among other things, all the possible movements of the pelvis, the gliding of the shoulder blades over the ribs, softening of the ribs for better turning of the head, fuller breathing of the chest cavity and abdomen for better stability over our feet, and more.

The Feldenkrais Method® is certainly helpful for injury prevention and recovery, but it’s true spirit is to help people continuously improve and essentially realise more of their human potential to take action in life. It helps us move beyond our habits, move more freely and find new paths to grow as mature individuals. It helps us move beyond our habits, move more freely and find new paths to grow as mature individuals.

 

Paul Pui Wo Lee | BIO

Paul Pui Wo Lee is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner teaching a combination of Feldenkrais and Ballet(-ish) at dance institutions, such as CCDC, Cullberg, Danish Dance Theatre, Norrdans, Dansehallerne, the Royal Swedish Ballet School, and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Summer Dance Intensive Vilnius, and the German state theatres in Regensburg, Gärtnerplatz Munich, Kassell, Münster, and Bremen.

He trained at Canada’s National Ballet School and the Rotterdam Dance Academy before dancing with IT Dansa and GöteborgsOperans Baletten.  He danced in works by Örjan Andersson, Stijn Celis, Tilman O’Donnell, Fernando Melo, Wim Vandekeybus, Nacho Duato, Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Alexander Ekman, Kenneth Kvarnström, Ina Christel Johannessen, and Virgilio Sieni. From 2020-2021 he was the rehearsal director and choreographic assistant at Of Curious Nature in Bremen under the artistic direction of Helge Letonja. From 2022-2023, he was the co-curator of the morning professional training program at Dansehallerne in Copenhagen.

Paul finds meaning in sharing Feldenkrais with people to uncover movement options beyond their habits, so they may develop the flexibility to be the artists of their health, balance, sensuality, power, and fun.  For dancers especially, Paul wishes to help them cultivate a “quality self-use” to express the fearless human potential grounded in intelligence and sensitivity to one’s well-being.

https://www.paulsfeldenkraisprojects.com/about

 

SCHEDULE:

SAT 17.5. at 10-15.45 o’clock
SUN 18.5. at 10-15.45 o’clock

(45 min. lunch break included in the schedule)

 

PLACE:

Tanssistudio Fokus
Tehtaankatu 27-29, Helsinki
https://fokusdance.fi

 

ACCESS:

Tanssistudio Fokus
Tehtaankatu 27-29, Punavuori.

INNER YARD, studio at the end of the yard.
Same gateway as for Restaurant Bas Bas.

 

PAYMENT:   

  • Price:

    Members:     190€ + 25€ annual member fee
    Non-members: 220€Discount price for performing art students and professionals: 170€
    Discount code: ARTIST

    One day participation: 95€ + annual member fee

Link to Holvi webshop:

https://holvi.com/shop/KINESTEETIKOT/section/kurssit-workshops/

 

EXTRA TRAINING SESSIONS:

SAT 24.5. at 11.00-12.30 am

SAT 7.6. at 11.00-12.30 am

SAT 14.6. at 9.00-10.30am

Place: Tanssistudio Fokus

Extra training sessions are free for the course participants who pay the member fee. During the sessions (1,5h) we revisit the content of the latest course as well as the content of all the courses the association has organised since 2017.
If you are not a member, the price for the extra training session is 10€ (paid at the studio by mobile pay).

 

For more information, do not hesitate to contact us: info@johannanuutinen.com
Association rules (in Finnish)