Moving Adventures: Summer (Re)Charge

As we breeze into early summer, this workshop offers a chance to slow down, tune in, and let go of habitual patterns of tension.

Through a gentle blend of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) and Yoga (including yin, slow flow, breathwork, and mantra meditation) you’ll be guided towards a sense of fully inhabiting your body with a greater ease and awareness.

We hope you will discover how soft, mindful movements can open up new possibilities, helping you move more comfortably and think about movement in a fresh way.

The session runs from 2:00pm to 5:00pm, with a couple of short breaks to rest and integrate.

Benefits these practices may bring:

•  Time to (re)connect – in a world demanding constant growth and productivity, the invitation here is to slow down, notice, reset and rest in yourself.

•  Development of interoception and proprioception

•  Grounding – in the structure and space of skeleton and breath to build trust in the power within, reducing excess muscular effort

•  Balance – ‘yin’ (the yoga of passively held postures) and Feldenkrais (Awareness Through Movement) both counterbalance active ‘yang’ energy

•  Increased range of motion (ROM) – by quietening the muscles and targeting the connective tissues we reduce tensile resistance

•  Encouraging neuro-plasticity – changing neural pathways governing thought and movement

•  Regulation of the nervous system – activation of the parasympathetic ‘rest and digest’ mode

•  Improved circulation, airflow and cardiovascular health

•  An overall richer picture of your whole self

About Moving Adventures: Who are we?

About Cheryl Enever

I am both a professional opera singer and a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. My particular background gives me an insight into how movement, voice, and emotional regulation are connected. I’ve used Feldenkrais to manage neck and shoulder tension, enhance breath control, and cultivate resilience under pressure.

After completing the four-year London Feldenkrais Training Programme, I continue to refine my skills through advanced training. I bring warmth, humour and empathy to my teaching and hope that, with me, you’ll enjoy discovering a new way of moving through life!

Why Feldenkrais?

With so many classes, treatments, and modalities out there, what makes Feldenkrais different?

The Feldenkrais Method® isn’t about stretching harder, pushing through pain, or correcting posture with force. It’s about learning to move better by moving with more awareness. This gentle yet profound practice can complement and enhance whatever else you already do—yoga, Pilates, strength training, dance, or simply daily life.

By improving your awareness of how you move, Feldenkrais helps you break free from unhelpful habits and uncover easier, more efficient movement patterns. Over time, this can reduce tension, improve coordination, and deepen your overall sense of well-being.

It’s my belief that the more we understand how we move—and how we think about moving—the more we can transform ourselves into healthy, adaptable, and resilient human beings.

What will you be doing?

Group Classes (Awareness Through Movement® or ATM)

These lessons are mostly done lying on the floor, but may also include sitting or standing. They’re accessible to people of many ages and abilities.

You’ll be gently guided through a series of movement explorations—like solving a physical riddle. Movements are repeated, varied, and explored at your own pace. There’s no strain, no stretching to the limit—just curiosity and discovery.

Over time, you’ll become more attuned to your internal sensations, freeing yourself from habitual tension and uncovering new ways of moving with ease.

About Maddy Holmes

As a professional singer, writer and yoga teacher with 450 hours of yoga training in Vinyasa, Mandala Flow, Yin and Yoga with Somatics, I guide practices in all these modes, with a particular focus on nurturing creative confidence and authentic voice in professional singers and non-singers alike.

Initially attracted to yoga by the physical support that the practice could offer a performer’s body, I soon found that the spiritual, emotional and philosophical aspects of this vast forest of a tradition radically transformed my perception of what a voice is and how it arises from the whole person.

What kind of yoga is this?

My own practice and training is ever-evolving, in constant conversation with both the development of my own voice as a singer and writer and my teaching. When we tune in and listen deeply to the body’s wisdom there’s an invitation to respond with an open mind and heart. From this space we can meet new possibilities with curiosity and compassion and more fully inhabit ourselves.

In the spirit of teaching what I’ve found I most need to learn, my yoga practices centre on fostering inner awareness, trust and grounding, quality of breath connection and joyful integrity of movement. I incorporate aspects of other modalities in an exploratory, multi-faceted approach to guide people, as teacher Bernie Clark says,  ‘to fly their own plane’.

What will we be doing?

In the slow flow session we’ll move through a series of postures from floor-based to standing with some repetitions, focusing on tuning inwards and coordinating the movement of the body with the movement of the breath.

In the ‘yin’ yoga session we’ll quieten the muscular effort and target the connective tissues in a series of passive longer-held poses that invite us to prioritise time, stillness and yielding to gravity as a counterbalance to all our ‘yang’ doing.

We’ll complete our practices with some breath and mantra meditation centre on the heart space and a traditional resting savasana.