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The practitioner Ilana Nevill - classes and workshops

Functional Integration Sessions
Awareness Through Movement Classes
Feldenkrais in the Mountains/Feldenkrais in den Bergen/Feldenkrais dans les Pyrénées

Awareness Through Movement Lessons

Functional Integration Sessions

Ilana gives group sessions (Awareness Through Movement Classes) and individual Functional Integration lessons to people of all ages and from all walks of life. Many of her clients come because they have realized that the chronic or acute pains and problems they experience have something to do with “bad posture”, inadequate breathing, and/or more or less dysfunctional uses of the body which have become habitual and therefore automatic. Those who have become disillusioned with conventional, usually somewhat interventionist, therapies want to become more aware of themselves in order to take a more active and responsible part in recovering from discomfort, injury, or illness. Others wish to learn intelligent and effective ways of dealing with rising stress levels.

Sportspeople, musicians, dancers, and other performing artists are looking for ways to enhance their athletic and artistic performance.

Ilana’s Functional Integration practice is at her new home

address: Ilana Nevill
La Ruzole du Haut
09400 SAURAT
France

Tel. 0033(0)561052192

For further information and dates when Ilana returns to Bath, UK, where she ran a Feldenkrais practice for 16 years, please contact : ilana@feldenkraisnow.org

intelligent body
flexible mind
effective action
Ilana Nevill

French Pyrenees: +33 (0) 561052192
email: ilana@feldenkraisnow.org

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Talks, Demonstrations, Introductory Workshops for the Public

With a background in education (B.Ed. equivalent, University of Cologne, Germany) Ilana is eager to present the Feldenkrais Method to interested professionals in Public Health Care, the Performing Arts, Sports, Education etc.

Advanced Courses for Feldenkrais Practitioners
In her capacity as assistant trainer (since 1996) Ilana is also active in further education and in-service training for Feldenkrais teachers and practitioners in England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. Among Ilana’s particular interests are the application of the Feldenkrais Method in neuro-rehabilitation; investigating the use of air (as contained in inflatable balls) for more subtle communication with the human nervous system; developing mutually supportive forms of continuous professional education; and finding effective ways of speaking and writing about the Feldenkrais Method.

Feldenkrais Holidays in the French Pyrenees

One event has been planned for September 2008

...Looking for Comfort…
An Advanced Training in the Pyrenees with Ilana Nevill on

The art and science of making skilful use of gravity

  • in Functional Integration
  • with the student/client lying on the floor
  • on a regular Feldenkrais table
  • on a specially devised “Air Bed”
  • and during exploratory walks in the mountains

                                                   (sometimes at night)
This will be a Feldenkrais laboratory devoted to systematic exploration of three ways of giving a Functional Integration session. Each will provide the practitioner with  promising possibilities in the non-verbal communication process with a student. 
Each will invite the practitioner to take care of her/his personal comfort in a specific way.
In order to be fully effective, each one of these different approaches demands equal competence and skill

  • in adapting with ease to a particular situation
  • by establishing a consciously playful relationship with the power of gravity. 

Once this is the case, every FI will become a pleasant ATM-experience for the practitioner and that subtle, highly enjoyable dance of two nervous systems which Moshe Feldenkrais used to talk about with such delight.
Participants will have ample opportunity to discover the characteristics and advantages of the “Air Bed”, an alternative to the regular table, which Ilana devised many years ago for clients with special needs. The results of this work have always proved surprising and occasionally quite extraordinary.

Dates:    Saturday 10 – Friday 16 May 2008
Place:    La Ruzole du Haut
              A tiny mountain hamlet overlooking the beautiful Saurat valley
              (120 km South of Toulouse)
Number of participants:  10
Price: £240 (Deposit: £40)
Accomodation: in the hamlet or nearby
Access:

  • train: to Tarascon sur Ariège (South of Foix near the Spanish border)
  • by car:  you will be provided with a detailed map
  • by plane: to Toulouse – Shuttle to the station and from there by train to Tarascon sur Ariège      

If you arrive by public transport you will be picked up at Tarascon station

Further details and inscription:  Ilana Nevill  Tel. 0033561052192 / 
                                                                         ilananevill@gmail.com

Let’s Surprise Ourselves!

Holiday Laboratory-Workshop for Feldenkrais Practitioners in the French Pyrenees

The structure and rhythm of this open-ended workshop will be determined by the participants themselves and by the practical and theoretical questions they bring.

The idea for an informal get-together arose in a recent telephone conversation between two colleagues and friends who both realized that they need a break.
Experienced practitioners and assistant trainers Ilana Nevill and Maja van Niekerk also found that they miss the extremely fruitful cooperation and mutual support they enjoyed for many years, interrupted when Ilana moved from England to France. 
Ilana and Maja would be glad to share the July experience with a few interested colleagues/students.

 

Place: La Ruzole du Haut,   a tiny mountain hamlet ca 900m above sea-level overlooking the beautiful
                                                    Saurat valley, 120km South of Toulouse
                                                    
Date: Saturday 12 – Friday 18 July 2008
Fee:  None (contribution to a recently created “Society for the Promotion of Somatic Learning and
                       Education” welcome but not mandatory)
Maximum number of participants: 10
Accomodation: in and near La Ruzole du Haut
                        (a list of differently priced accommodation is available on request)

Enquiries:  Ilana Nevill
                  La Ruzole du Haut
                  09400 SAURAT
                  France
                    Tel: +33 56105 2192 
                    ilananevill@gmail.com

     FELDENKRAIS  IN THE MOUNTAINS

 Walking lightly – breathing freely  - seeing clearly
                                 
Seven days of life-enhancing Awareness Through Movement exploration
and daily walks in the mountains, highlighting personal questions
and creative answers

Dates: Saturday 6 – Friday 12 September 2008
                             
Place:  La Ruzole du Haut,   09400 SAURAT
            a small hamlet in the French Pyrenees over-looking the beautiful Saurat valley
            (ca 75 miles South of Toulouse)
Maximum Number of participants: 10
                                  
Fee:     350 € (Deposit of 50 € to ensure a place)

                                  
Accommodation:  in the hamlet and neighbourhood
                             preparation/cost of meals by mutual agreement

All enquiries (+ list of accomodation) from Ilana Nevill:  ilananevill@gmail.com

                                                                                            Tel. 0033 (0)561052192 

Travel:

By car: To Tarascon sur Ariège (c. 120 km to the South of Toulouse towards Andorra) To the West past Saurat towards the Col de Port and St Girons (More detailed information on request)

By train: To Toulouse and onward to Tarascon sur Ariège (Met by arrangement)

By air: To Toulouse (or Barcelona) and then train to Tarascon sur Ariège (from Barcelona via Latour de Carol) All enquiries (+ list of accommodation) from Ilana Nevill: ilana@feldenkraisnow.org Tel. 0033 (0)561052192

Ilana Nevill, éducatrice de formation et professeur de yoga, pratique la Méthode Feldenkrais depuis 1990.  Devenue

assistante en 1996 elle est intervenue dans de diverses formations professionnelles en Allemagne, France, et les États Unis.

Ayant récemment déménagé de Bath, Angleterre, en Ariège, France, elle pratique La Méthode surtout à sa nouvelle adresse La Ruzole du Haut , 09400 SAURAT, mais retourne de temps en temps en Angleterre et continue à donner des cours en Allemagne et Suisse.

En travaillant avec des élèves souffrant de stress (les rendant incapable de mener une vie “normale”) ou d’une défaillance du systeme nerveux (sclérose en plaque, victimes d’accident de voiture ou de naissance, enfants atteints de paralysie cérébrale), elle a été amenée à développer des moyens innovatifs contribuant a une meilleure qualité du dialogue non-verbal entre praticien et élève (et de l’élève avec soi-même).  Un de ces moyens les plus efficaces qu’elle a trouvé est de jouer avec les differentes pressions d’air contenues dans les ballons de toutes formes et tailles.
Ces “outils pédagogiques” font partie intégrante de ses classes, ateliers et stages.

 

 

 

 

2 stages sont prevus de 7 jours est prevu dans les Pyrenees:

 

À la recherche du confort:
           L’art-et-science de se servir de la pesanteur
               > dans les séances d’Intégration Fonctionnelle

  • quand l’élève est couché/e sur le sol
  • étendu/e sur la table régulaire
  • allongé/e sur un “divan d’air”

>  ainsi que pendant des randonnées exploratrices
(parfois nocturnes)  
Postformation dans les Pyrénées avec Ilana Nevill 
( Nombre de participants limité à 10)
Samedi 10 - vendredi  16 mai
350 €  (Arrhes: 50 €)

Renseignements/Inscription:                    Ilana Nevill:   Tel. 0561052192
                                                                                          ilananevill@gmail.com

 

 Vacances Feldenkrais dans les Pyrénées

Découvrir la joie de marcher et respirer librement
                                       et de voir plus clair (dans plus d’un sens)

Sept jours d’exploration agréable et vivifiante en PCM (Prise de Conscience par le Mouvement) et randonnées journalières - animés par Ilana Nevill

  • mettant à jour des questions – parfois ressenties comme de vrais “problèmes”   
  • et des solutions pertinentes – parfois surprenantes.

Au cours de ce stage Ilana va donner une séance individuelle à toute personne qui en ressent le besoin ou l’envie.

Dates:   du samedi 6 au vendredi  12 Septembre 2008
Lieu:  La Ruzole du Haut
          petit hameau montagnard (120km au Sud de Toulouse à 880m)
Nombre de participants: limité à 10
Prix:  350 €  (Arrhes: 50 €)
Logement: dans le hameau et au voisinage
                                                                                         
Accès: *en train, descendre à Tarascon sur Ariege (proche de la frontière franco-
              espagnole);
            *en voiture (demander des instructions détaillées);
            *par avion, descendre à Toulouse et prendre le train de Toulouse à Tarascon/A.
Si vous venez par transport en commun, nous viendrons vous chercher à votre arrivée.
 
Renseignements et liste de logements:   Ilana Nevill:  ilananevill@gmail.com
                                                                 La Ruzole du Haut  - 09400 Saurat                     
                                                                 Tel. 0561052192

 Ilana Nevill, éducatrice de formation et professeur de yoga, pratique la Méthode Feldenkrais depuis 1990.  Devenue assistante en 1996, elle est intervenue dans de diverses formations professionnelles en Allemagne, France, et les États Unis.
Elle pratique la méthode dans un superbe atelier donnant sur la belle vallée de Saurat et anime des postformations en France et ailleurs.
                    En travaillant avec des élèves souffrant de stress (les rendant incapable de mener une vie “normale”) ou d’une défaillance du système nerveux (sclérose en plaque, victimes d’accident de voiture ou de naissance, enfants atteints de paralysie cérébrale), elle a été amenée à développer des moyens innovants contribuant à une meilleure qualité du dialogue non-verbal entre praticien et élève (et de l’élève avec lui/elle-même).  Un de ces moyens les plus efficaces qu’elle a trouvé est de jouer avec les differentes pressions d’air contenues dans des ballons de toutes formes et tailles.
Ces “outils pédagogiques” font partie intégrante de ses classes, ateliers et stages.

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