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Feldenkrais and Breathplay

An experimental workshop exploring interventions in breathing patterns created by you, allowed by others, enforced by others.

This is a day of experimenting with your own breath and with that of others. Introducing BDSM and play elements into quintessential breathwork practices, what new possibilities arise for enhanced experiences?

Though breath is the focus of this class, we do not limit ourselves to classical breathing exercises. We will explore the way we breathe in variety of contexts - from subtle breath manipulations to interpersonal explorations. How does my breathing change when I am next to this person? Or to that one? How do I want to influence this person’s breathing? How do I do that?

We will play with solo-exercises, to gain an understanding of exactly how it feels for us physically and emotionally to manipulate our breathing patterns. Then, taking a slow and calculated approach, we start to intervene with the breathing cycle of others, manipulating it to observe the effects. 

This exploration isn’t about ‘improving’ the way one breaths, but rather about cultivating intimacy - with the way one is, with others - through and with breath.

Rebecca Frances

Rebecca holds a degree from Cambridge University where she studied the philosophy, literature and art of the body and of sexuality. She grounded her intellectual background in physical practice by then becoming a yoga teacher and masseuse, and continues to develop her professional interests by focusing now on breathwork, massage, and the pursuit of the linguistic expression of exactly what happens when two bodies touch. An author, workshop leader, and pranayama enthusiast, she brings over 7 years of facilitating experience, and over 15 years experience within the realms of applied sexuality and spiritual practices. More: www.rebecca-frances.com 

Noam Raz

Noam is a workshop facilitator, Feldenkrais practitioner and Family Constellation guide. He has trained and played with a variety of physical practices and approaches - Dance, Taiji, Meditation, Somatics, BDSM, Voicework and Parkour. Coming originally from the realm of Philosophy (Wittgenstein!) and Linguistics, attention to language and its workings is somehow always in the background. 
Contact: noamraz05@gmail.com