Method
Feldenkrais and yoga enable you to learn to deal with your own body more consciously. Mindfulness in the execution of the movement sequences promotes our self-awareness and self-assessment. By observing what we do and how we do it, changes in muscle tone take place, greater ease of movement, and increased well-being. While the Feldenkrais Method emphasizes the expansion of a subtle skeletal awareness, the yoga practitioner pays attention to the connection between breath and movement, the alignment of each asana, the movement of the breath, and the alignment of consciousness itself. Here as well as there when deceleration sets in, we learn to perceive and let go of what hinders movement and posture.
An appropriate balance between the necessary tension and relaxation can be experienced. The balance in the gravitational field is distributed between the greatest possible support from the skeletal structure and the least possible effort from the muscles. If conscious attention is the focus of execution, the changes can also affect the nervous system. Our movements become more fluid. The breath adapts to the movements and becomes deeper, more even and calmer. We practice external and internal balance and develop a dynamic and situationally adaptable attitude. Our self-image expands and with it the spectrum of movement variations available to us, as well as our conscious spatial and temporal orientation. We find more lightness and stability, mobility and health.
Feldenkrais
In the Feldenkrais Method, the consciousness is given the opportunity to marvel at the details of movement that it was previously unaware of. Gentle small movements with minimal effort and maximum efficiency affect the nature of our nervous system, its organization and ability to learn.
Our sensory, motor and coordinative potential is activated. The muscular work distribution is readjusted, painful and overstressed areas are relieved. Our posture and breathing become lighter. Possibilities of movement and action are expanded. In everyday life we have more and new energy available for the things we want to do.
Yoga practice can also benefit significantly from Feldenkrais work. With her, the alignment of the asanas becomes more light, stable and complex. The flow develops into a gliding flight.
Group lessons
ATM *Awareness through Movements
The teacher instructs the movements verbally.
Individual lessons
FI *Functional Integration
The student is moved by the teacher.
The individual lessons take place on an individual basis
agreement.
Feldenkrais & Qi Gong practice
Weimarer Straße 32
10625 Berlin
Yoga
My classes focus on the connection between breath and movement, awareness of the structural and subtle anatomy of the body, and mindful alignment of each asana. Both stimulating and challenging asanas connected in vinyasa, as well as calm sequences and restorative, and yin yoga elements with longer held asanas, pranayama and meditation are the content of my yoga practice.
Ha = sun Tha = moon + Yoga = union
An important moment in yoga is to explore the balance of opposites on different levels.
ASANA
In the sense of *sthira sukham asanam from the “Yogasutra” by Patañjali, an asana combines the qualities of lightness and stability. This requires the balance of tension and relaxation.
Self-awareness
By observing the body and breath reactions in the various postures, we learn to perceive where activity leads to tension, relaxation to inertia and heaviness.
Our self-assessment grows and enables a conscious handling of the body.
Connection of breath and movement
The interplay of breath and movement in the asanas calms and we can regenerate.
”The frenzied stasis” is broken and a balance is created between too much tension and exhaustion. Our attention helps the mind to focus and come to rest.
Alignment
The mindful alignment of the body in the asanas helps us learn an appropriate interplay between necessary effort – *prayatna and the release of superfluous tension – *shaitilya.
Variations in the execution and the use of aids support individual requirements and needs.
VINYASA
Vinyasa is a variation of asanas that merge into each other and are connected through the breath.
It corresponds to the flow of movement of life, in which each human posture is a dynamic balance in the gravitational field transit configuration between the beginning and end of each movement in space and time.
Healthy coordinated movements, subject to the principle of the smallest measure of force, fluid and reversible at any moment, can be practiced in vinyasa by flowing from one asana to another with different requirements again. Spatial and temporal orientation also refine.
RESTORATIVE YOGA
Long held, gentle asanas, underpinned and supported with assistive devices, allow the body to release tension. They bring our consciousness to a stillness that is both awake and alert. The vagus finds balance and, without having to perform anything, our body’s reserves are replenished.
YIN YOGA
Here the focus is on long held asanas, which can also find support with aids, in contrast to Restorative Yoga are organized in a space between comfortable and uncomfortable to perceive and accept tension until we are ready to hand them over to gravity in new spaces of play and tension.
With the adopted postures, meridian courses are addressed, whose energy flow is activated and released.
PRANAYAMA
By focusing on the breath movements and spaces, we develop an understanding of our breath.
We learn to perceive how it is constantly changing, depending on our physical, mental and emotional state.
Course Schedule
Monday | What | Where |
11.00 – 12.00 | Feldenkrais | Feldenkrais & Qi Gong • Weimarer Straße 32, Charlottenburg |
16.30 – 17.30 | Feldenkrais | Feldenkrais & Qi Gong • Weimarer Straße 32, Charlottenburg |
18.00 – 19.30 | Hatha Yoga I | Feldenkrais & Qi Gong • Weimarer Straße 32, Charlottenburg |
20.00 – 21.30 | Hatha Yoga II | Feldenkrais & Qi Gong • Weimarer Straße 32, Charlottenburg |
Tuesday | ||
9.00 – 10.15 | Feldenkrais | Studio Piano Playing • Bergmannstraße 70, Kreuzberg 61 |
19.00 – 20.15 | Feldenkrais | Studio Piano Playing • Bergmannstraße 70, Kreuzberg 61 |
Thursday | ||
10.00 – 11.00 | Gentle Feldenkrais Yoga | Feldenkrais & Qi Gong • Weimarer Straße 32, Charlottenburg |
Prices
Yoga • Feldenkrais 60 min.
trial lesson (one-time) 15 €
monthly fee 60 € / reduced 50 €
single lesson 25 €
Yoga 90 min.
trial lesson (one-time) 15 €
monthly fee 65 € / reduced 55 €
single lesson 25 €
Feldenkrais individual lessons
by individual arrangement in the Feldenkrais & Qi Gong practice
60 min. 90 € / reduced 75 €
3-part card 240 €
* Please understand that I reserve the right to charge for
appointments cancelled later than 36 hours in advance.
Sunday-Specials 2024
11 a.m.- 13.30 p.m. / 3 to 6 participants / 50 Euro per appointment / Weimarer Str. 32, 10625 Berlin
All workshops can be booked individually and independently of each other.
18.05.25 | Voll auf der Rolle | Rückenwohl zum Mitnehmen, mit Hilfe einer Decke alle Wirbel in Bewegung versetzten, für einen lebendigen Rücken (FELDENKRAIS®) | anmelden bei Anne Mehr über Anne ![]() |
25.05.25 | Öffne deine Flügel | Dem komplexen Gelenkspiel des Schultergürtels lauschend, den Brustkorb weit werden lassen, mit ausgebreiteten Armen dem Sommer entgegen… (FELDENKRAIS® & achtsames Yoga) | anmelden bei Jo-Anna |
22.06.25 | Gelassen von Kopf bis Fuß: Kiefer | Den kleinen Spielräumen seiner Gelenke vorsichtig auf der Spur, Spannungen aus Gesicht, Kiefer und Nacken loslassen (FELDENKRAIS® & achtsames Yoga) | anmelden bei Jo-Anna |
13.07.25 | Kajak fahren | Die Schulterblätter befreien, damit die Arme mehr Freiheit haben und es dem Rücken besser geht (FELDENKRAIS®) | anmelden bei Anne Mehr über Anne ![]() |
20.07.25 | Beschwingtes Becken | Das Zusammenspiel der Beckengelenke ins Fließen bringen, Spannungen loslassen, bis in den Rücken hinein, leicht & beschwingt den Sommer genießen. (FELDENKRAIS® & sanftes Hatha Yoga) | anmelden bei Jo-Anna |
10.08.25 | Ein freier Kopf | Der Kopf ist nicht nur rund, damit das Denken die Richtung wechseln kann. Wie uns der Kopf auch bei der Orientierung hilft (FELDENKRAIS®) | anmelden bei Anne Mehr über Anne ![]() |
21.09.25 | Sanfter Augen-Blick, glücklicher Rücken | Den Fokus auf die Bewegungen der Augen richten, dem Blick spielerisch neue Perspektiven eröffnen. Augen-und Rückenmuskulatur weich lassen, Asymmetrien ausbalancieren. (FELDENKRAIS® & sanftes Hatha Yoga) | anmelden bei Jo-Anna |
12.10.25 | Innere Ruhe und Balance finden | Den Moment dazwischen finden, wo es sich in jede Richtung entscheiden kann, schlafen-wachen, links-rechts, ja-nein (FELDENKRAIS®, Sounder Sleep System™) | anmelden bei Anne Mehr über Anne ![]() |
About me
I have been fascinated by movement ever since I can remember. Starting with early dance education, floor gymnastics and balance beam, a classical dance education at the Hamburg Ballet School, I studied acting and directing in Russia at the St. Petersburg Theater Academy. The main focus of my theater work is movement, the physical impulse from which the sound, word and text, the action spring.
I have been practicing yoga for more than twenty years, trying different styles – Vinyasa, Anusara, intensive Ashtanga – until I decided on Hatha Yoga. I quickly integrated the yoga practice into my already physical rehearsal work with the actors. I also discovered the Feldenkrais method. Immediately after the second lesson, which triggered such fascinating changes in my body perception, I decided to take the training.
I continue to practice Qi-Gong and Shiatsu regularly.
I am also interested in mental concepts for exploring connections between movement and consciousness. This includes philosophical, psychological, neuroscientific and cognitive scientific reflections.
I move every day and wish that everyone would.
Training
FELDENKRAIS® Training:
FVD Feldenkrais Berlin e.V.
Yoga Teacher Training:
BDY EYU
Acting and directing studies with diploma, Academy of Theater Arts St.Petersburg
Philosophy studies, University of Hamburg
Classical dance training, Hamburg Ballet School
Contact
Studio
Jo-Anna Hamann
Weimarer Straße 32
10625 Berlin
Mobil
0176 23668770
