François Combeau

François Combeau Helsingissä 13.-14.9.2025

KAIKILLE AVOIN FELDENKRAIS® -VIIKONLOPPU HELSINGISSÄ SYYSKUUSSA 2025
FELDENKRAIS® PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN HELSINKI IN SEPTEMBER 2025

Teema / Theme: 

”Hands articulated and relaxed to touch, communicate, explore, act, trace, model and play…”

La / Sat 13-18
Su / Sun 10-14.30

Opettaja / Teacher: François Combeau

Hinta / Course fee: 200€
(sis. ALV/ incl. VAT 14%)

Maksuosoite / Account: FI66 5318 0920 0227 34
Viesti / Invoice message: FC2025

Ilmoittautumiset / Registration:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358408328519



Hands that are available and present for touching, communicating, relating, acting… hands that are free and differentiated for exploring space and matter, skilled for creating shapes and setting them in motion…

Our hands are part of those extremities through and with which we relate to the surrounding world and to others, whether to receive information or to express ourselves. The mobility of the fingers and their differentiation from one another make our hands extremely sensitive and agile instruments for receiving and acting.  Whether we’re touching, writing, drawing or playing an instrument, our hands are a veritable medium for expressing our intelligence, sensitivity and creative ability.

We’ll discover the chain of integration that links each finger to the spinal column, mobilize the joints of the wrist, elbow and shoulder, and explore the qualities of sensitive touch, a genuine dialogue between skin, muscle and bone with the thing being felt.

The work proposed during the lessons will enable each and every one to:

* Feel and mobilize the integration chain linking hand, arm, shoulder blade, collarbone and spine, enabling effortless movement without joint limitation (wrist/elbow/shoulder), differentiated and harmonious movement, whether for graphics, instrumental play, sporting gestures or manual activity.

* Rediscover freedom of movement in the wrists, which is essential if the hand and fingers are to move in space and adapt to the object being touched or held.

* Discover the many finger joints and their different mobilities for greater mobility and agility.

* Refine the quality of touch, a veritable dialogue between skin, muscle and bone between self and ”the thing touched”.

* Develop the ability to dialogue with the higher nervous system through differentiation in the hand (one of the areas most represented in the motor cortex) and the development of a genuine quality of movement and action



François Combeau  is a Feldenkrais teacher and Trainer.

As a teacher/practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® for 35 years, Francois Combeau has a wide range of teaching experience of ATM® lessons, including  weekly classes, theme series, and numerous seminars in Paris, throughout Europe and in Detroit (Michigan), for professionals in the fields of the arts, athletics and health.
He also works with individuals helping them to develop a fuller quality of life – physically, mentally and emotionally. 

As an experienced Assistant-trainer and than Trainer, he has been involved in many training in Europe, in Paris with Myriam Pfeffer, in Liege, Belgium with Yvan Joly, in Bad Windshiem, Germany with Mark Reese, and in the U.S. with Anat Baniel.  These trainers have in many ways been his mentors.  Francois has taught advanced training in France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S.  He has also the desire to share the experience he developed teaching for 15 years in small continuity educational training’s, creating a very interactive, precise and supportive way of working with students.

Feldenkrais ryhmä

Pianokellarin Feldenkrais® -kesätunnit 3.-13.6.

Pianokellarin Feldenkrais® -kesätunnit starttaavat 3.6.! Tunteja on arkipäivisin yhteensä kuusi kertaa välillä 3.-13.6.

Tuntien aikataulu:
maanantaisin klo 12-13
keskiviikkoisin klo 10-11
torstaisin klo 17-18

Hinta 16e /kerta.

Lämpimästi tervetuloa niin aiemmin tunneilla käyneet kuin kaikki uudet tutustujat!

Tunneille et tarvitse mukaan muuta kuin itsesi. Kaikille Feldenkrais® -tunneille voit myös osallistua aina omissa arkivaatteissasi.
Lue lisää menetelmästä: Feldenkrais®
Kaikki tunnit ovat pienryhmätunteja. Ohjaajana toimii auktorisoitu Feldenkrais® -opettaja Marie Körkkö.

Ilmoittautumiset ja lisätiedot: marie.korkko@gmail.com / 040 832 8519

Pianokellarin tuntien peruutusehdot:
Tunnin voi peruuttaa hyvitystä vastaan 24h ennen. Sen jälkeen peruutetut tunnit veloitetaan kokonaisuudessaan.

François Combeau

François Combeau Helsingissä 14.-15.9.2024

KAIKILLE AVOIN FELDENKRAIS-VIIKONLOPPU HELSINGISSÄ ALEKSANTERIN TEATTERILLA /
FELDENKRAIS PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN HELSINKI, ALEKSANTERI THEATER


Teema / Theme: 

The shoulder girdle, mobility of the arms,  freedom of the head and the upper part of the chest



La / Sat 13-18
Su / Sun 10-14.30

Opettaja / Teacher: François Combeau

Due to its light, fine and highly articulated structure, and its articulation with the spine at the level of the cervico-dorsal hinge (C7/D1), the shoulder girdle, as if suspended, allows great mobility of the arms in all directions of movement. The emergence of the neck and head from this cervical hinge ensures its rotation like a real periscope carrying the sense organs. It also contributes to the freedom of the upper part of the chest, allowing easier, more comfortable and functional respiratory development as well as an important relaxation of the throat…

Anatomical observation clearly shows us that the pelvis, due to its very dense and bony structure, has the function of ensuring our balance, the stability of our supports, the efficiency of our movements and the development of strength. The shoulder girdle, on the other hand, is made up of very light, fine and wonderfully articulated bones, and designed to allow us to express with great freedom our relationship to the world and to others, to act in a very fine and differentiated way, to use instruments and tools, to communicate, touch, feel and receive stimulation…

The numerous explorations offered will allow each participant to:

* Discover and better understand the different joints that animate the shoulder girdle, articulation between the head of the arm and the clavicle, between the clavicle and the sternum, between the neck and the dorsal thoracic spine (C7/D1), articulation between the first vertebrae dorsal…

* Develop real mobility of the scapula and its sliding on the ribs in all spatial directions, without which the arm cannot find its freedom of movement and the rib cage its functional engagement in respiratory development.

* Find relaxation in the shoulders and particularly in the different fibers of the “trapezius” muscles (relationship between the shoulder blade, the head and the dorsal column) on which many psychosomatic tensions linked to our way of living, our habits and acquired attitudes are fixed in the near past as in childhood

* Free the sternum and regain its suspension, allowing it to play its role as a true “figurehead” for our travels…

* Find more elasticity in all these links between the head and the rib cage, many of which pass through the throat, the suspensors of the larynx, etc.

         


François Combeau  is a Feldenkrais teacher and Trainer.

As a teacher/practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® for 35 years, Francois Combeau has a wide range of teaching experience of ATM® lessons, including  weekly classes, theme series, and numerous seminars in Paris, throughout Europe and in Detroit (Michigan), for professionals in the fields of the arts, athletics and health.
He also works with individuals helping them to develop a fuller quality of life – physically, mentally and emotionally. 

As an experienced Assistant-trainer and than Trainer, he has been involved in many training in Europe, in Paris with Myriam Pfeffer, in Liege, Belgium with Yvan Joly, in Bad Windshiem, Germany with Mark Reese, and in the U.S. with Anat Baniel.  These trainers have in many ways been his mentors.  Francois has taught advanced training in France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S.  He has also the desire to share the experience he developed teaching for 15 years in small continuity educational training’s, creating a very interactive, precise and supportive way of working with students.


Kurssin opetuskieli: englanti /
Teaching language: English


Paikka / Place:
Studio Yama
(Aleksanterin teatterin 4. kerros)
Bulevardi 23-27, Helsinki


Kurssin hinta / Price: 195€
Tili / Account: FI66 5318 0920 0227 34 Viesti / Message: FC 2024


Ilmoittautumiset ja tiedustelut / Registration and info:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358 40 832 8519 / Marie Körkkö

Tervetuloa!
Welcome!


Osanottajamäärä on rajoitettu – paikat täytetään ilmoittautumisjärjestyksessä.
The number of participants is limited – places are filled in order of registration.

Ilmoittautuminen on voimassa heti kun kurssimaksu on maksettu.
Registration is valid as soon as the course fee has been paid.

Feldenkrais® -sunnuntai Salossa 16.4.2023

Paikka: Salon kansalaisopisto, Ylhäistentie 2, Salo

Teema:
Mistä otan voiman?
“Kaikki voimat johtuvat kappaleiden välisistä vuorovaikutuksista. Kahden kappaleen vuorovaikuttaessa keskenään kohdistuu molempiin yhtä suuri, mutta vastakkaissuuntainen voima.” (Isaac Newton, 1687)

Työpaja sisältää kolme Feldenkrais® -menetelmän ryhmätuntia (Awareness Through Movement® -oppituntia). Tunneilla ollaan myös makuuasennossa lattialla – otathan mukaasi oman alustan sekä froteepyyhkeen, jonka voit taitella päänaluseksi. Tunneille voit osallistua omissa arkivaatteissasi.

Työpaja on avoin kaikille, ikään tai kuntoon katsomatta. Aiempaa kokemusta menetelmästä ei tarvita.

Feldenkrais® -menetelmä on kehollinen oppimismenetelmä, joka auttaa ihmistä tulemaan tietoiseksi itsestään, tekemistään, ja ympäristöstään. Päätyöväline menetelmässä on liike, ja työn lähtökohta on minäkuva. Menetelmän tavoite on auttaa ihmistä löytämään uudelleen omat luontaiset fyysiset ja psyykkiset ulottuvuutensa, jolloin arki kevenee ja helpottuu.

Opettaja: Marie Körkkö

Hinta: 40 euroa (sis. alv 10%)
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Ilmoittautuminen:
tiina.tulo@gmail.com / 040 577 8106

Lisätiedot ja kysymykset työpajasta:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / 040 832 8519 / www.marienpianokellari.fi

Lämpimästi tervetuloa!

François Combeau

François Combeau Helsingissä 16.-17.9.2023


KAIKILLE AVOIN FELDENKRAIS-VIIKONLOPPU HELSINGISSÄ ALEKSANTERIN TEATTERILLA /
FELDENKRAIS PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN HELSINKI, ALEKSANTERI THEATER


La / Sat 13-18
Su / Sun 10-14.30

Opettaja / Teacher: François Combeau


Teema / Theme:          

“To live in freedom, breathe in freedom …”

«Go beyond what is breathing, there you will find breath»  (Shri Aurobindo)

”Breathing is a universal, dynamic process in which man is included. It manifests itself in us through respiration, apparent as inhalation and exhalation. This is indeed a two-way flow between the inner and outer worlds, a gateway to All. This dynamic process does not belong to us. It is a cycle triggered without any intervention of the mind and sustained beyond our control. Yet we can intervene through voluntary muscles which shrink or expand spaces and impose shapes.

This duality can be difficult to accept at times. All our work on breathing, the changes we are seeking and the control we are striving to acquire should never relegate breathing to a possession – under the ownership of the Ego – or a creation of the mind. When breathing loses its natural rhythm and spontaneous dynamism, it loses its linking function and rapidly becomes an ill-adapted response to our needs ”here and now”.

Deep breathing is not confined to the chest or diaphragm movements. It involves the entire body. Unicity and balance are the features of healthy breathing. For all parts of the body to live and breathe fully, the chest must be stripped of its armour, the face must allow the passages (nostrils, pharynx, glottis…) to loosen, and the spine must recover its wholeness and flexibility, so as to track the wave of breath as it wells up from the abdomen, travels right through the body and unfurls across the face.

By embodying universal breath in us, breathing indeed provides a two-way flow between the inner and outer worlds. Consequently, if nothing is there to impede this dynamic process, it can remain free and adapt to the reality of both worlds while meeting our needs, intentions, activities, emotional states and relationships. It faithfully shadows our physical life as well as the subtlechanges in our emotional life.

A person’s breathing patterns cannot realy evolve by means of any conditioned learning or by imposing a system but by:

  • recovering freedom of the physical support and actualisation site of our bodies and body movements;
  • returning the nervous system’s capacity to receive information from both inner and outer worlds;
  • producing an appropriate response by controlling the opening-up processes and developments leading to its expression.

With constantly renewed curiosity and creative attention to his own way of proceeding, each student will feel Breathing become easier, greater freedom in day-to-day activities


François Combeau  is a Feldenkrais teacher and Trainer.

As a teacher/practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® for 35 years, Francois Combeau has a wide range of teaching experience of ATM® lessons, including  weekly classes, theme series, and numerous seminars in Paris, throughout Europe and in Detroit (Michigan), for professionals in the fields of the arts, athletics and health.
He also works with individuals helping them to develop a fuller quality of life – physically, mentally and emotionally. 

As an experienced Assistant-trainer and than Trainer, he has been involved in many training in Europe, in Paris with Myriam Pfeffer, in Liege, Belgium with Yvan Joly, in Bad Windshiem, Germany with Mark Reese, and in the U.S. with Anat Baniel.  These trainers have in many ways been his mentors.  Francois has taught advanced training in France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S.  He has also the desire to share the experience he developed teaching for 15 years in small continuity educational training’s, creating a very interactive, precise and supportive way of working with students.

Kurssin opetuskieli: englanti /
Teaching language: English

Paikka / Place:
Studio Yama
(Aleksanterin teatterin 4. kerros)
Bulevardi 27, Helsinki


Kurssin hinta / Price: 195€
Tili / Account: FI66 5318 0920 0227 34 // Viesti / Message: FC 2023


Ilmoittautumiset ja tiedustelut / Registration and info:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358 40 832 8519 / Marie Körkkö

Tervetuloa!
Welcome!


Osanottajamäärä on rajoitettu – paikat täytetään ilmoittautumisjärjestyksessä. /
The number of participants is limited – places are filled in order of registration.

Ilmoittautuminen on voimassa heti kun kurssimaksu on maksettu. /
Registration is valid as soon as the course fee has been paid.

François Combeau

François Combeau Helsingissä 17.-18.9.2022


KAIKILLE AVOIN FELDENKRAIS-VIIKONLOPPU
HELSINGISSÄ ALEKSANTERIN TEATTERILLA

lauantai klo 13-18.30
sunnuntai klo 10-14.30



Opettaja: François Combeau

Teema:
“A mobile head;
an alive, expressive, relaxed Face
and more functional freedom for facial and mouth organs ”
PART II


Opetuskieli: englanti


Paikka:
Studio Yama /Aleksanterin teatterin 4. Kerros
Bulevardi 27, Helsinki


Kurssin hinta: 195€
Tili: FI6653180920022734 / Viesti: FC2022


Ilmoittautumiset ja tiedustelut:
marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358408328519 / Marie Körkkö

Tervetuloa!


Osanottajamäärä on rajoitettu – paikat täytetään ilmoittautumisjärjestyksessä.

Ilmoittautuminen on voimassa heti kun kurssimaksu on maksettu.


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After the very exciting course we had in September 2021 and in front of the interest shown by many participants, we have chosen with François Combeau to continue the work around this very rich and important theme for each and everyone.

For those who participated in the September 2021 weekend workshop, it will be an opportunity to extend the work during new explorations, to discover new relationships and mobilities.

For those who wish to join us, the program of this workshop will be a great occasion to explore the dynamic relationships between facial and facial organs mobility, and the mobility of the head and neck, the relationship to space, support. This weekend course can be taken without having participated in the first course in September 2021.


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“A mobile Head ; an alive, expressive, relaxed Face and more functional freedom for facial and mouth organs ”


When true verticality returns, the head (the bearer of the sensory and expressive functions) being functionally supported from the feet, recovers total freedom of movement.
 By standing upright man expresses his specificity, and his considerably expanded field of observation and action.
 
This new balance and great freedom of movement, allowed a considerable development of the sensory functions and in particular, the widening of visual, auditory and olfactory fields, along the depth perception and clearness of contours…
 
Consequently, allowing man the possibility of increasing fine differentiation of the facial organs, given access to articulated language, the vehicle of thought, and facial mimicry expressing all kind of emotions becoming language by itself and the mirror of our major dynamisms and the instrument of an authentic dialogue.
 
When the larynx dropped under the effect of gravity, its suspenders developed while the voice widened its range, became more mobile, and the pharyngeal crossroads opened. The tongue moved back, making room for increasingly differentiated language in terms of phonetics as well as developing the range of vocalisations, the use of various cavities (pharynx, mouth, nose, larynx) as resonators for the voice, to give a palette of colours for expressing feelings.
 
In other words all these functions and movements of facial organs, depend on the balance of the head and the freedom of each cervical vertebra. And the same time, the way we use those expressive and sensory instruments affect or influence the freedom and mobility of the neck and more generally of the all spine.
 
With constantly renewed curiosity and creative attention to his own way of proceeding, each student will feel movement become easier, greater freedom in day-to-day activities and a true and open relationship with the outside world.



François Combeau  is a Feldenkrais teacher and Trainer.
As a teacher/practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® for 35 years, Francois Combeau has a wide range of teaching experience of ATM® lessons, including  weekly classes, theme series, and numerous seminars in Paris, throughout Europe and in Detroit (Michigan), for professionals in the fields of the arts, athletics and health. He also works with individuals helping them to develop a fuller quality of life – physically, mentally and emotionally. 
As an experienced Assistant-trainer and Trainer, he has been involved in many training in Europe, in Paris with Myriam Pfeffer, in Liege, Belgium with Yvan Joly, in Bad Windshiem, Germany with Mark Reese, and in the U.S. with Anat Baniel.  These trainers have in many ways been his mentors.  Francois has taught advanced training in France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S.  He has also the desire to share the experience he developed teaching for 15 years in small continuity educational training’s, creating a very interactive, precise and supportive way of working with students.

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Kurssin peruutusehdot:

Peruutuksen tapahtuessa myöhemmin kuin 14 päivää ennen kurssin alkua kurssimaksua ei hyvitetä takaisin. Sijaisen lähettäminen on mahdollista.

Sairaustapauksessa kurssimaksu hyvitetään lääkärintodistusta vastaan.

Kurssilla on omavastuu.

Lisätiedot: Marie Körkkö / 0408328519 / marie.korkko@gmail.com

Feldenkrais-viikonloppu Helsingissä 25.-26.9.2021



KAIKILLE AVOIN




 



 la 13-18, su 10-15

 


 Paikka:
 Studio Yama / Aleksanterin teatterin 4. Kerros
 Bulevardi 27, sisäänkäynti pikkuovesta vasemmalla puolella.

 


Opettaja: François Combeau

 


 Teema:
 “A mobile Head ; an alive, expressive, relaxed Face and more functional freedom for facial and mouth organs ”

 


 Opetuskieli: englanti

 


 Kurssin hinta: 185€

 


 Tili: FI6653180920022734 / Viesti: FC2020

 


 Ilmoittautumiset ja tiedustelut:
 marie.korkko@gmail.com / +358408328519 / Marie Körkkö

 


Tervetuloa!


Osanottajamäärä on rajoitettu – paikat täytetään ilmoittautumisjärjestyksessä.
Ilmoittautuminen on voimassa heti kun kurssimaksu on maksettu.







“A mobile Head ; an alive, expressive, relaxed Face and more functional freedom for facial and mouth organs ”


When true verticality returns, the head (the bearer of the sensory and expressive functions) being functionally supported from the feet, recovers total freedom of movement.
 By standing upright man expresses his specificity, and his considerably expanded field of observation and action.
 
This new balance and great freedom of movement, allowed a considerable development of the sensory functions and in particular, the widening of visual, auditory and olfactory fields, along the depth perception and clearness of contours…
 
Consequently, allowing man the possibility of increasing fine differentiation of the facial organs, given access to articulated language, the vehicle of thought, and facial mimicry expressing all kind of emotions becoming language by itself and the mirror of our major dynamisms and the instrument of an authentic dialogue.
 
When the larynx dropped under the effect of gravity, its suspenders developed while the voice widened its range, became more mobile, and the pharyngeal crossroads opened. The tongue moved back, making room for increasingly differentiated language in terms of phonetics as well as developing the range of vocalisations, the use of various cavities (pharynx, mouth, nose, larynx) as resonators for the voice, to give a palette of colours for expressing feelings.
 
In other words all these functions and movements of facial organs, depend on the balance of the head and the freedom of each cervical vertebra. And the same time, the way we use those expressive and sensory instruments affect or influence the freedom and mobility of the neck and more generally of the all spine.
 
With constantly renewed curiosity and creative attention to his own way of proceeding, each student will feel movement become easier, greater freedom in day-to-day activities and a true and open relationship with the outside world.

François Combeau  Is a Feldenkrais teacher and Trainer.
As a teacher/practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® for 35 years, Francois Combeau has a wide range of teaching experience of ATM® lessons, including  weekly classes, theme series, and numerous seminars in Paris, throughout Europe and in Detroit (Michigan), for professionals in the fields of the arts, athletics and health.
He also works with individuals helping them to develop a fuller quality of life – physically, mentally and emotionally. 
As an experienced Assistant-trainer and Trainer, he has been involved in many training in Europe, in Paris with Myriam Pfeffer, in Liege, Belgium with Yvan Joly, in Bad Windshiem, Germany with Mark Reese, and in the U.S. with Anat Baniel.  These trainers have in many ways been his mentors.  Francois has taught advanced training in France, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S.  He has also the desire to share the experience he developed teaching for 15 years in small continuity educational training’s, creating a very interactive, precise and supportive way of working with students.




Kurssin peruutusehdot:

Peruutuksen tapahtuessa myöhemmin kuin 14 päivää ennen kurssin alkua kurssimaksua ei hyvitetä takaisin. Sijaisen lähettäminen on mahdollista.

Sairaustapauksessa kurssimaksu hyvitetään lääkärintodistusta vastaan.

Järjestäjällä on oikeus peruuttaa kurssi – tällöin kurssimaksu palautetaan kokonaisuudessaan.

Kurssilla on omavastuu.

Lisätiedot: Marie Körkkö / 0408328519 / marie.korkko@gmail.com