Function Through Life

What is “Awareness Through Movement”- An interview with Andrew Gibbons

🎙️ What is Awareness Through Movement®? | SensAbility Podcast 🎧 🎙️ What is Awareness Through Movement®? | SensAbility Podcast 🎧This month, we sit down with Andrew Gibbons, an experienced Feldenkrais® practitioner and as...

Happy New Year! Resuming again from 10 Feb -18 June 2026 (break week of 24 March 2026) for weekly Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes with Tanya.

Welcoming back class members and newcomers for:

-A 1 hour weekly class on Tuesdays 9:30-10:30am (In-person at Fremantle PCYC) and/or Wednesdays 5:30-6:30pm (by Zoom, Australia only).

-This “All About Balance” class series is based on a research project demonstrating improved confidence with balance and falls reduction: slow, gentle, mindfull movement exploring different components of balance and movement possibilities in various positions in each novel class.

-Most postures and everyday activities require some amount of dynamic balance. These classes are designed to empower adults (of all ages living independently in the community) and to maintain or improve your balance with more confidence and efficiency in everyday life as you grow older, or injury or habits have restricted your movements.

-Additional general reported benefits of ATM classes include improvements in: sense of well-being (e.g. calm), emotional and physical resiliance, attention and thinking, chronic pain and comfort, breathing, coordination, and movement ease and efficiency.

-Casual rate of $25 per class or $120 for each 6-week block. Newcomers $20 to trial your first class.

Curious or interested for yourself or others? For more details or joining the classes, email Tanya on: [email protected].

The Feldenkrais Method practices Somatic Awareness

Wishing you a very happy and festive season. I’ll keep you posted on the February ATM class details in the New Year and look forward to Functional Integration and new client OT appointments resuming in mid February.

Functional Integration. Interested ? For an appointment in Willagee near Fremantle, Western Australia:
[email protected]

Come join the last block (or casual class) of weekly Awareness Through Movement classes for 2025. Themed “Calm before the holidays” at Fremantle PCYC.

Tuesdays 9:30am in-person: 18 Nov -9 Dec 2025

Wednesdays 5:30pm by Zoom (Australia only): 26 Nov-10 Dec 2025 (19 Dec cancelled).

Interested, Email Tanya: [email protected]

The WAOTA newsletter and photos by Rod Kevill for WAOTA from the WAOTA OT week breakfast 2025, themed “OT a Key to Understanding” have been released. I ❤️ this annual event and the celebration of OT. Heidi Brandis was the key speaker who gave an inspiring and educational presentation on PDA from a personal and professional point of view.

Sadly with increasing professional and personal commitments, I stepped down at the end of October from the Vice Chairperson and Board positions at WAOTA. Thank you for the kind words from Vera and the Board. If any OTs are interested in stepping up to the roles to help support and strengthen the WA OT profession, please approach WAOTA.

Happy OT week starting off with the WAOTA OT week breakfast and World OT day! Occupational Therapists in action making a difference in people’s lives.

https://unicare.au/blogs/celebrating-inspiring-ots-at-the-2025-waota-awards-night?fbclid=IwdGRjcANs51FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHht0Gl4q__Gm7xpRpLb1HT3u00udyCcpqkmbC_nlChtu7KpufSY0kbNZjiy8_aem_vbvQX-aFITXnGZiwjvW-uQ

A useful Feldenkrais principle.

Looking forward to the annual WAOTA OT week breakfast!