Would you like to move with more ease or improve your posture?
Are you seeking rehabilitation or wanting to improve your performance?
Would you like to feel more balanced?
Through neuroplasticity (your brain's ability to adapt and rewire through experience) you will learn how to move more efficiently, comfortably and intelligently.
Jane's approach will help you discover your habits and gently explore new options
and choices for the way you move.
Improve Movement. Improve Life.
Jane Searle is a Neurological Physiotherapist and Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® with a Master Degree of Physiotherapy in Neurological Physiotherapy.
Jane has over 20 years of experience working with a wide variety of clientele, both adults and children, and enjoys supporting people explore and discover ways of moving more efficiently and comfortably.
She has an extensive background in Neurological Physiotherapy and has worked predominantly in rehabilitation settings using a Bobath (Neuro-developmental Treatment (NDT)) physiotherapy approach. She completed her degree of Master of Physiotherapy in Neurosciences at The University of Melbourne in 2001 and held a Senior Clinician position at Royal Melbourne Hospital leading the inpatient and outpatient neurological rehabilitation teams for many years before relocating to Adelaide.
Working in Melbourne and Adelaide she has helped many people discover easier ways of moving. Her clients include those
Jane has been an active member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) and volunteered for several years on the Professional Development Committee - Victorian Branch. She has convened APA courses and has always had keen involvement in research activities. She has presented papers and research findings at various Physiotherapy conferences at a national and international level and continues to be involved in research, conferences, courses and advanced trainings to keep abreast of latest scientific knowledge to underpin her approach with clients.
Jane graduated from her four year Feldenkrais Training Programme in 2009. She is an active member of The Australian Feldenkrais Guild and coordinates the Professional Development opportunities for Feldenkrais Practitioners in South Australia. She has also participated in the International Feldenkrais Federation Competency Facilitator Training Programme in 2011 and runs competency workshops to assist practitioners in identifying areas of interest for further growth and development.
Jane currently offers individualised sessions/ group classes in Western Adelaide.
She has an extensive background in Neurological Physiotherapy and has worked predominantly in rehabilitation settings using a Bobath (Neuro-developmental Treatment (NDT)) physiotherapy approach. She completed her degree of Master of Physiotherapy in Neurosciences at The University of Melbourne in 2001 and held a Senior Clinician position at Royal Melbourne Hospital leading the inpatient and outpatient neurological rehabilitation teams for many years before relocating to Adelaide.
Working in Melbourne and Adelaide she has helped many people discover easier ways of moving. Her clients include those
- with a brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and other neurological conditions
- with chronic pain or fibromyalgia
- with dizziness or vestibular conditions
- with arthirtis, low back, neck, hip or shoulder pain
- with cerebral palsy or developmental delay
- with post traumatic stress
- during and after pregnancy
- athletes and musicians wanting to improve their performance.
Jane has been an active member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) and volunteered for several years on the Professional Development Committee - Victorian Branch. She has convened APA courses and has always had keen involvement in research activities. She has presented papers and research findings at various Physiotherapy conferences at a national and international level and continues to be involved in research, conferences, courses and advanced trainings to keep abreast of latest scientific knowledge to underpin her approach with clients.
Jane graduated from her four year Feldenkrais Training Programme in 2009. She is an active member of The Australian Feldenkrais Guild and coordinates the Professional Development opportunities for Feldenkrais Practitioners in South Australia. She has also participated in the International Feldenkrais Federation Competency Facilitator Training Programme in 2011 and runs competency workshops to assist practitioners in identifying areas of interest for further growth and development.
Jane currently offers individualised sessions/ group classes in Western Adelaide.
"I have found the Feldenkrais Method® offers people a gentle way of exploring movement and is an effective way of learning new possibilities for movement specific to each individual."
Jane Searle
BAppSc(Physio), MPT(Neuro), CFP®
News and Events
Upcoming Workshop....
Body Image: the basis of who we are and how we act
Join Associate Professor Susan Hillier for a special workshop for anyone interested in body image – dancers, actors, yoga teachers, students, rehabilitation clinicians, Feldenkrais practitioners...
10am-4:30pm, Sunday 18th June
Australian Dance Theatre studio
126 Belair Rd, Hawthorn, Adelaide
Cost $165 (includes GST). Morning tea provided, BYO lunch.
All proceeds go towards the ADT/Stroke research collaboration.
Image: Pablo Picasso, Girl Before a Mirror, 1932.
Workshop synopsis:
We create an internal sense of self in relation to our body schema and body image that is multifaceted and dynamic. In this workshop we will explore ways of understanding and influencing this complex neuro-matrix. We will explore how our body image links inextricably with our sense of ownership and agency – how we self en-act in the world. Learning will be through brief theoretical discussions, exploration and self-contemplation. Participants will gain knowledge of the neuroscience behind the processes of body image to help explain these phenomena with themselves, their clients (where these processes can become disrupted or distorted), or with students. Participants will also experience ways we can explicitly sculpt these processes using principles of neuroplasticity and multimodal sensory feedback.
To book your place - head to this link https://chuffed.org/…/dance-technology-for-stroke-rehabilit…
10am-4:30pm, Sunday 18th June
Australian Dance Theatre studio
126 Belair Rd, Hawthorn, Adelaide
Cost $165 (includes GST). Morning tea provided, BYO lunch.
All proceeds go towards the ADT/Stroke research collaboration.
Image: Pablo Picasso, Girl Before a Mirror, 1932.
Workshop synopsis:
We create an internal sense of self in relation to our body schema and body image that is multifaceted and dynamic. In this workshop we will explore ways of understanding and influencing this complex neuro-matrix. We will explore how our body image links inextricably with our sense of ownership and agency – how we self en-act in the world. Learning will be through brief theoretical discussions, exploration and self-contemplation. Participants will gain knowledge of the neuroscience behind the processes of body image to help explain these phenomena with themselves, their clients (where these processes can become disrupted or distorted), or with students. Participants will also experience ways we can explicitly sculpt these processes using principles of neuroplasticity and multimodal sensory feedback.
To book your place - head to this link https://chuffed.org/…/dance-technology-for-stroke-rehabilit…
Would you like to see things from a different perspective?
Term 2
1st May- 5th July 2017
The Feldenkrais Method® can benefit people
of all ages and all levels of performance.
See group classes
Norman Doidge has released a new book!
The book includes well written chapters about Moshe
Feldenkrais and a very clear description about the
principles of the Feldenkrais Method®.
Click here to read an excerpt.
National Pain Week is approaching us again and many Feldenkrais Practitioners from the Australian Feldenkrais Guild (a not for profit organisation) are running events all over the nation for members of our community who suffer with pain. (For nation wide events click here)
Locally in Adelaide, you can come along to a class in Lockleys, Grange or St Peters. Experience a class during this week and explore how the Feldenkrais Method may assist you to regain efficient, healthier, pain free movement. See group classes for more information
Feldenkrais Awareness Week
May 2018
What a wonderful opportunity to come along to a class and find out what it is all about!
See this short clip by Buffy Owens for a little glimpse....
Interested in joining a Feldenkrais Training Program?
Contact - Jenni Evans
You can also follow the Feldenkrais Institute of Australia on Facebook and keep up to date of the many free events they are holding this year, as well as find interesting articles and video clips about The Feldenkrais Method®.
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