Kristin Fredricksson PhD

I am a movement teacher, Somatic Experiencing and Feldenkrais practitioner. I am also a mother, performer and award-winning theatre-maker.

I help people of all ages and from all walks of life improve their movement skills, alleviate pain, and address chronic and life-destroying conditions. I offer you ways to support your physical and mental health, so you can find the resilience to cope with everyday life, and learn skills to self-regulate when emotional and physical pain shows up.

I have taught Feldenkrais for over 20 years and more recently trained additionally in Somatic Experiencing - the trauma resolution work created by Dr Peter Levine. Trauma and its traces are found in our bodies. These two modalities together offer an array of potent tools to process trauma, pain, injury and disease.

I work with actors, dancers, musicians and sports people to improve their performance. I trained and continue to work as a performer and improviser, so I have a particular affinity with my performer clients. I currently work extensively with actors in professional training programs at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art).

I am happy to work with companies and institutions on self-care for employees in the workplace. This can range from posture and strategies for desk-working or presentation and performance skills, to tools for coping with stress, anxiety, mental health issues and nervous system regulation.

This work transforms lives.

It has transformed my life. I was a physical performer with an ongoing back problem and repeated pattern of hamstring injury. In 2003 I began the Feldenkrais professional training program in Paris, where I lived for 12 years, and I haven’t looked back.

Feldenkrais gives me tools that sustain me in life and work in health and creativity. I was funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) to write a PhD thesis on Feldenkrais and performer training (Royal Holloway, 2018). The method goes on offering fresh vistas constantly across my professional and personal life.

When you learn to listen to your subtleties, you make a gift to the world; the gift of your better self. Whether you are young or old, fit or struggling, Feldenkrais Method can work for you. I am mother to a 12 year old girl and have used the work over the years with her in many playful ways. I have also worked extensively with autistic and other neurodivergent children and teenagers on long-term research projects funded by the AHRC with the universities of Kent and Surrey. 

Some of the issues I have helped people with are chronic pain, RSI, stroke, neurological disorders, migraine, MS, fibromyalgia, ME, scoliosis, stroke recovery, whiplash, plantar fasciitis, rehabilitation from injury, climate anxiety and pregnancy-related mobility issues.

Adding Somatic Experiencing to my resources as a teacher opens up new ways of working as well as deepening and supporting what I am able to offer with Feldenkrais. I hope we meet so you too can begin to change the way you move and go through life – make the impossible possible, easy and pleasurable!

Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Experiencing are not medical practices – they are modes of somatic education; they complement traditional healthcare, therapy and other movement practices.