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Hi, I'm Lorna. I’d like to help you use movement to feel connected, embodied and empowered.

I offer yoga classes, pelvic floor rehab classes (hypopressives) and Feldenkrais ATM lessons (Awareness Through Movement) in and around the Durham area.

28/10/2026

Welcome to the peace, ease, and good things program ✨✨✨

Where we stop trying to conquer your body with hard effort and harder work, and just begin to……..yield. 🌿

In Feldenkrais, we approach things in a completely different way.

Next week, I’m launching a series of Awareness Through Movement lessons that focus on developmental movement milestones.

When a baby first learns to lift its head, find its diagonals, and roll to the side, what it’s actually doing is allowing the chest to soften. The sternum melts downwards, the back ribs join the conversation, and the pelvis settles into neutral.

You can then delightfully roll to one side and experience that moment of losing control and recapturing it, as you touch the ground with a whole new perspective on your world.

It blew me away when I realized that a tight lower back arch isn’t a back problem….

….it’s a front problem. The real shift happens when you learn to soften the front.

I can’t wait for you to experience Awareness Through Movement.

Join me for this gentle yet powerful Feldenkrais experience.

✨ The Fundamental Series
📅 Starts next Wednesday, Nov 4th | 7:15pm – 8:15pm
📍 Ushaw Historic House

Click the link in my bio to book your spot, or drop me a message if you have any questions!

Softer. Slower. Smarter. ✨✨✨

27/10/2026

Most of us have a fuzzy picture of how we move. Where the ribs are. What the pelvis is doing. Why one hip feels “stuck”.

Maybe there was an injury.
Maybe it’s held tension you simply don’t realise you carry.
Maybe it’s just the way you learnt to move as a baby.
Either way it may be more comfortable to disassociate from certain sensations.
Blur the edges, ignore the feeling, but over time lose the map of yourself. Perhaps feel stiff or restricted.

Awareness Through Movement is a gentle way to bring that picture into focus.
You lie on the floor and explore slow, easy movements.

Nothing forced, no stretching, no efforting. This is not exercise.
And it might be the only class where you are instructed to do less.

By the end of the lesson you stand up and feel it: taller, lighter, clearer.

And the consequence?
Easier, more fluid, elegant efficient moving, thinking, doing.

Six weeks, Wednesdays from 4 Nov at Ushaw Historic House.
Tea and coffee included.

Book via the link in my bio, or message me with any questions.

25/10/2026

The Feldenkrais Method is notoriously tricky to explain, it really is something that has to be experienced✨

In my 50 years on this planet, I’ve leaned on so many different modalities to navigate physical pain, stress, and emotional challenges.

Massage
Shiatsu
Osteopathy
Cranial
Physio
Accupuncture
kinesiology
Rolfing
Yoga
Pilates
Meditation
Talk therapies

And while each has its place, I can wholeheartedly say that nothing compares to the feeling of standing up at the end of an Awareness Through Movement® lesson.

It’s that undeniable sensation of:

• Stress literally dropping out of your neck and shoulders

• Feeling supported from the ground up, without forcing posture

• A deep sense of physical ease and connectedness

• Mental spaciousness and clarity to resolve things that felt heavy an hour ago

The benefits are vast

🌿 Experience it for yourself this November:

Join me for Awareness Through Movement: The Fundamental Series at Ushaw Historic House in Durham.

🗓️ 6 Wednesdays starting Nov 4, 2026, 7.30-8.45pm with time for tea coffee and connection after

📍 Ushaw Historic House, Durham

💳 Investment: £66 for the full 6-week series | £14 drop-in

🎟️ Intimate group setting to ensure personalized guidance.

👉 Tap the link in my bio or comment “REWIRE” to reserve your spot today!

24/10/2026

Join me for a gentle class where the feeling matters more than the movement. Starts Wed 4th Nov, 7.30pm at Ushaw House ✨

24/10/2026

In a world that constantly asks us to push further, go deeper, and stretch harder, we often lose touch with how we’re actually moving.

We measure our practice by how far we can reach or how flexible we look from the outside.

But Awareness Through Movement® turns that completely inward.

It doesn’t matter what your range of motion is. How far you can go. How much you can do.

What matters is the quality of your sensation:

• What does the movement actually feel like?

• Is it soft, smooth, and gliding? Or feels a bit sticky and bumpy?

• Can you do less? Can you slow down enough to truly feel?

When you shift your attention from performance to sensation, your body stops resisting.

Tightness dissolves, posture eases, and movement becomes pleasurable again.

🌿 10 Days Until We Begin at Ushaw Historic House

Join me for a 6-week progressive journey into gentle, intelligent movement to reset your body and mind this autumn.

🗓️ Starts Wednesday, Nov 4, 2026
📍 Ushaw Historic House, Durham
🎟️ Intimate group setting (spaces are limited).

👉 Tap the link in my bio or comment “REWIRE” to secure your mat today!

23/10/2026

“You need to build a stronger core.” 🏋️‍♀️

How many times have we heard that advice for back pain or bad posture?

We’re told that if we just do enough planks, weight training or isolate specific muscles, our posture will magically fix itself.

In reality?

Going to the gym to build individual muscles independently doesn’t build effective posture.

Forcing muscles to hold you up just adds more strain to an already inefficient system.

Real, effortless posture isn’t something you force through exercise, it’s something you learned as a baby. 🌿

Think back to how you first learned to move:
Lifting your head off the floor
Rolling over and shifting weight
Coming up to sit and balancing effortlessly through your skeleton

You didn’t do it by gritting your teeth or pushing through pain. Your brain simply joined the dots, explored micro-movements, and built efficient connections through sensory feedback.

That’s exactly what we do in Awareness Through Movement®. We give your brain and nervous system the input it needs to remember how to support you from the inside out, fluidly, easily, and without strain.

⏳ FINAL CALL FOR EARLY BIRD!

Today is the last day to secure your spot at the discounted rate for the 6 Week Feldenkrais Experience: The Fundamental Series starting Nov 4 at Ushaw Historic House, Durham.
Wednesdays 7.30-8.45pm with time for tea coffee and connection.

If you’re ready to stop forcing your body and start moving with true ease, your mat is waiting.

🎟️ Early Bird discount ends TONIGHT at midnight.

👉 Tap the link in my bio or comment “REWIRE” right now to lock in your space before midnight!

22/10/2026

When you are habitually tense, telling yourself to “just relax” is like telling a storm to calm down.

The nervous system doesn’t respond to force, it responds to sensory feedback.

In Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®, we use tiny, slow, deliberate micro-movements.

By taking away effort, your brain gets the clear signal that it’s safe to let go. That’s when the shift happens, not from pushing, but from tuning into sensation.

6 weeks
Six opportunities to leave class with a deeply quietened, regulated nervous system
Six chances to rewire the brain and set a new pattern for ease, freedom and joy.

⏰ Early Bird Pricing Ends Tomorrow (Friday at Midnight)!

📍 Ushaw Historic House, Durham | Wednesdays starting Nov 4, 7.30-8.45pm

💬 Comment “REWIRE” or DM me to claim your Early Bird rate, including a free 1:1 with me! ✨✨✨

21/10/2026

You can know your patterns inside and out intellectually.
You can understand why you feel stressed, overwhelmed, or tense.
But knowing it in your mind doesn’t automatically release it from your shoulders, jaw, or lower back.

When our system has lived in habitual stress or holding patterns, talking about it often just re-runs the loop.

The Feldenkrais Method work from the inside out:
You don’t need to retell the story.
You don’t need to relive the emotion.

Your nervous system simply needs clear, gentle physical input to discover alternative choices.

When you give your body new options, your nervous system naturally lets go of old holding patterns.

⏳ Early Bird Offer: Save on your space for Awareness Through Movement:The Fundamental Series at Ushaw Historic House (starting Nov 4).
6 ATM lessons with time for tea coffee snd connection afterwards.

💬 Comment “REWIRE” or tap the link in bio to lock in your Early Bird spot and secure a free 1:1 session with me before Friday!

18/10/2026

Tracking the spaniel beast in his natural habitat 🐾

If you watch Dougal here, you’ll notice something brilliant: his effort is perfectly matched to the task. No over-efforting, no forcing, no rushing just for the sake of it.

He’s simply moving with pure, effortless efficiency.

As humans, we tend to do the exact opposite.

We over-effort, grip our shoulders, clench our jaws, and push through stiffness, treating every daily movement like an emergency.

Awareness Through Movement is all about unlearning that over-efforting. Teaching your nervous system how to find ease, efficiency, and comfort again, just like nature intended.

Ready to find a little more ease in your own body before winter sets in?

📍 Ushaw Historic House, Durham
🗓️ Wednesdays starting Nov 4 (Awareness Through Movement: The Fundamental Series)
🎟️ Limited space available.
💬 Drop a comment below or DM “REWIRE” to save your spot!

01/07/2026

Tomorrow evening I’ll be at
Durham Wellness Space in Coxhoe with a small group of women learning something that genuinely changed my life.

There’s still time to join us.

Thursday 2nd July, 6.30pm.
A 3wk course to a more connected, toned responsive and stronger pelvic floor.

£150 for all three sessions including take-home posture guide and audio tracks for your at home practice.

Heal your pelvic floor in just 10mins a day.

Book at lornasmithmovewell.co.uk or just reply here

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+447717826900

Website

http://www.lornasmithmovewell.co.uk/

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