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Sunday Workshops 2008-2009
All workshops are from 1 to 5 pm.
Early registration by preceding Tuesday $55;
otherwise $75
9/14 Growing Roots: Finding Solid Grounding for a More Uplifted Life!
Merry Muraskin*
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In this workshop, you will learn how to create your own unique grounding and how to find your own personal vertical. In the process, you can discover new options and unexpected possibilities in living. Participants will work in pairs. Bring a partner or link up with someone in the workshop.
9/21 Improving the Use of Your Arms
Scott Fraser
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Whether you are a performing artist, work at a computer or are a week-end athlete, many of us have ongoing shoulder and neck discomfort related to how we use our arms. Through his experience working with repetitive strain injuries, Scott has developed a series of A.T.M. lessons directly related to the improved use of the arms. In this workshop we will explore how to more effectively connect our arms to our core - cultivating a sense of strength and support, and a supple and free organization of our arms, leading to less neck, shoulder and arm pain.
10/5 Introduction to the FELDENKRAIS METHOD®
Scott Fraser
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Join Scott for an afternoon of exploring how the FELDENKRAIS METHOD can improve how you move and feel in your daily activities. Whether in your work-life or leisure time, learn how you can organize yourself to do the things you want to do more comfortably, effectively and with less pain.
10/26 Transformation Through Breathing
Kathy Yates
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Breathing is life. How we breathe influences our heath, movement, and peace of mind. In this workshop we will investigate how our habits of moving, thinking and feeling influence our breath. Through enjoyable movement explorations we will introduce new ideas based in concrete understanding of how the respiratory system works in conjunction with our whole system. We will begin to develop a practice that is revitalizing and empowering.
11/2 A Leg To Stand On: Powerful Posture
Rebecca Gardiner
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Some of us need a strong standing leg professionally, all of us need the confidence and ease that comes from standing well. Learn how to create new ways to stand by accessing the neuroplasticity of the brain as we discover the freedom and power available when our legs are truly underneath us.
11/9 Fit For the Life You Want to Live!
Barbara Forbes
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Learn to use the integrative power of your nervous system to reduce tension and free yourself from the self-imposed restriction - in thought and action - leading to "old age." By re-imagining your self image, and rediscovering simple, pleasurable activities you may not even be aware you have neglected, you will rejuvenate all aspects of your life.
11/16 Activating and Integrating the Soft Parts
Sharon Oliensis
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Learn how integrating movements of the eyes, tongue and pelvic floor into full body movements can dramatically improve the ease and quality of your movement, as well as provide a deeper sense of integration throughout your whole body.
12/7 Introduction to the FELDENKRAIS METHOD®
Bob Etherington
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1/11 Neck Pain, Be Gone!
Rebecca Gardiner
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Discover the remarkable ability of our brains to form new neurological connections while relieving neck pain, shoulder stiffness, and repetitive stress injuries. Using gentle innovative movement sequences, we'll learn favorable new ways of moving that provide solutions to pain while creating physical, mental and emotional well-being.
1/25 Transitions:
From Standing to Sitting to Lying
Bob Etherington
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2/8 Introduction to the FELDENKRAIS METHOD®
Barbara Forbes
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3/8 The Pleasure of Walking
Julia Pak
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We walk every day: but do we know how we do it? Is it possible that this skill we learned as children can improve? In this workshop we will discover the elements of walking. Then through mindful and easy movements and learning from our own sensation we will experience walking in a new way without the demand of being upright. We will explore the importance of the spine in walking and the role of the feet. This process will help us find strategies that make walking effortless yet powerful.
3/15 All About Feet - Part I
Kathy Yates
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Your feet work hard for you every day. Give them - and you - a chance to feel really good! Our feet have a powerful influence in how we balance in standing and move through space by sending valuable information to our brain through the many nerve endings. Having healthy feet helps us to stand and move more enjoyably, effectively and powerfully; improving the sensitivity and organization of our feet has a strong influence on our whole being. We will explore the many facets of movement in our feet and their relationship to the rest of ourselves.
3/22 Introduction to the FELDENKRAIS METHOD®
Rebecca Gardiner
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Curious about how Dr. Feldenkrais took movement out of the realm of exercise and into a conversation with the brain? Learn the specific conditions required by the brain to re-program itself and form new connections that provide solutions to pain and injury, while promoting health and well-being.
4/19 Dance Like Water - Fluid and Strong
Barbara Forbes
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You will be able to "go with the flow," even during challenging movements, when you can sense the participation of your whole self in every movement you make. Learn how AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT can help you to explore your own inner wisdom and find spontaneous power for freer, easier movement as you gain the full support of your skeleton, from the ground to the top of your spine.
4/26 Overcoming Back Pain
Rebecca Gardiner
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5/3 Lighten Up!
Gain Freedom In Your Arms & Legs
Sharon Oliensis
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By learning to access the powerful muscles in the center of your body you can experience an easy lengthening through your torso, and increased freedom and lightness in your arms and legs.
5/31 What Makes a Lesson a Lesson?
For Practitioners and 3rd & 4th Year Trainees
Scott Fraser
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6/7 All About Feet - Part II
Kathy Yates
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For those who have taken the Feet I workshop and/or are experienced with the Feldenkrais Method®, we will delve deeper into the workings and organization of our feet. Because of the complex organization of our feet and the intricate relationship to our whole selves, there is much value and potential in deepening our knowledge and awareness of the part of us that connects us to the earth as we move through our day. We will explore how improving our relationship to the ground can affect our feeling and sense of ourselves, as well as our movement.
6/14 Organic Movement:
What Your Spine Can Do!
Julia Pak
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In this workshop we will explore the primal movements of the spine and the muscles around it. Many aspects of these movements are often absent from our everyday functioning. This can cause an array of backaches and pains, a sense of limitation, strain and overuse of some parts at the expense of others. By exploring the fluid side to side and elegant wave-like movements, we will tap into the innate wisdom and efficiency of movement that remains dormant within us. Using minimal force and maximum sensitivity to seek what is easy and natural, the workshop will lead us to re-discover patterns of organic motion relevant to human vertical movement in space. By the end of the workshop you will understand more fully what your own spine does and what movements can bring a different quality to daily activities, ranging from getting out of bed to walking, swimming, and running.
* adjunct faculty
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