Past Workshops

Asked to summarize the method in one phrase, Moshe offered "my aim is to make peace between the nervous system and gravity."

In this pair of ATM lessons, we'll refine our internal mapping of the diagonal relationships of our limbs, and then make good use of this new internal mapping in a little something that just might remind you of a Virabhadrasana...

Saturday, July 30, 2011, 12 noon - 2:00 pm
Cost: $20

1. Line of Effort
2. Second lesson: recording malfunction.

Asked to summarize the method in one phrase, Moshe offered "my aim is to make peace between the nervous system and gravity."

In this 2-hour workshop, we'll play with Archimedes's venerable principles (managing the weight of our long levers!) and find the magic feeling of weightlessness in standing that comes from accessing postural reflexes.

1. Lifting a long leg
2. Walking backward--or in a recording from a couple of years ago, Walking backward

A Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement workshop, Sunday March 7 2010, 1 - 3 pm.

At any moment, we act intentionally, and at the same time are supported by the “vegetative” processes, such as breathing, digesting, circulating blood. The autonomic and the intentional are integrated in action—the more sensitively these processes co-exist and support one another, the more vital, calm, and energetic we can be. In this pair of Feldenkrais lessons, we’ll explore the integration of breath and action, and the integration of rhythmic action of the sphincter muscles with intentional movement of the whole body.

1. Integrating breathing and action
2. Sphincters

Sunday, May 9, 2010, 1:30 - 3:30 pm

In this pair of Feldenkrais lessons, we will examine the subtle relationship of how we use the vocal tract and diaphragm, to find freedom and support through the neck, spine, and hips. In turn, finding the support of your skeleton—the essence of “good posture”—will transform your breathing and voice.

Sunday, July 11, 2010, 1:30 - 3:30 pm

In this pair of Feldenkrais lessons, you will find some surprising connections through your spine and shoulders that enable your pelvis and legs to rest more comfortably in cross-legged sitting.

A Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement workshop, Sunday January 10, 2010, 1 - 3 pm.

Finding the support of your skeleton—the essence of “good posture”—transforms your breathing and changes your voice. Conversely, by exploring how we breathe, we explore and transform our habitual posture. In this pair of Feldenkrais lessons, we will use breath and voice to find skeletal support, and use movement to transform postural holding and hence open up our breathing and voice.

A Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement workshop, NEW DATE/TIME Sunday September 20, 2009, 1 - 3 pm.

What we choose—consciously or habitually—to attend to and to ignore creates our world. The most powerful route to undoing persistent trouble spots in our bodies is to “unstick” our awareness. In this pair of Feldenkrais lessons, working with global movement themes, we will develop awareness of our habits of attention, and become more skillful in letting go of those habits, maintaining multiple levels of awareness, and letting our awareness move freely.

1. Primary Image
2. Simpler

A Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement workshop, Sunday November 8 2009, 1 - 3 pm.

What would your face feel like if it carried a little less history? What are the broad patterns of somatic engagement in emotional response to others? Underlying our emotional history and stories are the ways we feel in and through our bodies. These can themselves be explored and experimented with. In this workshop we will develop the experience of an open face and tie this, in a playful lesson, to fundamental primate themes of moving towards and away from others.

In these mini-workshops, you can try out the Feldenkrais Method (or, if you already do Feldenkrais, get a deeper experience of a theme)--and move into your weekend feeling relaxed, focused, and renewed. All workshops are at the Yoga Loft, Suite 301, 5663 Cornwallis St.