Woodstock Feldenkrais

This one is at Woodstock Yoga– formerly Bliss, on Deming Street. Now being run by Barbara Boris and Linda Lalita Winnick, this studio is offering a great lineup of classes and workshops. Check it out, if you haven’t–the space is beautiful and the teaching staff is fabulous. This is the anatomy training for their teacher training, but the public is welcome.

Dynamic Anatomy- Part 1

Sunday March 4th  1:30-4:30pm, $40 students, $60 teachers for continuing ed credit

An exploration of how the skeleton, joints and muscles arrange themselves in different asanas. Along the way students will become familiar with basic principles of  anatomy, kinesiology, and  motor learning. We will spend some time discussing how the nervous system learns and organizes movement, how we can become stuck in habitual movement patterns, and how to help someone become unstuck.

Here’s the link:

Woodstock Yoga Anatomy Workshop

I will be teaching a weekly Awareness Through Movement class at InBody, (Rte 212 next to Woodstock Physical Therapy — formerly Yoga Monkey), at 4 pm on Tuesdays. Today, February 7th will be the first class. I’ll be teaching a version of Pelvic Clock.

This new studio is being run by some really great people, and offering a variety of interesting classes– I encourage you to check it out!

I also have some anatomy workshops coming up. The first is at Euphoria, a lovely studio run with love by Corinne Gervais, on February 25th from 3:00-5:30 pm:

Dynamic Anatomy : The Head and the Torso/lots more info if you click this link:

http://euphoriayoga.org/workshops.html

IN 1972, Moshe Feldenkrais taught a workshop at Esalen which was attended by many of the luminaries of that time and place. In the course of the workshop he taught 43 Awareness Through Movement lessons that clearly presented his major thinking. We’ve been going through the lessons in my Thursday ATM classes,  more or less in order. There will be no class next Thursday, October 13th, but the following week,  the 2:00 class will be a modified version of Lesson 14, Breath — Abdomen and Chest/Saika – Tanden (or Hara).At 3:30 I will be teaching Lesson 11, Lengthening Hamstrings.

ANATOMY OF ASANA WORKSHOP
with Christine Becker
October 2nd, 2011, 3:00-5:30 $35.00
@ Euphoria Yoga in Woodstock
REGISTER: info@euphoriayoga.org

I’m planning to teach the anatomy of the arms and legs through looking at them in a few different yoga postures.  We’ll do the postures, look at them, then discuss what’s happening with the joints and muscles.  Here are the postures I’m thinking of, (subject to change in the moment if something else seems more apropos):

Tadasana – Mountain Pose, Virabhadrasana I & II – Warrior I & II,  Utthita Trikonasana – Extended Triangle, Plank Pose, Chaturanga Dandasana, Bakasana – Crow Pose, Adho Mukha Vrksasana – Handstand.

If all this is Greek to you (it’s really only Sanskrit), don’t worry. You needn’t be a yoga practitioner to participate, and you don’t have to do the asanas (postures).  I’m just using the yoga as a starting place to look at the anatomy.  I think it will be a fun and meaningful way to teach, and learn.

The Feldenkrais Method is the most sophisticated and effective method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function. – Margaret Mead, Ph.D., Anthropologist

The Feldenkrais exercises are ingenious and simple. – Yehudi Menuhin, Concert Violinist

Feldenkrais is not just pushing muscles around, but changing things in the brain itself. – Karl Pribram, M.D., Neuroscientist, Georgetown University

As a neuroscientist interested in the development and plasticity of the nervous system, it is gratifying to see how the Feldenkrais Method demonstrates these principles. The Feldenkrais Method has also greatly improved my personal quality of life – physically and emotionally – by reducing the restrictions and limitations I thought were permanent due to multiple sclerosis. – Marla Luskin, Ph.D., Emory University Medical School