Fall Classes, starting Saturday Sept 13, four weeks

Classes for the Fall
Access Your Brain to
Become
an even more Amazing Person

No actual classes
in motion:
get a group together
and a place
and some mini miracles
can happen

below,
just a few
ideas
of what can be done..




Yoga & the Brain
Mon. 12:30 PM, Sat. 9:30 AM

Backs, Necks, Shoulders,
Mon. 2:30 PM
Sat. 10:30 AM

Injury, Surgery Recovery
Mon 6:30 PM

Musicians, Surgeons, Hands
Thurs, 6:30 PM


Increase Skills and Enjoy Life More

• Think more clearly


• Anti-Aging


• Move with more ease


• Re-discover how much you love to learn
  and
  be alive


• Decrease and Make Irrelevant Various
  Aches and Pains


• Recovery faster from Surgery


• Perhaps avoid surgery


• Recover from Strokes and falls and accidents


• Rediscovery how much of you there is



Starting the Second Week in September
(on the weekend of September 13
and running for 5 weeks,
to end the week of October 4-9)

Group lessons

Yoga & the Brain
Mon. 12:30 PM, Sat. 9:30 AM



• gentle, healing, vastly expansive


• "working out" the brain
  as our "body" learns to love itself more


• anti-aging as we learn new patterns,
  increase thinking and
  problem solving abilities
  and
  come to greater ease








Backs, Necks, Shoulders,
Mon. 2:30 PM
Sat. 10:30 AM


• also hips, and feet and hands


• finding joy, connection and learning
  in areas of ourself to which
  we may
  have lost a sweet and useful connection


• come to a higher level of functioning
  in anything you wish to do


• understand the spine, brain connection


• move in ways we might have forgotten for years,
  or may
  never have known


• learn to "love ourselves in
  gentle
  specific
  and non-efforting
  ways


• feel better


• have fun




Injury, Surgery Recovery
Mon 6:30 PM

• gentle, easy, on the floor


• working toward better than ever


• learning, not performance


• feel better


• have fun





Musicians, Surgeons, Hands
Thurs, 6:30 PM



• opening the ribs, shoulders hands


• letting more air in


• freeing our mobility


• delighting in easier touch


• delighting in easier movement

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These lessons are all
my own inventions.
You will find them no where else.

They are based on my 127 days of training
in the Anat Baniel Method,
including certification in her Mastery Programs for
Special Needs Children
Vitality and Anti-Aging
and
High Performers

as well as
200 days of training
in the Feldenkrais Method

These lessons
can appear to be "movement lessons"
and are really
brain lessons,
anti-aging lessons,
regaining vitality lessons,
regaining our skills lessons,
and rediscovering discovery lessons

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Costs:
One class a week: $80
two classes a week: $100
three classes a week: $120
four or more classes a week: $140

drop in rate:
$30

yoga teachers:
add 50%

enjoy
learn
love each moment
and
smile

waking up and Feldenkrais

Feldenkrais is a name
and it's a shorthand for a method
and it's a way of exploring how
to improve

improving is an improbable thing:
most people don't want to change
unless things are really horrible

this is good
and
it's not so good

we all know those few people
who are running themselves raggedy trying
everything under the sun to cure this and that
and the other

most people
however could improve
their connection to their
bodies
and the grace
and ease of their movement
by taking advantage of the Feldenkrais Method®
which is what the simple word "Feldenkrais" implies.

Feldenkrais is
really a man's last name ( Moshe Feldenkrais,
physicist, judo teacher, inventor, 1904-1984)

So , how could someone get a taste of the Feldenkrais Method?
Come to one of my classes.
Okay,
but quicker than that:
Try to link to the right
that says this:

FREE intro lesson:
Desk Trainer
(actually,
you can link right here)

That's the quickest way.

Another way might be this

1: Notice that you are sitting on two sit bones, Sitz bones,
the part of your pelvis that is for sitting

2: Lean to the left enough so that you can feel
really feel
that the weight is mainly on your left side

3: When your weight is over there on your left side,
breathe easily,
and after your breath is easy, rotate your head to the left
and to the right.

4: Notice which way seems to be easiest to rotate your head
when you have your weight to the left

5: Come back to the center. See if you notice anything different
from side to side

6: Shift most of your weight now
to the right side
to your right Sitz bone
and become comfortable with your breathing here

7: And in this position rotate your head
right and left
and notice which was seems easier.

8: That is a beginning exploration:
what is our pelvis
where is our weight
how does our head move in space
how can we try something new and be at ease
what is there to learn in some new configuration

And if you want to go further,
there is more:

9: Sitting upright
rotate your head right and left, gently
and notice how your nose moves from pointing to the front
to pointing to the side.
This is rotating your head.

Now: slightly tilt your head to the right
and the left
which means this:
when you tilt to the right, your right ear
goes closer to the floor
when you tilt to the left, your left ear
goes closer to the floor.
In both tilts your nose stays
pointing forward.

10: Practice the difference:
rotate your head right and left
tilt your head right and left

Go slowly and be gentle with your neck
and your nervous system

11: Now:
shift your weight to your left hip,
to the left side of your pelvis

and come back to the middle

and now
as you shift your weight to the left
alternate between tilting your head to the left
and tilting your head to the right

See if when you tilt your head to the right
as you shift your weight to the left side of your pelvis
if you can let your shoulders help a little
as the left shoulder comes up a little
and the right shoulder comes down

This is easier with pictures
and my digital camera is broken

desk trainer
above mentioned has a little cartoon guy to follow
oh well

so anyway

12. Now try the other side:
weight to the right side of your pelvis
and tilting your head
right and left,
letting your shoulders
and maybe even your ribs
help out with this

If confusing,
try desk trainer
or go slower
or give me a call
or buy the book:
Awareness Heals