Lengths and Volumes: Making Connections of Lower and Upper Body, an 8 lesson Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert. 15 classes in total, 8 unique lessons. Free introductory class April 13!
April 13 – June 8
Wednesdays at 6:30pm and Sundays at 4:00pm – no class Sunday, April 20
Livestream classes will be taught over Zoom
All lessons are recorded. Registering for the series gives you access to the recorded lessons indefinitely.
We often get caught up in feeling and thinking about movement in pieces, all the while missing the fundamental organization of the whole. In this series we will listen to ourselves globally to gain a more clear understanding of how to sense functional linkages within ourselves. We start with the skeleton and set its relationships into motion with our thinking, sensing, and imagining. I believe these lessons will leave you feeling a new sense of wholeness, and you will make intriguing connections within yourself that may take you by surprise.
Moshe once made a statement: “Someone who thinks in images thinks differently than someone who thinks in words. Words convey sequential perception, and through words we build an understanding of a whole via an additive process. This plus this plus this. An image, on the other hand, presents a whole in one perceptual schema.” We will ask: “Can images in movement help us feel the wholeness of ourselves?”
If the brain organizes movement according to intention and image, it needs to plan in images of a whole intended action. For example, if reaching for a glass, most functionally, the brain prepares the whole self to reach for the glass, not just your hand, or arm. But, how does your spine turn? Where do you lift? Where do you lengthen? The brain may recruit the components of the movement sequentially, but the full image of the movement must be pre-planned. The healthy brain is also ready and available to make adjustments when it receives sensory feedback from the external environment once the action is taking place. Most of this happens quickly and subconsciously, often by performing out our habitual ways of being. In Awareness Through Movement, we get to slow things down enough to listen to our habitual ways and learn new, more whole ways of moving.
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