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Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Class  (Starting November 1, 2009)

Students are invited into a sequence of gentle, slow movement explorations, usually lying down or sitting, designed to bring attention to habits that may be creating functional limitations.  Eyes are usually closed to invite internal sensory awareness and reduce the temptation to compare one-self to others.  Lessons are appropriate for the young, the old, the highly skilled performer and those navigating challenges in movement.  It’s beauty lies in fully embracing, supporting and validating the notion of meeting yourself where you are and finding new options that may be used or discarded as appropriate.  

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Cost:  $12 per class or  $35 for 4 or $48 for 8.  Make payment to Sarah Witham
Class length:  60 Minutes
Instructor:  Sarah Witham
For Registration and More Information, contact Sarah at (928) 527-4092 or sawitham@infomgaic.net

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The Feldenkrais Method^®

"Making the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant."

A truly healthy person has many different ways to do what s/he wants to do.  Attending to how you do what you do can open up whole new realms of possibility. 

The intent of the method is to assist students to live more fully, comfortably and effectively by expanding ways of thinking about, and perceiving possible movements, actions and ways of being in the world.  Through gently exploring verbally directed movement lessons coordinating attention, perception and imagination, improvement in personal organization often results in an experience of deep relaxation, greater comfort and reduction of chronic pain or tension.  Sometimes it means the opportunity to experience or perceive chronic pain in a different way. Because the emphasis is on awareness, students are encouraged to explore small movements, proceeding slowly enough to allow attention to the subtlest of connections.  This is an ever-deepening journey that allows experienced and beginning students to participate simultaneously in the same exploration.  The quality of attention emphasized in the Feldenkrais Method provides a wonderful tool that will enrich your experience in all other movement classes.

Emotional trauma or on-going stress, as well as physical injury, all summon a protective response pattern from the nervous system.  These patterns, necessary for protection at the onset of trauma, often remain when no longer needed, outside of awareness, continuing to cause discomfort and limitation.  By bringing awareness and attention to these habitual patterns, the protective posture is given an opportunity for change that can deeply affect the habitual defense system.  The Feldenkrais approach teaches how to tap into the nervous system’s enormous power for self-reorganization.  Employing small, slow movements, with an attitude of kindness and a high quality of attention, allows the brain to become involved in creating new learning experiences.

The Feldenkrais Method, developed in the 1040’s by Moshe Feldenkrais, Ph.D. is an educational system that uses movement and quality of attention as the mediums for learning how to learn, (the organic learning we used as infants) and for opening the central nervous system to new possibilities for improved functioning.  Faced with a crippling knee injury, Dr. Feldenkrais brought his extensive and varied education and work experiences in physics, mechanical engineering and martial arts to his investigation of how we teach ourselves to move.  How might that process be used to recover from injury and/or add new abilities to our vast repertoire of functional movement?  How might attention to how we learn be applied to how we might live our lives, interacting kindly with ourselves, with others and with our environment?  

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