Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Lessons® (ATM®)
with guest teacher from Chicago
Kathleen Aharoni
August 3-4, 2019
with guest teacher from Chicago
Kathleen Aharoni
August 3-4, 2019
© 2007, Rosalie O'Connor. Used with permission of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America.
Training Your Mind to Improve Well-Being Through the Feldenkrais Method®
We each have the capacity to cultivate our own wellbeing by training our brain to
improve both our physical and mental health. Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais recognized
this important and limitless capacity and it is the basis of his work.
Join Kathleen Aharoni during a weekend-long series of Awareness through
Movement® (ATM®) lessons (take one or all seven sessions!) and rediscover your
innate capacity for attention, learning, trust, partnership, pleasure, presence and
more, while becoming effortlessly taller, more mobile and in greater relationship
to yourself and your environment.
The Feldenkrais Method® is based on principles of physics, biomechanics, and
an empirical understanding of learning and the evolutionary development of the
human nervous system and innate plasticity of the brain.
Through ATM® lessons, you will:
All levels of movement ability are welcome.
“Everyone, regardless of age or condition has the ability to learn and improve.”
–Deborah Bowes
“We are interested in developing capacity, not strategy.”
– Francois Combeau, Feldenkrais® Practitioner and Trainer
Feldenkrais Method®, Feldenkrais® and Awareness through Movement® are all
registered trademarks of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and are used with their
permission.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Exploring Relationships within the Pelvis and Spine -- this pelvic clock lesson
explores rolling from the perspectives of the sacrum, pubic bone and sitting
bones and stimulates the first sacral and fifth lumbar vertebrae. This very
important vertebral junction instigates and upright spine. 90 minutes
60 minute lunch
10:45 to 12:15 p.m.
Improving Upright Organization I – this lesson done lying on your side helps
the system organize movement in the upright position and improves equilibrium,
posture, our frontal and posterior sensation of self and more. 90 minutes
1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Improving Upright Organization II – this lesson, done in supine, continues your
exploration of upright organization by stimulating the thoracic spine and its
relationship to the head. 75 minutes
2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Improving Upright Organization III – this lesson, done in prone, explores the
diagonal relationships between the upper and lower parts of the trunk and their
connection through the legs, as well as how being upright is achieved through
lengthening as opposed to arching. 75 minutes
Sunday, August 4th, 2019
10 to 11:15 a.m.
Improving Rotation – this lesson, done in supine, will increase the rotational
mobility in your pelvis, spine, ribcage and head. 75 minutes
11:30 to 12:45 p.m.
Transitioning from the Back to the Belly – continuing to explore rotation, we
explore mid-line and the symmetrical use of ourselves (as opposed to being
symmetrical). Aids in balance, coordination and our self-image. 75 minutes
30 minute lunch
1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
An Unusual Instigation for Rotation – This is an opportunity to rebirth your
ribs, discover your thoracic extension, experience the ease of a head that rides
your spine and the joy of full-body rotation. 90 minutes
Fee:
$45 for 1 class
$90 for 2 classes
$115 for 3 classes
$152 for 4 classes
$191 for 5 classes
$229 for 6 classes
$250 for the entire weekend
Registration and payment are due by July 26th . Please contact Kathryn Londoff at
603-828-8155 to register. There are no refunds. There is a 6-person minimum per class.
Kathleen Aharoni, instructor, has been teaching the work of Dr. Moshe
Feldenkrais since 2003, including as faculty at Northwestern University,
Columbia College, Chicago, and Hubbard Street Dance Company. Kathleen
specializes in working with dancers, athletes, those experiencing chronic pain
and those seeking self-mastery. In addition, Kathleen is a life coach, whose
clients have included White House staff, a U.S. Ambassador, Fortune 500
employees, parents, high school and college students and artists. She is author
of the award-winning children’s book, I Breathe My Own Breath!, health mastery
columnist for Chicago Health Magazine, and owner of Water Over Stone, Inc.
Kathleen teaches Pilates, and has taught GYROTONIC® since 1998, when she
founded the community in Chicago. She is also a CranioSacral
practitioner. Kathleen is passionate about promoting embodied living and the
joyous rediscovering of the infinite wisdom of our senses.
We each have the capacity to cultivate our own wellbeing by training our brain to
improve both our physical and mental health. Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais recognized
this important and limitless capacity and it is the basis of his work.
Join Kathleen Aharoni during a weekend-long series of Awareness through
Movement® (ATM®) lessons (take one or all seven sessions!) and rediscover your
innate capacity for attention, learning, trust, partnership, pleasure, presence and
more, while becoming effortlessly taller, more mobile and in greater relationship
to yourself and your environment.
The Feldenkrais Method® is based on principles of physics, biomechanics, and
an empirical understanding of learning and the evolutionary development of the
human nervous system and innate plasticity of the brain.
Through ATM® lessons, you will:
- Become a more differentiated being and experientially learn how the greater the differentiation the more dynamic the whole.
- Learn to catalyze and understand vitality.
- Learn the importance of how vs why for forward movement
- Develop and/or sharpen your ability to recognize relational patterns and how to introduce curiosity to instigate new patterns for optimal functioning.
- Learn to hold and shift between many thoughts, while allowing for more input.
- Understand through sensation how the importance of being “right” creates stagnation and limitation and stymies creativity.
- Release physical pain.
- Gain new found freedom of thought and movement.
- Recognize and release habits.
- Develop greater trust, knowing and intelligence.
- Engage in the development of self-mastery.
All levels of movement ability are welcome.
“Everyone, regardless of age or condition has the ability to learn and improve.”
–Deborah Bowes
“We are interested in developing capacity, not strategy.”
– Francois Combeau, Feldenkrais® Practitioner and Trainer
Feldenkrais Method®, Feldenkrais® and Awareness through Movement® are all
registered trademarks of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and are used with their
permission.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Exploring Relationships within the Pelvis and Spine -- this pelvic clock lesson
explores rolling from the perspectives of the sacrum, pubic bone and sitting
bones and stimulates the first sacral and fifth lumbar vertebrae. This very
important vertebral junction instigates and upright spine. 90 minutes
60 minute lunch
10:45 to 12:15 p.m.
Improving Upright Organization I – this lesson done lying on your side helps
the system organize movement in the upright position and improves equilibrium,
posture, our frontal and posterior sensation of self and more. 90 minutes
1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Improving Upright Organization II – this lesson, done in supine, continues your
exploration of upright organization by stimulating the thoracic spine and its
relationship to the head. 75 minutes
2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Improving Upright Organization III – this lesson, done in prone, explores the
diagonal relationships between the upper and lower parts of the trunk and their
connection through the legs, as well as how being upright is achieved through
lengthening as opposed to arching. 75 minutes
Sunday, August 4th, 2019
10 to 11:15 a.m.
Improving Rotation – this lesson, done in supine, will increase the rotational
mobility in your pelvis, spine, ribcage and head. 75 minutes
11:30 to 12:45 p.m.
Transitioning from the Back to the Belly – continuing to explore rotation, we
explore mid-line and the symmetrical use of ourselves (as opposed to being
symmetrical). Aids in balance, coordination and our self-image. 75 minutes
30 minute lunch
1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
An Unusual Instigation for Rotation – This is an opportunity to rebirth your
ribs, discover your thoracic extension, experience the ease of a head that rides
your spine and the joy of full-body rotation. 90 minutes
Fee:
$45 for 1 class
$90 for 2 classes
$115 for 3 classes
$152 for 4 classes
$191 for 5 classes
$229 for 6 classes
$250 for the entire weekend
Registration and payment are due by July 26th . Please contact Kathryn Londoff at
603-828-8155 to register. There are no refunds. There is a 6-person minimum per class.
Kathleen Aharoni, instructor, has been teaching the work of Dr. Moshe
Feldenkrais since 2003, including as faculty at Northwestern University,
Columbia College, Chicago, and Hubbard Street Dance Company. Kathleen
specializes in working with dancers, athletes, those experiencing chronic pain
and those seeking self-mastery. In addition, Kathleen is a life coach, whose
clients have included White House staff, a U.S. Ambassador, Fortune 500
employees, parents, high school and college students and artists. She is author
of the award-winning children’s book, I Breathe My Own Breath!, health mastery
columnist for Chicago Health Magazine, and owner of Water Over Stone, Inc.
Kathleen teaches Pilates, and has taught GYROTONIC® since 1998, when she
founded the community in Chicago. She is also a CranioSacral
practitioner. Kathleen is passionate about promoting embodied living and the
joyous rediscovering of the infinite wisdom of our senses.
