Workshop Details

Happy Springtime, Everyone!

I want to give you some specific details about the next Feldenkrais Workshop, “From Sitting (on the floor) To Standing and Back Again”, to help ease any trepidations you may have about it.

We will explore three different ways to move up and down from the floor.  Each way is very unique and will teach you a very efficient way to move yourself.    

During the first lesson we will explore sitting on the floor.  The lesson will be like any other lesson that you might do in my on-going class.  The last 5% of the lesson will teach you to use the new relationship between your head and pelvis moving in space, to bring you to standing.

The following two lessons will explore shifting of weight in standing and while standing with your feet and hands on the floor.  At the end of these lessons you will learn a very different way of returning to the floor. 

I hope to see you at this workshop.  If you have any questions feel free to contact me at anytime.
Sincerely, Donna

Introduction

Hi Everyone,
Workshops are a wonderful way to explore, improve awareness, and to even learn something impossible!  Following is a story that explains just that!

On the way home from the Easy Hands and Jaw workshop, last month one of my students called and left a message on my answering machine.  She told me that when she was walking home she heard some whistling.  She looked around to see where it was coming from and that is when she realized that she was spontaneously whistling.  She delightfully told me about this with great laughter because this was the first time in her life that she had ever been able to whistle.  She attributed it to her jaw being able to move in a new way because of what she learned in the workshop.

I hope to see you soon.
Donna

Feldenkrais Workshop

From Sitting to Standing and Back Again
Sunday, April 19, 2009
12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m.
$60.00 (when you pay by April 12)
$75.00 (when you pay after April 12)

During this workshop you will learn different ways to gracefully and more efficiently move from sitting on the floor to standing and how to reverse the movements when you would like to.  We will explore Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement lessons that will require you to bear weight on your hands and feet at times.  The lessons will help improve your awareness and the relationship between your head and pelvis moving in space.  Improving your kinesthetic sense in this way will also improve your posture, walking, and balancing.

This exploratory workshop will help to increase the length and flexiblity of your back muscles and hamstrings without stretching or forcing.  The unique movement lessons will stimulate your curiosity and enhance learning.

Donna Bervinchak will teach this workshop at the San Francisco Dance Center at 26 Seventh Street / Market St.  To sign up for this workshop call the S.F. Dance Center at 415.863.3040 x221.