Awareness Through Movement® Workshop
Saturday 21st August
Rolling & Hips,
Moving from the pelvis
In this workshop we will investigate moving from the centre (proximal). which is a graceful, efficient and powerful way to organise movement. In our culture of wheels and chairs this harmonious way of moving is all but lost leading to the extremities doing most of the moving (distal). Rather than the large powerful muscles easily us and the things in our world, our modern environment leads to the over use of the smaller distal muscles. This all too common organisation can lead to uneven force through the joint surfaces, shaky movement soft tissue problems and feelings of not enough power in movement.
Rolling is fundamental in human development. powerfully therapeutic and leave us feeling great.
Moving from the centre with circular movements can relieve all manner of aches and pains
11 am to 4 pm
Saturday 21 August "Rolling and Hips - youthful mobility, graceful fluidity" 11am - 4pm 5 hours $140 (includes CD of workshop) early bird discount $110 book before 11 August
http://www.sydneytheatre.org.au/
Improving things with movement :)
Peter Binns, Founder and Director of the Australian Feldenkrais Centre, is visiting Sydney to teach an Awareness Through Movement workshop at Sydney Theatre on Saturday 21st of August
The workshop focus will be on performance enhancement as well as helping participants with pain and injuries. This is a great opportunity for dancers, actors, musicians and athletes and others who rely on fine movement for their livelihood.
"How much pleasure you allow yourself will show up in your body - your breathing, pelvic floor, spine, abdomen and everywhere else. We have all constructed patterns in response to life which are largely below our awareness and regulate the intensity of life.
Awareness Through Movement workshops can produce an astounding change in the mind and body, bringing the frame and the frame of mind into a more neutral state.
This is used to reduce pain, increase flexibility and disorganise our bodily patterns of stress and the experience of stress itself.
We are primarily working with the nervous system with very gentle, precise, ingenious and sophisticated movement patterns that are surprisingly EASY!
It's not like usual exercise, it's about the brain and nervous system, a bit like learning to ride a bike, when you 'get it' you have it for good
This workshop is a rare opportunity to explore the central and profound role the pelvis plays in movement and how it presents us to the world regardless of how well you use it at the moment." Peter Binns
Background:
Peter Binns, Founder and Director of the Australian Feldenkrais Centre in Melbourne, is a trained Physical Therapist and a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. Peter specialises in Awareness Through Movement classes. Since 1989 he has worked with thousands of people including some of Australia's Olympic athletes, world champion extreme athletes and many others suffering from acute and chronic pain both with one on one Functional Integration sessions and group ATM classes. Peter has just returned from New York where he attended an Advanced Training for Feldenkrais Practitioners workshop. If you would like to find out more: www.feldenkrais.com.au
where: Sydney Theatre at 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, opposite Pier 6/7
bookings: box office (02) 9250 1999 or www.sydneytheatre.org.au
(includes a CD of movements from the workshop:)
©Australian Feldenkrais center P/L
