| Sydney Awareness Through Movement Workshop |
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Awareness Through Movement® Workshop |
| Saturday 10th September |
BALANCE WORKSHOP
Balance matters, Don't lose it. How's your relationship with gravity going?
It truly is one of the most important functions in life and sadly most people leave it entirely to chance..
Balance and posture is an ongoing dialogue between gravity and and our entire system. In this workshop we will explore the feeling of balance and ways to improve it. We wil investegate unraveling the postural and movement patterns that can restore or compromise your balance. Looking to restore or improve the subtle balancing movements of the thoracic spine and the base of the neck
The chest, being the largest segment of the body, obviously plays a major role in balance. When the chest becomes ridged, even a small movement creates a large change in weight distribution demanding compensation from other parts of the body, usually in the form of tightening, further undermining balance. Along with the pattern of the "tight chest" comes a limited number of planes for breathing resulting in an increase in weight displacement with every breath, all this leads to an undermining of our movement security and therefore our self confidence & self image |
| Thoracic mobility, |
| we are going to investigate the thoracic spine, and the base of the neck (C7 - T1). We will investigate ways to free up the thoracic spine, to mobilise the ribs and the vertebrae at the base of the neck and between the shoulder blades to improve alignment and structural integrity. This area is of the utmost of importance; not only because of the postural implications, but also the functional ones like balance. When we become too hunched or "Dowagers Hump" becomes too pronounced, the natural forces that keep our skeleton healthy and functional become uncomfortable or even intolerable adding to a vicious cycle of degeneration and undermining our balance.
Mobility of the thoracic area allows for the sharing of work throughout the community of the spine and richer self expression and finer balance |
| This is a very easy and gentle set of movement lessons. |
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| Times 11 am to 4 pm |
Saturday 10th September "Thoracic mobility - graceful fluidity" 11am - 4pm 5 hours $140 (includes CD of workshop movements) Early bird discount $110 book before 27 August |
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| www.sydneytheatre.org.au |
| Improving things with movement :) |
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Peter BinnsFounder 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 disorganize 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 thoracic area plays in movement and how it presents us to the world regardless of how well you use it at the moment." Peter Binns |
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| Background: |
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| 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 |
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| (includes a CD of movements from the workshop:) |
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