VA – Move Better, Feel Better, Feldenkrais Awareness Summit 2021
Experience the Transformational Power of the Feldenkrais Method at the VA Move Better, Feel Better Feldenkrais Awareness Summit 2021!
Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your body and mind? Join us at the VA Move Better, Feel Better Feldenkrais Awareness Summit 2021 and discover the transformative benefits of the Feldenkrais Method.
Led by renowned Feldenkrais practitioners and experts, this summit offers a unique opportunity to explore the principles and practices of the Feldenkrais Method, a powerful approach to movement education and somatic awareness.
Here’s what you can expect from the VA Move Better, Feel Better Feldenkrais Awareness Summit 2021:
- Mindful Movement Practices: Immerse yourself in gentle, mindful movement practices designed to enhance your body awareness, improve mobility, and reduce tension and discomfort. Through a series of guided lessons and exercises, you’ll learn how to move with greater ease, efficiency, and grace.
- Body-Mind Connection: Deepen your understanding of the profound connection between body and mind and discover how movement can serve as a gateway to greater self-awareness and personal transformation. Explore the role of sensory awareness, perception, and intention in shaping your movement patterns and experiences.
- Functional Integration: Experience the transformative power of Functional Integration, a hands-on approach to movement education that helps you discover new possibilities for movement and self-expression. Through gentle touch and guided movement explorations, you’ll learn how to release tension, improve posture, and cultivate a sense of embodied presence.
- Holistic Well-Being: Discover how the Feldenkrais Method can support your overall well-being and enhance your quality of life. From reducing pain and discomfort to improving balance, coordination, and flexibility, you’ll learn practical tools and strategies for optimizing your health and vitality.
- Community and Connection: Connect with like-minded individuals and fellow Feldenkrais enthusiasts from around the world. Share your experiences, insights, and questions, and cultivate a sense of community and support as you embark on your Feldenkrais journey.
Whether you’re new to the Feldenkrais Method or a seasoned practitioner, the VA Move Better, Feel Better Feldenkrais Awareness Summit 2021 offers something for everyone. Join us and experience the joy of movement, the power of awareness, and the transformative potential of the Feldenkrais Method!
DAY 1 Keynote
Olena Nitefor
M.Ed., GCFP
The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education: an introduction
An introduction to the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education, meant to help lay a foundation and conceptual background for your participation in the experiences of this Summit. You will hear about some of the underlying principles behind how Awareness Through Movement lessons work through attention to gentle movement. Movements, which can sometimes feel too insignificant to make a difference, but do. You will see a video clip of a client whose attention is guided in such a way that his pain diminishes even before a hands on Feldenkrais session is started. And you will have an opportunity to ask questions.
24 hours of Around the World ATM
Coordinators
Erifily Nikolakopoulou
Frederick Schjang
Margaret Kaye
ATM Teachers and Title
Alexandros Ioannou
Andrea Hennen
David Hall
Frederick Schjang
Georgi Laney
Gisella Warmenhoven
Helena Mena
Jeff Haller
Joe Webster
Joy Ackwonu
Julieta Mateo
Larry Goldfarb
Maggy Burrowes
Margaret Kaye
Melody Lin
Michael Landau
Nadia Chavka
Nick Strauss-Klein
Rhonda Ohlson
Rob Black
Ruth Frommer
Scott Fraser
DAY 6 Language Runs Deep
Natalie Goldberg
Three Simple Lines
The true test of a haiku is not five/seven/five syllables but a three-line poem that upon hearing one creates a small sensation of space, which Allen Ginsberg said, “Is nothing less than god.” Feldenkrais, too, is about sensing the space inside you. Haiku evokes the simplest of human experience. In an Awareness through Movement class, we feel the minute connection of mind with body. In this workshop, we will explore the path of haiku and its congruency with the bare attention, pure awareness, beyond logic of the path of Feldenkrais practice.
Zoran Kovich
MSc, CFT
Words and Experience in Awareness Through Movement
Awareness Through Movement® offers us an opportunity to witness vividly the threads of experience that constitute the fabric of who we are as animate, embodied, feeling, thinking, beings. Whilst Awareness Through Movement is vocally directed, the perpetual invitation is to think/perceive/distinguish in terms of patterns of sensations divorced from the abstracted, fixity of words. Learning this ability enables us to tap into hidden resources, think originally, and create different ways of enacting what we already know — a quintessential trait for flourishing in an ever-changing body, life, and world.
Bernadette Pleasant
Movement and Sound to Nourish the Weary Soul
Racial, political, and personal stressors impact our mind and body. Now more than ever, the need to use movement as a resource for healing.
Panel Discussion
Join host
LAVINIA PLONKA and these experts
Garet Newell
MA
Daniel Banks
Ph.D.
What last year’s summit attendees are saying…
How amazing. Just a few moments before, I had the impulse to send you a poem about the body and then I went back to your interview with Gil Hedley – and you ask him to read one of his poems – and he reads that beautiful poem, Your Body.
What a chest of treasures are being shared through this Summit.
I have been positively overwhelmed by the range of speakers included in the summit this year and have actually been moved to tears by some of the presentations.
I am so grateful to you Cynthia for your beautiful interviews, your gentle approach and your ‘calm’ when things don’t necessarily go to plan.
We can all use a little “more” in our lives….
Our Wish for You: 2021 Move Better
Who doesn’t want a little more? More movement, more enjoyment, more peace, and serenity. The trick is that “a little” can be the key to more – a lot more.
Diving deep into who you are begins with an introduction to yourself and the willingness to accept and embrace. That’s where the journey begins, and where it goes from there is up to you.
Through the Feldenkrais Method, you constantly get that magnificent re-introduction to self that prompts new learning, expanded understanding, and unlimited growth. Come see what it’s all about.
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