There are no workshops or lectures scheduled at this time. Past offerings listed below. FREE Public Lecture in the Exploring Bone Health Series  Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:00 PM at Movement Dialogues Introducing Bones for Life Using mindful movement for health. The natural way to promote alignment, balance, bone strength and more! Brenda Sorkin, GCFP, Bones for Life Trainer and continuing our community collaboration with guest lecturer Acupuncturist and Teacher Abbie Mercurio, L.Ac Supporting Bone Health the 5 Element Way We welcome Abbie Mercurio, L.Ac to Movement Dialogues to talk with us about the 5 Element approach as well as herbal and nutritional aspects of bone health. We will begin the evening with a brief introduction to the Bones for Life program and then continue with Abbie's lecture as we explore all aspects of bone health in our series. This is an informal talk with opportunities for questions. Certificates of Attendance are available for CEUs for participants in the Bones for Life Certification Program. Certification program starts January 20, 2012. See Bones for Life Certification Program sidebar for more information. Bones for Life® Workshop Exploring Movement, Enhancing Beneficial Posture and Balance as you Strengthen your Bones and Improve your Walk Based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, PhD Taught by Brenda Sorkin, GCFP Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner and Bones for Life Trainer Friday, January 20, 2012 10:00 am - 1:00 pm and Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Each workshop costs $65 Each workshop focuses on different themes of the Bones for Life program. You may take one or both. To register please call 704.527.5996 or email BMountjoySorkin@aol.com Researchers are baffled about how to strengthen the body’s bones. New studies show you can actually lose bone mass with some types of prolonged exercise. But in Japanese studies, bone density increased in mice who jumped 40 times a week. Many people have too many issues around ankles, knees, hips or backs to ever jump in safety. Fortunately, the same effects can be achieved more subtly. The Bones for Life program uses the Feldenkrais tools of awareness and focused attention to bring beneficial, long-term change. Developed by Ruthy Alon, the program uses mindful exploration, rhythm, gentle pressure, and vibration to stimulate bone health and promote strength through organization and alignment. When Ruthy taught her program during one semester at the University of Tel Aviv every woman in the course increased her bone density. My own first year of study with Ruthy improved my bone density scores and reversed my osteoporosis. This workshop is for anyone interested in improving posture, strengthening bones and learning movements that benefit the whole body and mind. People who’ve already taken a Bones class will find new material among the familiar movements. SLEEP LIKE A BABY Introducing Solutions for Sounder Sleep and the Stress of Life Taught by Brenda Sorkin, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
2012 dates to be announced 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Cost: $65 To register call 704.527.5996 or e-mail BMountjoySorkin@aol.com Sleep is a basic human function essential to our well being yet over 20% of Americans suffer from insomnia each year. American doctors wrote over 56 million sleeping pill prescriptions in 2008 alone. Small, slow, repeated physical movements can shift us from the active, waking state to one of profound physical and mental repose. In that tranquil state, if we need sleep we will fall asleep. This workshop is based on the innovative work of Feldenkrais Practitioner Michael Krugman, author of The Insomnia Solution: The Natural, Drug-Free Way to a Good Night's Sleep, and developer of the Sounder Sleep System ®. Participants will learn simple, practical ways to enhance their ability to find a more tranquil state which impacts the quality of daytime life as well as promotes a good night's sleep. Each workshop draws from the variety of The Sounder Sleep System that is designed to be tailored to individual needs. Come join us! "Our food habits, sleep, regularity of rest, sex habits and all the other things we do are performed by muscular acts. And what is even more significant is that the entire organism must be brought into a state in which it obeys and executes the projected acts. Every muscular voluntary action is associated with a skeletal attitude, a vegetative state of the body with a corresponding emotional background. And, though indirectly, we have significant control over these states, mainly through voluntary motor centers." Moshe Feldenkrais in his book The Potent Self The following workshops will be taught again in the future, please contact us if you are interested.  Seeing: A
Feldenkrais Vision Quest: Exploring Movement and Vision Movement
and vision are intimate partners. At a very basic level, the turning of
the head and the movement through the skeleton impacts our self image
and our relationship with the world. We become aware of sensation,
feeling, a mood or an action when there is an action in the periphery
nervous system. Emotion brings movement in its name itself, e-motion.Taught by Brenda Sorkin, GCFP 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Cost: $65 Call 704.527.5996 to register or e-mail BMountjoySorkin@aol.com In this workshop we will be using Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement explorations that include movements of the eyes. Benefits can be wide ranging due to individual differences and needs and include greater physical comfort, mental clarity, stability in our emotional connections as well as being restorative to the eyes. Maybe you wear glasses, you're at the computer all day or just want to improve your posture, your clarity of mind, or be more comfortable in your body. Our eyes, which sit right on our brains, are integral to how we organize ourselves. Using the principles of soft focus and relaxation to include the eyes in easy movements benefit the whole body and mind. In my Feldenkrais training when my ability to move improved I was able to lower the prescription of my glasses. Last year, I worked with a Feldenkrais practitioner who had restored his sight after being declared legally blind from optic nerve damage with no hope of improvement after joining a Feldenkrais training program. He now teaches workshops and classes internationally. To coin a phrase from the founder of this approach, Moshe Feldenkrais, he made the impossible possible. An important aspect of this work is finding satisfaction in the process. We use pleasure as a guide. Bring your curiosity and join us! Feldenkrais Workshop: The Inner Labyrinth Webster's definition of a labyrinth is a structure containing an intricate network of winding passages hard to follow without losing one's way. Socrates noted it's difficult to follow such a path without a thread. In myth, Ariadne holds the thread that allows Theseus to navigate the labyrinth in order to slay the minotaur and, more important, triumphantly return.
Bringing our mindful awareness into our body not only quiets the
mind and helps us function in our busy world it can also help increase our
physical comfort and health. You might experience relief from lower back pain,
depression, asthma, incontinence, intestinal discomfort or headaches, among
other symptoms. You may also find that sexual functioning is enhanced, and you
could even find it easier to stop smoking. (Lectures to be continued in the future)
Bones for Life® Segment 2 Exploring Movement, Enhancing Beneficial Posture and Balance as you Strengthen your Bones and Improve your Walk Based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, PhD Friday, January 21, 2011 and/or Saturday January 22, 2011 (see below) Taught by Brenda Sorkin, GCFP Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner and Bones for Life Trainer Building on the foundation of Bones 1, in this second segment of Bones we continue to explore movement processes that focus our attention on how the vitality that comes with using more of ourselves enhances our daily lives. The movement processes provide a structure from which we can observe what brings us into dysfunction and an approach to experience life enhancing options that support our well being and our bones. These principles will be applied to the complexity of a natural walk and also bring in the ability to use weights safely. This workshop is open to anyone looking for a safe way to improve the quality of their movement and revitalize their bones and posture. It is being taught as an adjunct to the Bones for Life Certification Program.  Finding your Spiral: The Feldenkrais Way Or how to get down on the floor and back up Taught by: Allyson Sipple, GCFP We can look at this workshop in 2 ways: beauty and function. In our spiraling movement there are beautiful parallels in nature - shells, flowers, ferns, - the vastness of the galaxies, and our own minute, yet powerful DNA. As we move in our own spiral we may feel connected into the organic wisdom of our bodies - in tune with nature, our own dance. Then looking at function, we often find as we get older and spend more time sitting in chairs, that we lose the ability to easily get up and down off the floor. Maybe, you wish to get down on the floor to play with grandkids or want to feel ease as you move from standing to floor poses in yoga or other forms of exercise. Even just reaching to the floor to pick up something can improve in the workshop. Using spirals to guide movement, you can feel an assuredness and move more freely up and down from the floor. Come join us as we learn and play. The Feldenkrais method focuses onawareness using gentle, pleasurable, and often novel movement sequences. These verbally guided sequences, called lessons, are framed to allow and encourage exploration. Participants often notice they are moving more gracefully with less effort. Tending The Garden Taught by Brenda Sorkin, GCFP In this workshop we explore how we move in our gardens: lifting, shoveling,
pulling weeds, the whole gamut, drawing from Moshe Feldenkrais' Awareness
Through Movement lessons. We will linger with the question of how we can tend to
ourselves as we tend to our gardens to enjoy the fullness of nature. Site contents © 2011 Brenda Sorkin. All rights reserved. |
