Unraveling Body Anxiety: Interrupt patterns of Stress
2021 edition: An 8 lesson Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert
This series will include eight lessons, addressing breathing patterns of stress, tension in the face, eyes, neck, hands, hips and shoulders. We will explore how we can interrupt our habitual patterns of stress. We will investigate how we hold tension in our system, observing it and then disturbing it, and looking for sensations of comfort and pleasure. The series will also address some of the habitual postural patterns that occur when sitting at a computer for hours. These lessons will be helpful for anyone interested in settling the system in a novel way.
Humans adjust and habituate to anxiety in many ways, some of which can be unhealthy and have lasting effects if we do not address them. These might include inhibiting movement in the diaphragm, inhibiting digestive functions, limited mobility in the joints, and a limited ability to respond to changes in the environment. Commonly this might show up as tension in the neck, shoulders, jaw, tongue, abdomen, or hands.
In Awareness Through Movement®, we explore how we can move with the smallest amount of effort. The smallest amount of effort or exertion will facilitate the maximum amount of sensory differentiation and thus make information available for new learning. Slow movements will facilitate a parasympathetic response, the rest and digest response of the nervous system.
$180 for the 8 lesson course.
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Try the Free Introductory Lesson:
Unwinding Body Patterns of Anxiety:
This novel and gentle approach to calming the body is appropriate for everyone.
No previous experience with the Feldenkrais Method is needed to participate.
Practitioners and those with experience are welcome too!
What You’ll Discover In This Online Series:
Movement:
• This series will include eight lessons using a dynamic approach to foot health and balance. Two variations of each lesson are included, for 16 total classes.
Lessons Included in this Series:
1. Unwinding the Body Patterns of Anxiety
2. Soft Hands, Easier Shoulders
3. Inhabiting the Hands + The Whole Self
4. Orienting Towards the Light
5. Learning Ease Through Self Touch
6. Corkscrew: Turning the Ribs, Eyes, and Breath
7. Small and Tall + Breathing
8. Integrating the JawBonus Recording: Treat Yourself Shoulder Release in Sitting
Educational Talks:
• Pre lesson Anatomy lessons
• The philosophical framework for ATM
Connection:
• Recorded Q & A to listen to questions, connect with the other students, and discuss the method and tools we are learning about.
• Optional 10 minute consultation with Sarah
• Online forum to connect and ask questions if you are doing the recordings
• Email support
Ways to keep practicing:
• Stream recordings indefinitely
• Option to download recordings
Once you have purchased the course, you will have immediate access to the class recordings.
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About Sarah: Sarah Baumert is known for her thorough and diverse instruction and her dedication to holding space for individual personal discovery. She facilitates whole body alignment in her students as a way for them to access balance, strength, mobility and physical clarity. Through sensory rich movement experiments, she guides students in cultivating mindfulness and deepening their learning process. She works with a variety of populations including athletes, seniors, artists, dancers, musicians, and those experiencing injury or surgery recovery. Sarah is a certified Yoga Therapist, an Authorized Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® Teacher and Feldenkrais Functional Integration® Practitioner. Her objective is to acquire the most effective skills for helping her students live with less pain and more pleasure in their bodies.
What students are saying about Sarah’s teaching and the Feldenkrais® method:
“ I am so grateful for these Feldenkrais® lessons. As a beginner to the method, I am experiencing shifts in body acceptance, awareness and feeling IN my body. You create a safe space that feels very nonjudgmental. Past me would have never imagined feelIng comfortable moving in a group setting. Thank you Sarah!”
“I particularly liked how, without a hint of judgment, you offered a variety of possible ways we might be experiencing various movements. That really reinforced that there was no “right answer” and, therefore, led to my being more aware and honest about how I was feeling.”
“Thank you... I can’t tell you how much this has helped me. It takes me a while to get moving in the morning and and I slow down by late afternoon. It is a challenge for me to move or relax in most planes. So, to be able to do what I can do now is truly amazing, grateful for the changes so far and hopeful for more learning. BTW..the breath work connected to torso has also been a great boon for me. Thank you so much!”