Your Creative Coordinated Spine: Skeletal Daily Movement

An 8 lesson Feldenkrais Series with Sarah Baumert

A strong and supple spine is essential to a healthy body. Your spine is a centerpiece of skeletal movement, it is literally the back bone of your ability to sleep, function, and move properly. 

Without a healthy spine, everyday tasks and movements like standing upright, sitting comfortably, bending over to pick up objects, walking, twisting, and turning your neck can become difficult or even painful. By learning to distribute effort evenly along the spine, these lessons will improve your ability to bend, twist, and extend, offering you more options in your daily movement repertoire.

Through novel movements, interspersed with rest, these lessons will help disentangle patterns of overuse and habits in the spine that no longer serve you.

What You’ll Discover In This Online Series:

Movement:

• This series will include eight lessons. Two variations of each lesson are included, for 16 total classes.

Lessons Included in this Series:
Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method Talk
1. Tilting Knees and Lengthening the Spine
2. Coordinating Flexors and Extensors Part 1
3. Coordinating Flexors and Extensors Part 2
4. Creative Spine, Not Achievement Spine: A Prep for Shoulder Stand
5. Moving Around a Central Axis
6. Hand to Heel
7. Coordinating Spine with Eyes and Arms
8. Intention Changes Organization: Moving Sideways to Look Up

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.

How to use the Marvelous software for livestream and recorded classes.

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.

We all have a brain that is plastic and capable of improvement and change. This is a non-judgemental, non-corrective, and liberating way to experience your body in motion.


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.

Her experience includes working with people suffering from chronic pain, injury, illness, and other forms of dis-ease. She works with a variety of populations including athletes, seniors, artists, dancers, children, and those recovering from injury, using pain management, and alignment.
 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.

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