WEEKLY FELDENKRAIS AND YOGA CLASS SCHEDULE
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Can’t make it to any of the live classes in my schedule?
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“For a long time my mid-back has been tight to the point of soreness every morning and the best remedy has been the jets in the hot tub! After the class on Friday I noticed how fluid my back felt and now for TWO mornings, my back has felt great, first thing in the morning. Thank you so much for your teaching and the novel approach you take with sequencing the classes! I will repeat the work we did with a new eye for what caused the miracle!!”
Yoga
Sarah’s classes are a blend of flowing yoga asanas, or poses, informed by precise attention to alignment, and supported by the calm wakefulness of Buddhist meditation practices. In class you will explore how you can clarify the use of your skeletal alignment as a means to generate and increase power in your poses, resulting in the clarification of your intentions. As is customary for Sarah, class begins with gentle movement explorations and creative uses of props to help facilitate body awareness and feedback. This way of beginning brings a clarity to your movement awareness, and helps to sense the most efficient and easeful way to move the bones. From there, we move into a more active yoga practice to further understand how one’s musculature reorganizes during the poses to maintain this ease and sweetness. This slow process will help you move beyond past habitual movements and learn to cultivate an internal initiation during the asanas, even those that we find most challenging. We end our class with one of Sarah’s popular guided savasana sessions.
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement®
The Feldenkrais® Method is a form of somatic education that combines gentle movement with directed attention to enhance function and motion throughout the body. Increase your ease and range of motion, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your innate potential for graceful, efficient movement through these verbally guided movement sequences. The Feldenkrais® Method is established from principles of physics, biomechanics, and an understanding of learning and human development.
“The practice is often hard to put into words, but it is involves cultivating my awareness, questioning my relationship to productivity and ambition, and relearning how to move outside my patterns. Sarah challenges me to notice and not achieve, to rest and not perfect, to be curious instead of judgmental. I leave class feeling somehow more in my body and more of the world.” - Jeffrey Wells
By expanding self-awareness through movement sequences, students uncover new and more functional options for how to move. Become more aware of your habitual neuromuscular patterns, and progress into new ways of relating to the world and experience new forms of movement. For most, a difference can be felt after one just ATM lesson. Repeated regular practice deepens your sensitivity and potential to integrate the profound shifts from the lessons into your everyday movement and life.
Private Yoga
Sarah offers private yoga instruction to individual clients and small groups in the comfort of their own homes, at her home studio, and remotely over Zoom. While group classes can be a source of motivation, a gathering of a community, and exposure to many forms of yoga and somatic practices, there may come a time when we require private care and instruction. Private instruction is great for those newer to yoga or the Feldenkrais® method, or for one who has experience with group classes but would like to focus on particular challenges or limitations. Your practice will be completely tailored to fit your needs in an open and non-judgemental space. Private sessions are suitable for all ages and experience levels as the use of props and modifications are strongly encouraged. Each session is customized to aid the healing of injuries, aches, and pains, or to challenge your strength and learn to safely move deeper into the poses.
Sarah is currently seeing private clients virtually and in person.
Functional Integration®
Private instruction is great for those newer to the Feldenkrais® method, or for those who have experience with group classes, but would like to focus on their own personal challenges or limitations. Feldenkrais® private sessions are known as Functional Integration® (FI®) lessons. In Functional Integration, the teacher guides an individual student in movement lessons using gentle, non-invasive touch as the primary means of communication.
In a Functional Integration® lesson, the Feldenkrais teacher’s touch reflects to the student how they currently organize their body and actions. They suggest, through gentle touch and movement, expanded possibilities for new movement patterns which are more comfortable, efficient, and useful. Functional Integration lessons are flexible in their approach, determined by the student’s needs. The student may lie comfortably on a table designed specifically for the work, or do some of the lesson sitting or standing. The student learns how to reorganize their actions in new and more effective ways through the experience of comfort, enjoyment, and ease of movement. Your practice is personalized to fit your needs in an open, safe, non-judgemental space.
Sarah is currently offering Feldenkrais Functional Integration sessions in person.
