Finding Ease: Feldenkrais Foundations using Gentle Movement

A Four Lesson Awareness Through Movement mini series taught by Sarah Baumert

This series will break down some of the principles that are fundamental and foundational to the Feldenkrais® method. You could be an athlete, a long time student of movement, or be recovering from an injury - all levels of movement ability and experience are appropriate for this series. Both newcomers and consistent students of Feldenkrais will learn the principles at the heart of the method. 

The Feldenkrais Method of somatic education is a practical approach that uses gentle movement and directed attention to help people learn new and more effective ways to feel more connected to their body.

This series will discuss some of the foundational aspects of the method including imagination, spontaneity, play and curiosity, generating choices, reversibility, and exploring the self image. In an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) study context, we are “learning to learn”. Students become more sensitive and responsive to daily sensations of movement, and discover quality of life improvements that show up in unexpected places. The ATM principles and experiences from the lessons start to become part of regular life and functional movement becomes more effortless and ease filled.

Students find the method gives them a clear path to feeling a more embodied self. This will be a non-judgemental, un-intimidating space to create friends with your body (yourself!).

$75 for mini series.
For scholarship options, please inquire directly with Sarah.

What You’ll Discover In This Online Series:

Movement:
• This series will include four 60 minute Awareness Through Movement classes. 

Lessons Included in This Series:
1. Introduction to the Series
2. The Primary Image
3. Reversibility
4. Novelty and Play
5. Skeletal Support

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.

 
 
 
 
 

  1. Anyone looking for a unique and novel way to bring a deeper awareness to how they move and live in their body.

  2. People who are looking for a gentle way of becoming more aware of their body.

  3. Musicians, writers, dancers, artists, athletes, (or really anyone) who want to go to the next level in their work or passion.

  4. Anyone looking for a unique and novel way to bring a deeper awareness to how they move and live in their body.

 
 

Increase your ease and range of motion, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your innate capacity for graceful, efficient movement through these verbally guided movement sequences. Students find the method gives them a more clear entryway into feeling a more embodied self. This method allows you to discover what feels best for you, allowing for more choice in your movements, and your life. Remove outer authority from your inner body. This is a non-judgemental, non-corrective, and liberating way to experience your body in motion and an un-intimidating space to create friends with your body (yourself!).

 
 
 
 
 

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:

“The part of this work that is really sweet is the awareness. It was really cool to feel this expansiveness mobility, and that feeling of space and life and consciousness. After the last few years of stress, I am starting to feel like a different being. This class has me feeling into a lot of different places in new ways, and I just feel more human. Well, I feel as though being human is different than I thought. And it’s better! - K

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. - T

You make my anatomy conscious! - E”
 
 
 

This is a non-judgemental, non-corrective, and liberating way to experience your body in motion. You will experience learning at your pace where noticing what makes you feel good is a priority. Notice what you are curious about, and recognize that experiencing pleasure and enjoyment in your body are measures of freedom. The lessons will be suitable for all levels, and will include a variety of positions, from lying on the back or side and lying on the belly.