Generating Choices: Learning to Evolve Our Movement
An 8 lesson Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert
This unique, eight-week online series with Sarah Baumert will explore how we can interrupt our habitual patterns and learn to evolve our movement. Feldenkrais said … “Learning in the most general sense, is acquiring new responses to stimuli”. The lessons in this series will help one sense differences in the body, select the good sensations from the useless, and help one respond to the environment around them with new options. You will experience learning at your own 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, to sitting in a chair. We will not focus in on one particular area of the body for this series, but we will zoom in on certain areas and then zoom out to see how the whole self is moving.
“I believe that knowing oneself is the most important thing a human being can do for themselves. How can one know oneself? By learning to act not as one should, but as one does. We have great difficulty sorting out what we do as we should from what we want to do with ourselves. In the end, we do not know what we want to the point of believing that what we are doing is what we really want to do. The status quo becomes more attractive to us than what we believe or say we want. An obvious solution is to preoccupy ourselves not with what we do, but how we do it. The “how” is the hallmark of our individuality; it is an inquiry into the process of acting. If we look at how we do things, we might find an alternate way of doing them … in other words, have some free choice. Fo if we have no alternative, we have no choice at all.”
The aim is to help you move towards feeling more calm and balanced, with more options for movement, action, and pleasure. Engage with a wider view of the world by releasing unnecessary emotional and physical tension, and overuse of patterns that no longer serve you. In each lesson, you will investigate how you move and relate to your body in motion, while discovering in your own way new sensations of comfort and pleasure that can lead to profound and lasting change.
$150 for the 8 lesson course.
Pay-as-able options are available at check out for this series.
For full scholarship, please inquire directly with Sarah.
“Just after two sessions, I have increased my awareness of the overall movements my body intentionally and unintentionally makes. I have a heightened appreciation for my own skeleton and my movements that seem to create their own fluidity and balance. Thank You so much!”
Train your sensitivity in such a way that you find yourself feeling more alive and vibrant.
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:
• 8 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Two variations of each lesson are included, for 16 total class
• One intro lesson and one bonus lesson as well.
Lessons included in this series:
1. Lengthening the Arm and Taking the Head Back
2. Seismic Pelvic Shifting
3. Generating Choices with the Pelvis, Ribs, and Chest
4. Pressing the Elbows and Generating Choices for the Shoulder blades
5. Hip Circles on the Side in Preparation for Arm Spokes
6. Three Directions of the Shoulder/ Arm Spokes
7. Choices in Sitting
8. Exploring Choices in the Hip Joints
9. Choices for Finding Mobility in the Chest
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.
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 people are saying about Sarah's teaching and this course:
“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.
Hi Sarah - I so enjoyed and benefitted from the last series - I injured my shoulder multiple times and I now experience regular pain in my mid back & shoulder. I found your lessons loosened that area up a lot, significantly reducing my pain and stiffness. What a relief.
Sarah - I was pleasantly surprised at the relief I experienced from this series. The classes were filled with simple things that I can incorporate into my day to bring more peace to my body, mind and spirit.”
In Feldenkrais 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.