Purchase an Online Course for Deeper Learning
Each course includes multiple Awareness Through Movement lessons or Yoga classes designed to inform each other. The classes are taught live on Zoom and then added to the course material. If there is a course you were not able to attend live, but you are interested in taking, the recording is available for purchase below. You will immediately receive an email about the course and have access to the course materials after purchase.
“I appreciate the way the lessons are stacked like building blocks to increase my awareness and function.”
Coming to Your Senses: Upcoming Feldenkrais Series
A new 8 week Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement Series
September 15th - November 13th, 2024
Wednesdays 6:30pm CST/ Sundays 4pm CST
Live classes will be taught on zoom*
This series will include eight lessons exploring the space of the eyes, mouth, jaw, ears, vocal and breathing apparatus and beyond. Often working in these areas will surprisingly release tension elsewhere in the body including the lower back, hips, shoulders and the abdomen. Most of the lessons in this series will be done lying on the back or the side.
Students can join anytime during the series, with the option to catch up with the recordings.
Wakeful Body
Upcoming Series Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais® Series
An new 8 week session:
September 15th - November 11th, 2024
Mondays: 6 - 7:15pm CST
Live classes will be taught on zoom*
These classes will utilize some fan favorite stretching sequences that incorporate bolsters and other props to enhance the poses. Each class is an original, innovative creation of Sarah’s teaching. She blends a more traditional gentle yoga practice with the novel Feldenkrais® awareness practices. But that’s not all, she incorporates joint specific training, functional range exercises, self-massage, breathing exercises, and a compassionate non-competitive mindset. It’s a true experience of movement therapy!
Students can join anytime during the series, with the option to catch up with the recordings.
Feldenkrais® Mini Lessons: A Series of Feldenkrais® Mini Lessons with Sarah Baumert
ALL FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSES:
Walking From Your Spine:
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
We often credit our legs for walking and running, the spine actually plays a more central role than we realize. Experience lessons designed to build awareness and skill in how the spine and torso initiate and help control our gait during walking.
The Secret Language of the Arms
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
Discover how your arms weave into the fabric of your entire being, from your core to your feet. Re-educate and re-discover the effortless movement in your hands, arms, shoulders, and beyond in this 10 week Feldenkrais series.
The Artistry of Fluid Strength
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement
In this series, we will explore Feldenkrais' unique definition of what it means to be strong and resilient; where concepts of physics and artistry will intersect during the experiments of our Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement research.
Being Good to Yourself
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
Explore lessons that promote self-connection and pleasure, finding equanimity in movement, and adapting to change with resilience. Lessons in this series will focus on the organization of the eyes and the spine to help support the head.
Autonomy & Personal Freedom
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
Teachings to empower you to find agency over your own health and sense of well being. The lessons in this series will help you discover how to utilize ground forces through your skeleton so you can find your own internal sense of length and personal freedom.
Pelvic Floor and Deep Core Rapport
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
A comprehensive whole body approach to pelvic floor and abdominal health. Learn to establish a harmonious relationship for your hips, buttocks, pelvic floor, and deep core muscles, in a novel and imaginative way. This is a WHOLE BODY approach to pelvis and abdominal health.
YoUr PoEtiC PeLviS
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
Over ten lessons, we will explore the pelvis and its connections to the whole self. This series will help you improve and clarify the fundamental movements of your pelvis for more effective action in your daily functions like walking, standing, and sitting.
Step into Ease: Intelligent Feet and Better Balance
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
This course will bring the unique principles of the Feldenkrais method to the health and function of your feet, ankles, knees, and hips, helping to improve your balance and stability.
Posture Matters
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
In this series you will learn how you “use” yourself and how new postural habits can improve to make everyday movements more enjoyable and easy. With awareness and specificity, we will free the muscles of the neck, shoulders, and spine.
Taking Play Seriously
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
This course will offer you novel, imaginative, creative ways to move your body. Stimulate a sense of curiosity, where impossible movements will start to feel more possible, possible movements more easy, and easy movements more fun!
Soften the System
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
The lessons in this course are not just exercises in relaxation, mindful awareness, or feeling good, they are ways to better know, experience, and understand your body. Get to know the sensation of a settled nervous system, a place you can return to when you need.
Finding Ease: Feldenkrais Foundations
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
This mini course will break down some of the principles that are fundamental and foundational to the Feldenkrais method, including imagination, spontaneity, play and curiosity, reversibility, and exploring the self image.
Generating Choices
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
The lessons in this course 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. This course is suitable for all levels and great for those new to the Feldenkrais method.
Freeing the Neck and Shoulders
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
In this course, we learn novel ways to reduce pain and tension and find ways towards feelings of comfort and pleasure in the shoulders and neck. The course will address some of the habitual postural patterns that occur when sitting at a computer for hours.
The Walking Series: Addressing Your Feet
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
This series will start from the ground up by addressing the form, function, suppleness, and responsiveness of your feet. Walking is complex, but when done efficiently, it can feel simultaneously buoyant and grounded! Feel taller, stand and walk with more ease.
Your Creative Coordinated Spine
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
Your spine is a centerpiece of skeletal movement. 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.
Sensing Subtlety and Satisfaction
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
The lessons in this course begin by addressing “touch hunger”, a concept that acknowledges the serious effects on our mental and physical health when we go without social touch for extended periods of times.
Unraveling Body Anxiety
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement
This course 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.
ALL YOGA + FELDENKRAIS BLENDED COURSES:
Each of these Yoga + Feldenkrais Blended classes will infuse a more traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement method. These classes are an interdisciplinary excursion of yoga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, joint specific training, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Allow your body to be your guide. All levels are welcome.
Cultivating Strength, Stability, & Balance
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
Learn new ways to move with strength and stability. Find greater confidence in standing and balancing while reducing stress. Deepen your yoga practice with a new awareness of the connection to the floor, the suppleness of your feet, your breath, and your proprioception.
Integrating Pelvic Floor, Hips, & Core
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
This series starts by learning pelvic floor mapping, an essential tool for accessing pelvic floor healing, strength, and recovery. Over ten classes we will mobilize and stabilize the hip joints in ALL directions while coordinating the pelvic floor and abdominals with these hip and pelvis movements.
Welcoming the Body
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
This installment of the Yoga + Feldenkrais blended class explores somatic sequences to find the depth of mobility and strength in the joints. This will be a nonjudgemental, un-intimidating space to create welcome your body help settle the nervous system.
A Tactile Spine
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
In this course we use a small bolster to awaken the upper thoracic, lower thoracic, and lumbar spine as the warm up for each class. We then use this tactile information and bring it into seated and standing poses for the last part of class.
Exploring Space in the Body
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
In these sessions we will invite space to become a more intimate part of our practice and our life. We will explore ways to move in harmony with our unique needs, to encourage the body to soften and connect with the feelings of space and freedom.
Rooted and Radiant Fall Series
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
In these sessions, renew your upper back, dissolve tension in the abdomen and hips, restore and rebuild with twists, and focus in on your hip rotation. This will be a nonjudgemental, un-intimidating space to create friends with your body and will specifically focus on helping settle the nervous system.
Winter Wellness
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
In these sessions we will invite space to become a more intimate part of our practice and our life. Increase your ease and efficiency in movement, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your natural capacity for graceful and organized movement through these classes.
Flourish
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
These classes touch on the whole body, from the feet, ankles, and calves all the way up to the shoulders and neck. Each class will infuse a more traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement method, self massage, breathing exercises, and a compassionate mindset.
Awaken and Restore
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
These classes have a focus on bringing sensation and intelligence to the upper back spine and the psoas complex. Includes classes such as Upper Back Oscillations, Awaken the Pelvis and Psoas, Clear Stagnation with Twists, and Neutralize the Neck.
Psoas and Diaphragm Care
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
In these classes, massage, lengthen, strengthen, and stretch the psoas, a major hip flexor that connects the lower back through the pelvis to the inner leg. The psoas shares tissues with the diaphragm, so there will be an attention to the ribs and the breath as well.
Yoga + Feldenkrais Mini Series
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
This short series includes five classes that interweave with each other to create an evolving practice. Feel the poses in a whole new way with calm, consistent, and precise instruction. Train your sensitivity in such a way that you find yourself feeling more alive and vibrant.
Moving From the Center
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
Ten classes of interdisciplinary practice including Yoga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.
Intro to Yoga + Feldenkrais
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
In 8 classes, common yoga asanas will be approached with the curiosity of a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement practice. No previous experience with the Feldenkrais Method or Yoga is needed to participate in this novel and gentle approach to yoga asanas.
Imagery and Poetics
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
Experience poetic lessons like Harmonizing the Neck and Thorax, Spine Like a Sunflower, & Listening with the Ribs. Release places that feel physically stuck, mentally tight, or emotionally restricted and uncover a new internal landscape of this body you call home.
Creative Explorations
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
A short 6 class course including the lessons: Somatic Memories, Cross Connections, Exploring How the Head Influences the Spine, Spinal Explorations, Free Hips and Shoulders, and Stabilize to Mobilize. Bring a feeling of expansiveness to the body!
Hips & Shoulders
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais
In these classes, you will get to know the hip and shoulder joints, our deepest joints with the most range of motion. Increase your ease and efficiency in movement, improve your flexibility and coordination in these deep ball and socket joints that connect the limbs to the center.
So how are these Yoga + Feldenkrais blended classes different than a regular yoga class?
These classes typically begin with an exploratory floor sequence to engage the brain-body connection, awareness of breath, and activation of specific areas of the body that will be targeted during yoga poses. The last half of class is typically slightly more of a traditional yoga practice, in which the students have the opportunity to experience the yoga asanas from a new perspective and with the information gathered from the first part of class.
Each class will infuse a more traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement method. These classes are an interdisciplinary excursion of yoga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, joint specific training, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Allow your body to be your guide. All levels are welcome.