Taking Play Seriously: A Fun Approach to Feldenkrais
An 8 lesson Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert
In this series we will take a playful approach to the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement way of learning. These lessons will explore some of the learning and movement principles you engaged with in your early years. By stimulating a sense of curiosity, impossibly seeming movements will start to feel more possible, possible movements more easy, and easy movements more fun! These lessons show how the Feldenkrais method is a refreshing combination of dynamic action and subtle clarity. The series will offer you novel, imaginative, creative ways to move your body. Engage with a wider view of the world and your potential to relate to it.
“Curiosity is a sign of health in human and animal. When learning, do not have any intention of being correct. Do not act well or nicely. Do not hurry, as this creates confusion. The ability to learn a skill such as right - left orientation needs the childish state of mind, that ability to play while learning, to pay attention, without intending to learn. It also needs among other requirements, the ability to feel differences; that is the ability to distinguish between one sensation and another very similar one. It needs attention with intention. The child does not exercise in the sense a grown up does, by repeating an action in order to improve it. The child's attention is directed by curiosity, which is innate in all living things. Repetition in a small child is more often due to the pleasure the act evokes and to its novelty, than to intent to improve. For successful learning, we must proceed at our own rate. Babies repeat each novel action clumsily at their own rate until they have enough of it.” - Moshe Feldenkrais
$180 for the 8 lesson course
For scholarship options, please inquire directly with Sarah at sarah@body-matter.com
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:
• This series will include 8 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Two variations of each lesson are included, for 16 total classes.
Lessons included in this series:
1. Intro Talk: How to Approach Awareness Through Movement
2. Folding to Side Sitting
3. Sweeping A Circle Around Yourself
4. Sitting, Tipping, and Rolling Like a Top
5. Tilting Pelvis in Sitting
6. Rolling Through the Middle
7. Book on Foot + Imagination
8. Interlacing Toes
9. Passing the Knee to the Inside and Outside
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 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.
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 found this so joyful. At a certain point my mind just relaxes and I just let the momentum take me. And then, I am surprised at where my body even is! I find these rolling lessons very joyful.
I had a moment where I was feeling being propelled by my pelvis and it was so distinct. Everything felt easier, just less effort. And I was shocked when I got to standing! It just felt like gravity in the room was different. Because that is always difficult and it was actually kind of easy in a way.
I haven’t done a lesson in a while and I felt like my body just immediately sunk into a relaxed state. I was able to stand up in a way that I have not been able to feel in a long time.
I especially like what you said at the beginning, to allow us to let go of expectations and to drop into a beginner’s mind. I’ve done enough Feldenkrais now that I know I am going to be prompted to try to feel certain things. But these ideas of being curious and letting things happen, and letting go of some control… Wow, I am always surprised at how much I need this every time. I appreciate these classes so much.”