The Walking Series: Addressing Your Feet
An 8 lesson Feldenkrais Series with Sarah Baumert
This series will start from the ground up by addressing the form, function, suppleness, and responsiveness of your feet. These lessons will help you integrate and find coordination between the feet to the legs, all the way up through the pelvis, spine to head. We will play with finding the springy innate intelligence of the feet, allowing you to connect to the earth with greater adaptability.
From there, we will explore the head and pelvis relationship, how to move from the whole spine, and improve the freedom of your head. All of these are critical components of balance, maintaining ease in an upright posture, and effortless in walking.
The later part of the series will work with standing lessons to learn more about how you shift your weight. This clarification of the hip joints and their relationship to your feet and your spine will translate towards more ease and grace when walking.
These lessons can not only make you feel taller and stand with more ease, but in general can dramatically help you improve your balance and walk with more ease, grace, and confidence. Walking is complex, but when done efficiently, it can feel simultaneously buoyant and grounded!
$175 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.
What You’ll Discover In This Online Series?
Movement:
• This series will include eight lessons. Two variations of each lesson are included, for 16 total classes.
Lessons Included in this Series:
Introduction to the Series and How to Approach these Lessons
1. Activating the Arches
2. Planting the Whole Foot
3. Rolling Head with Frog Leg Circles
4. Shoulder and Hip Relationships for Walking
5. Where Does the Leg Begin?
6. Lifting the Inside and Outside Edges of the Feet and All That is Above
7. An Introduction to Walking Part One
8. Walking with Your Back
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.
What students have to say about this series:
“This series has definitely changed my walking. I feel much more comfortable. - Beth
Through this whole series, we were talking about feet and the legs and walking, but I was able to find relief from a shoulder injury. It was a testament to how connected the body is. It’s just miraculous. I am amazed by it. - Kathy
I feel much taller and more fluid when I walk after today’s lesson! - Betsy
After today’s lesson my feet felt like palms spreading on the floor - David”
In 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.
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. Her experience includes working with people suffering from chronic pain, injury, illness, and other forms of dis-ease. She works with a variety of populations including athletes, seniors, artists, dancers, children, and those recovering from injury, using pain management, and alignment. 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.