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the feldenkrais method®


The Feldenkrais Method has two different modes of instruction:

-One hour group classes, called Awareness Through Movement, the Feldenkrais teacher verbally leads you through a sequence of movements in basic positions: sitting or lying on the floor, standing or sitting in a chair. It seeks to change the organization of your nervous system by engaging cognitive, sensorial and physical faculties. It is a series of movement explorations that takes a specific learning theme/movement pattern (i.e. flexion, extension, rolling, etc) and guides the student through a multiplicity of options for that movement pattern. This exploratory activity guides the process of learning and allows the student to discover by himself more functional ways to perform a particular motion.
The student learns this new motion and can then replicate it in daily activities. This creates a more active and ongoing participation in the student’s healing process.

-Private Feldenkrais lessons, called Functional Integration, are tailored to each student's individual learning needs; you will be fully clothed usually lying on a table as your teacher guides your movements through touch. Functional Integration is a hands-on form of tactile, kinesthetic communication. The practitioner communicates how you organize your body and, through gentle touching and movement, conveys the experience of comfort, pleasure and ease of movement while you learn how to reorganize your body and behavior in new and more expanded functional motor patterns.

The Feldenkrais Method is an educational approach that focuses on expanding kinesthetic awareness as a basis for improving function. Through gentle movement and directed attention you can increase your ease and range of motion, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your innate capacity for graceful, efficient movement. These improvements will often naturally extend to enhance functioning in other aspects of your life as well. People learning the Feldenkrais Method are usually referred to as 'students' rather than clients or patients. This reinforces our view of the work as primarily being an educational process.

Awareness Through Movement class:
Saturdays from 10:30 to 11:30 AM

For more information on the Feldenkrais method, please go to: www.feldenkrais.com

About the Feldenkrais Method
Body Image & Awareness
Learning to Learn 

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GYROTONIC and
GYROKINESIS EXPANSION
SYSTEM ®


GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® methodologies are a workout that uses gentle, organic movements in diverse sequences combined with rhythm and breath to help shift one into a new physical, mental & spiritual place. Created by Juliu Horvath, this exercise modality guides you to simultaneously stretch and strengthen your muscles and tendons while also articulating and mobilizing the joints. It incorporates many key principles from yoga, dance, gymnastics and tai-chi. This modality systematically engages the entire body and gently works the joints and muscles through rhythmic and undulating exercises. Movement stimulates the body's internal organs and different corresponding breathing patterns are integrated, thereby increasing coordination, endurance and aerobic activity.

GYROTONIC® exercises are performed on the Professional Pulley Tower, and the system is fully adjustable and can meet the needs of many people with varying body types and levels of strength. (individual sessions)

GYROKINESIS® exercises are done in group classes that encompass not only sitting but also laying and standing positions. It invigorates and re-educates the body to move with fluidity, relaxation and power.

GYROKINESIS Classes
Saturdays from 9:30 to 10:30 AM

For more information on the GYROTONIC and GYROKINESIS EXPANSION SYSTEM ® please go to: www.gyrotonic.com

 

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sounder sleep system®™

 

Renovate and renew your energy with gentle and remarkable effective movements and breathing practices that promote a calm presence during the day, and deeper, more restful sleep at night.

The Sounder Sleep System consists of gentle and effective movements called Mini-Moves and breathing techniques that relax and renew the body, calm the mind and can lead you to a deep and profound sleep. These are essential tools for self-healing and inner peace.

The Mini-Moves are specifically designed to shift our nervous system, reducing heart rate and muscle tone, restoring the physical and mental bodies. They help to fall sleep, to wake up refreshed, and to maintain and state of calm-alertness during the day. You can use it at any time you need to rest or during awaking hours, as a technique of stress reduction. They will help you to restore your natural cycles of sleep and awake and to shift from an alert, waking state to one of profound physical and mental repose, at will.

Sounder Sleep classes:
Thursdays 11:30 to 1 PM
Contact us for more dates and times

For more information on the Sounder Sleep System, please go to: www.soundersleep.com

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