Tuesday, October 17, 2006

WAKEUP FELDENKRAIS, OFFERINGS



Undo Deficits
Enhance Excellence
Wake Up to the Moment




The goal of this work is to use our wishes
to improve our posture or our yoga or recover from a stroke or
transform a "frozen shoulder" or "sore back" or ouchie neck or
improve our already great skiing or golf, in fact, the whole Glories of Feldenkrais list:
the goal is to use that wish as the lure,
to bring us into a work that wakes us up
to the miracle of life
in the present moment,
and
to having a richer and more meaningful and
satisfying life,
as in LIFE.


Hands on Elbows
An Awareness Through Movement® lesson. Photo by Rosalie O'Conner.



Once in the moment, we begin
the path of discovery,
not only out of pain,
not only toward improving what we are already good at,
not only to greater flexibility of mind and body and spirit,
not only to increased and higher levels of organization in moving and thinking,
but to a deeper and more pure and healthy and happy
connection to ourselves.




To be aware will enable miracles to happen.
To be aware is a miracle unto itself.
This is WakeUp Feldenkrais.

The healing is in the learning,
and as we learn,
we not only heal the so-called "problem,"
or improve the already good golf or skiing,
but we increase our level of organization
and our ability to learn
and our ability to be aware.


We increase our possibilities
to have a rich, full and wonderful life.

So we are creating flexibility of our brains
and our bodies
and our potentialities.


Good stuff, amazing stuff, miraculous stuff:

Offerings:

Group Lessons


Slow and aware movements, often lying on the ground/ floor on a mat or blanket. With attention, we can connect to ourselves and move in ways of ease and understanding that we haven’t approached since we were very young.


What's New from this Point of View?
What's New From this Point of View?
Photo by Rosalie O'Conner.





Even so, the awareness is the goal, while all this sweet improvement and learning is happening.

Classes




March 17, Saturday ( St. Pat's)
10 AM- 11:30 AM

Lecture and demonstration of learning
and
stress reduction
and
re-education
and
flexibility enhancement
and
creativity support
and
self connection
and
pain transformation,

via

the the Feldenkrais Method,

Wake Up Feldenkrais

and more.

At Pharmaca.
(303 West Napa, Sonoma, Ca.)
Tele: 707-938-1147.

Free.



Transformational Movement Series
2 Classes
Sundays Noon- 2 PM
March 18 and April 1
$30 single class, prepaid.
$50 for both, prepaid.
$35 for one, $55 for both paid at the door..

Learn to move
and think
in easier
clearer
ways.
Undo pains,
increase skills,
feel younger
and happier
and healthier.


COMING WORKSHOPS
Transform via
WakeUp Feldenkrais
• Shoulders, Neck, Arms
April 28-29, 10:30 AM- 4:30 PM

• Backs and Brains
May 19-20, 10:30 AM- 4:30 PM

• Hips and Legs
June 16-17, 10:30 AM- 4:30 PM
• All workshops: $235

• Increase moving ease

• Get smarter, stronger

• Increase pleasure

• Transform Pain

• Learn to move as you
did when you were a child

• Re-learn to learn again
as you did when you were a child

• Have fun

• Learn ways of being
that bring pleasure
in many aspects of your life

• Learn ways of moving
and learning
that improve not just
"the issue"
but golf, tennis, walking, skiing,
playing with kids, gardening,
i.e. ordinary, wonderful life

• Feel & move 20 yrs younger




Specialties




Back, Neck, Shoulder Pain



Children with learning difficulties



Enhance Excellence: Sports, Music, Dance, Performance, Yoga, Gifted Children





Touch Guided Lessons, or Functional Integration®



These lessons are one on one and last 45 minutes. The client lies fully clothed on a comfortable and firm low table and is guided in gentle and directed touch in ways that wake up new possibilities of connection, improvement and that wondrous core of ourselves: AWARENESS.

The goal is to come to the sessions in the present, become illuminated and more connected to the present and to leave and go back into ones life with heightened ease, self connection, abilities and awareness.

Although we aren't "fixing" you, because of learning, you will improve in rapid and gentle and amazing ways, that not only improve your life and your moving, but your faith in your ability to change other areas of your life by presence and discovery.



Chris Elms, M.A.(Psychology), GCFP
( Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner)
To certify, the training requires 160 days over 4 years.
I have taken an additional 127 days of training, with 27 days in
Anat Baniel's Advanced Mastery with Children.
See Children with special needs
for the Anat Baniel understanding.


Contact via email at Email Chris Elms, M.A>
Or call 707-996-1437.

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