Boldly go where you haven’t been: deep into your internal and outer space, all the while holding your center. An eye exploration for the whole body.
Adapted from “Esalen Workshop: Reeducation of the Eyes” by Moshe Feldenkrais.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreThis ‘ReCentering’ variation explores the internal diagonals from sternum to sacrum and the opposite diagonal from between shoulder blades to the pubis. These torso diagonals balance the front/back and top/bottom: flexibility within stability.
Adapted from “Gentle Fingers and Ribbons” lesson as taught by Alan Questel
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreAwareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 4 - Inner Alignment
The practical can also be the spiritual with intention. Align your spine for strength, flexibility and clarity.
Free and open to the public. Appropriate for all body types, levels of fitness, spiritual or religious orientation.
Thursdays in July, 9:30 AM, in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here).
Read MoreReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 5 - Play From The Elbows
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreAwareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 3 - Heart as Compass
The practical can also be the spiritual with intention. This week the intention is dual: have a deep, satisfying upper back stretch, and focus awareness on the heart.
Free and open to the public. Appropriate for all body types, levels of fitness, spiritual or religious orientation.
Thursdays in July, 9:30 AM, in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here).
Read MoreReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 4 - Meeting in the Center: Diagonals Front and Back
A familiar lesson with a new focus. How do you align your “corners” (hips and shoulders) with your center line? Can you find better left/right, front/back balance for greater stability to move with abandon?
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreAwareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 1 - Inner Vision
The eyes move and focus. And in doing so, affect the entire body. Close your eyes to track how smoothly you look forward, back, side to side, and to sense how the entire body shifts with the movement. As the lesson develops, “see” an image of what you desire to attune to where your vision is clear, and where you lose focus.
Awareness in the Sanctuary, hosted by the Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, is in its fifth year. Join BHC member and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® Jacki Katzman with special introductions by Rabbi Donna Kirshbaum. Free and open to the public. Appropriate for all body types, levels of fitness, spiritual or religious orientation.
Thursdays in July, 9:30 AM, in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here).
Read MoreReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 3 - Spine Like A Wave
Each vertebra has a role in holding the centerline of the spine. Stack the vertebrae for fluid spinal action.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreA variation on the “Dual Pelvic Clocks” lesson to explore the center point, the axis that the center rotates around.
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Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreFeeling spun, off balance, akimbo, floating, sinking, dizzy, sunken? We are all in different bodies than we inhabited a couple of years ago. This series is to bring us back to center. It will be a combination of familiar lessons presented to bring fresh insights, and a few new lessons I’ve been meaning to learn and teach. Of course, student requests are always welcome.
New Student Registration for the series. Continuing students use ongoing login. $40/month or $15/individual class. PayPal or Venmo: jackisue@aol.com. Or Jacki Katzman, PO Box 116, Bethlehem, NH 03574
Read MoreThis May, Full Body Gardening - 5- Soft Hand Weeding
Movement hacks to save your back in the garden.
Using the big muscles of the back to move the hands and arms frees your hands from tension. The better to pluck that weed, pick that tomato, tickle the puppy etc.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreThis May, Full Body Gardening - 4 - From Standing to Planting
Movement hacks to save your back in the garden.
A long back and neck make all the difference when gardening chores have you bending over. Find stability in bending, and take it step further. Imitate your grandkids and learn to easily go down to the ground and back up
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreThis May, Full Body Gardening - 3 - Pruning
Movement hacks to save your back. Do you use entire back and shoulders to direct and power cuts? Do you ground down into your pelvis for leverage and safety when lopping bigger branches. Do you remember that the softer the belly, the more protected the back? I, too, forget . That’s what this session is for.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreThis May, Full Body Gardening - 2 - Digging
Movement hacks to save your back. Using your heaviest bones and muscles to power down, with guidance and support from ribs, ankles, hands and the pelvic floor.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreThis May, Full Body Gardening - 1 - Raking
Movement hacks to save your back. This lesson connects your diagonals from hips to shoulders - to make for easy raking. Or kayaking, golfing, walking - all that jazz.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreEight Shades of Play
Lighten Up! It’s time to get serious about Play! Play is the ultimate portal to learning for kids and grownups. . We all have signature play styles developed in childhood, but as an adult, you can add to your repertoire.
Week 4 - Find the fun in two new flavors. The Explorer is drawn forward by her fascination and curiosity. The Artists draws inward to full outward self expression. Embody these paths to fun through the classic 3-way hip lesson: expand your body, your mind and your intentions.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreEight Shades of Play
Lighten Up! It’s time to get serious about Play! Play is the ultimate portal to learning for kids and grownups. . We all have signature play styles developed in childhood, but as an adult, you can add to your repertoire.
Week 3 - Find the fun in two new flavors. One path to creativity is to create a focused, structured space through the mindset of the Competitor, and then open up in that space to the mind of the Story Teller. The “Bell Hand” lesson is the container for this Competitor/Story Teller exploration.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreEight Shades of Play
Lighten Up! It’s time to get serious about Play! Play is the ultimate portal to learning for kids and grownups. . We all have signature play styles developed in childhood, but as an adult, you can add to your repertoire.
Week 2 - Find the fun in two new flavors. Be the leader of the pack (the director) and search out all the variations (the collector). Infinity hips, hula hips, figure 8s, dual clocks - all descriptions of a delightful lesson to get your hips going.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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