ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 8 - Twist Around Center
Twist again, better than you did way back then.
Adapted from “Coordination of the Flexor Muscles and of the Extensors” by Moshe Feldenkrais
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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A summary of “Learning to learn from positive experiences,” Journal of Positive Psychology, 6 December 2021, by Dr. Rick Hansen et al, from a Feldenkrais Method® perspective.
Science validates Dr. Feldenkrais’ approach to learning, including: introducing new experiences, enriching them with variation and novelty, absorbing the learning with rest and awareness, and linking the experience to positive change with before and after body scans.
The study validates the hypothesis that this learning approach can lead to lasting positive changes.
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 7 - Inner and Outer Space
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
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 6 - Balancing Top/Bottom, Chest/Pelvis, Sternum/Sacrum
Stability and Flexibility to Go With The Flow
This ‘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
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Awareness 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).
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 5 - Play From The Elbows
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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Awareness 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).
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Awareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 2 - Inner Voice
Your own voice becomes the spiritual tool for exploring how you listen to the worlds, outside and in. The vibrations of your voice reveal tensions in the neck, jaw and body that may interfere with how you perceive and process sound.
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).
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ReCentering 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
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The Huberman Lab Podcast dives into the Art and Science of Movement with global movement star Ido Permit. Permit is a student of Dr. Feldenkrais and incorporates the Feldenkrais Method philosophy and practice into his own “Movement Culture” techniques.
Some key excerpts from the show notes included here.
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Awareness 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).
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ReCentering 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
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 2 - Transition Point
A 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
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 1 - Bow to the Center
Feeling 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.
Bow to Center - Keep your bike, kayak, crawl stroke, putt, arpeggios, etc. on the line for power and ease. Sense the subtle adjustments in your core, spine, pelvis, shoulders and head that keep you on center as you slowly, slowly, bow forward. It’s a deep, trancey session to kick off this series.
On Zoom.
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
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Adult Riders Clinic at Matthew Roy Stables
Shoulder Tips and Elbows, Deep Belly Breathing and Other Tips for Equestrians
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The Shift Network “Somatic Movement Summit” featured Feldenkrais Method teachers “representing.” MIa Segal and her daughter Leora Gaster presented “Presenting Awareness of Self in Spirit and Action.” Here are a few excerpts from their presentation.