Winter 2010 Classes & Workshops
| Join Our Email List |
"Make
the impossible possible, the difficult easy, and the easy elegant"
-Moshe Feldenkrais
We love sharing our passion for Somatic Education with others. We'd be delighted to have you join us in a class or workshop. Our class schedule changes frequently as we're often inspired to create new learning opportunities. Join our mailing list to stay up to date. Unless otherwise noted, people of all "skill levels" are welcome to attend any of our classes. You might be an athlete, a couch potato, or anywhere in between, and you'll find life enhancing "aha!" moments and enjoyable learning opportunities. (Please note, however, that group classes are not recommended if you are in the acute phase of an injury. Contact us about private sessions if this is the case.) We recommend you wear comfortable clothing, bring padding so that you'll be comfortable on a hard floor (a blanket or fitness pad works well) and don't forget to bring an open mind and sense of humor, each of which can optimize your learning experience. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Winter 2010 Schedule- (Scroll down for details)
Workshops Winter-Spring 2010
Empelvised, Embellied, Empowered an 8 week course for women with Erin @ Vitalize Studio Thursday from Jan 14-March 6 6-7:30 ($125 pre-registered)
Freedom In the Shoulders, Neck and Jaw Sun Jan 17th 1-4:30@ SLJCC
The Less That Is More Sat Jan 23rd 2-5pm @ Avenues Yoga
The Art Of Moving Well Mondays Feb 1 -March 29 5:30-7 @ Avenues Yoga
Basics of Back Care (Through U of U Lifelong Learning) Sat. Jan. 30th 2-5pm @ Avenues Yoga
Couples Massage (Through U of U Lifelong Learning) Fri. Feb.5th, 7-10pm @ Avenues Yoga
Visiting Teacher Diana Razumny: The Power of the Pelvis Sat-Sun. Feb 20-21 @ Avenues Yoga (Saturday 1-6, Sunday 12-5) see www.movement-educators.com
Full Body Skiing: Improve Ski Skills with Feldenkrais - Sun. Feb.28, 1-4:30pm SLCJCC
Improve the Way You Swim: Sat. Mar.6, 2-5pm @ Avenues Yoga
Improve the Way You Bike: Sat. Mar.13, 2-5pm @ Avenues Yoga
Improve the Way You Run (short version): Sat. Mar.20, 2-5pm @ Avenues Yoga
Know Thyself- 5 Week Experiential Anatomy Course With Erin and Roz Newmark Thursday 6-7:30 @ Vitalize Studio
Restorative Retreat Day Sat. Mar.27, 12:30-4pm at Snowbird's Cliff Spa
Improve the Way You Run (full workshop): Sat. April 10, 1-6pm @ Avenues Yoga
Further details and registration
info will be posted in the next few days.
Contact us if you have questions:
ErinGeesamanRabke(at)gmail(dot)com
CRabke7(at)yahoo(dot)com
Monday
Drop-in Classes 5:30-7 @ Avenues Yoga Jan. 11 Rediscover Grace and
Coordination Jan. 18 Your Fabulous Hip Joints
Jan. 25 Flexible Knees and Ankles
Feb. 1 The Art of Moving Well:
Breathing Easy Feb. 8 The Art of Moving Well: Finding
Skeletal Support Feb. 15 The Art of Moving Well:
Finding Your Ground Feb 22 The Art of Moving Well: Moving
from Center Mar. 1 The Art of Moving Well: Moving
from Center 2 Mar. 8 The Art of
Moving Well: A Sense of Lightness Mar. 15 The Art of Moving Well:
Ripening Uprightness Mar. 22 The Art of Moving Well:
Reversibility Mar. 29 The Art of Moving Well:Putting
it All Together
|
A
few minutes of Feldenkrais can give you the flexibility and postural
benefits of hours of stretching exercises.
Many of the current insights of contemporary cognitive science
are illustrated by the practice of the Feldenkrais Method. |
Empelvised, Embellied,
Empowered: An 8 week course
for Women begins Jan. 14th

Thursdays, Jan.14-Mar.4 6-7:30pm
@ Vitalize Community
Studio in Sugarhouse
2154 S. Highland Drive
In a warm and safe environment, through experiential anatomy exercises,
Feldenkrais
Awareness Through Movement lessons, and more, we will explore the
experiential territory of the female pelvis. Focusing on the pelvic floor
muscles specifically, we'll also be exploring how the organization of the
pelvis is related to the functioning of the hips, lower back and abdomen.
This class is designed to introduce practical self-care solutions for all
phases of a woman's life. In addition to increasing awareness, strength,
flexibility and coordination, the learning that occurs through such
explorations can lead to improved continence and sexual vitality. The class
will also be a perfect introduction for women preparing for or recovering from
childbirth or for those who work with birthing women. I'm very delighted to
share this information. Handouts will be provided each week.
Please bring a blanket or pad for your
comfort on the floor.
Tuition for 8 weeks is $140 ![]()
-----------------------------------------------------
The Art of Moving
Well
(How do you know if you are?)
Mondays, 5:30-7pm @ Avenues Yoga
Feb.1-Mar.29
You'll notice that 9 of
the classes listed in our Monday drop in classes above share a similar title:
The Art of Moving Well.
We're inspired to offer a series of classes emphasizing the practical,
experiential understanding of some of the basic principles and tenets which
underlie the whole of The Feldenkrais Method
- and which can be so practical and helpful to learn and to personalize in
your own life and your own ways of moving in the world. We're very excited to
be offering this course!
This course will be teaching skills that can be learned at any age, in any condition. In fact, we all had the skills at one point when we were learning to move in the world, so it is more a process of re-learning what is already inside.
In this course we will not be offering rules to follow ie -"pull your abs in," "lengthen the neck," "drop your shoulders down" etc, but rather exploring experientially the principles of skillful, coordinated human movement. How do you know if your hip joints are free? What does it feel like to rest on the frame of the skeleton? How can gravity and ground forces make movement easier? What are the indicators that too much effort is being used in a movement?
Don't Miss:
Visiting Teacher Diana Razumny, Feb. 20-21 @
Avenues Yoga, 68 K St.
Saturday, 1-6pm & Sunday 12-5pm
"Power of the Pelvis: Finding & Using It"
Diana is an internationally experienced
Feldenkrais Practitioner and trainer of Feldenkrais professionals.
She's a creative, dynamic instructor and one of our dear friends and beloved
teachers. Join us for a transformative weekend of movement and self
exploration. It will be fun!
Cost is $200 (Visa/MC accepted) or $125 for
an individual day.
Join us to find a new and revitalized sense
of yourself through a weekend of Awareness Through Movement. Find out how
movement can be the source to learn more about thinking, feeling, sensing and
acting. Designed to evoke a more synergistic use of self, these movement
lessons create greater comfort, ease, and quality of movement.
Perfect for: Athletes, Performing Artists,
Yogis, Meditators, Seekers of Truth, PTs, OTs, LMTs and other health
professionals, Visual Artists, Martial Artists, Old people, Young People,
Everyone!
|
|
Saturday March 6, 2-5pm
@ Avenues Yoga, 68 K St
$40 prepaid, $45 drop in
|
Improve the Way You Bike!
Sat. March 13, 2-5pm @ Avenues Yoga, 68 K St. $40 prepaid, $45 drop in Imagine
what it would be like to bike without neck pain, without the shoulders
being sore, without feeling like a turtle afterwards...In this workshop we will explore ways to find more ease and efficiency in biking. From the head and neck to the knees, ankles and feet we will see how to find the most power with the least amount of strain and the most amount of pleasure and enjoyment. Whether you're a novice or a racer, you'll find practical information which can help your form every time you climb on your bike. As always, our medium for exploration will be Awareness Through Movement. |
Saturday March 20th 2-5pm (the
short version) $40 prepaid, $45 drop in
and
Saturday April 10th, 1-6pm (the complete version) $75 prepaid, $80 drop in
Both at Avenues Yoga, 68 K St.
For many of us the way we develop our running style is by starting to run - we
just "run the way we run." Rarely is there a context where we can return to
exploring our running to see if it is as economical, as powerful or as
enjoyable as it could be. We might attempt to follow instructions from the
experts on the "best" foot strikes or arm swings or vary the shoes we wear -
but is there a way we could we find an internal compass which could reliably
lead us to strong, efficient, and graceful running, directed from the inside
by our own experience and awareness?
In this workshop we will do several
Awareness Through Movement® lessons which can both clarify our
experience of the mechanics of running as well as awaken our capacity to
attend to many details of ourselves as we run.
As Moshe Feldenkrais often said, "When you know what you are doing, you can do
what you want." Do you know what you are doing as you run? In your hip joints?
In your ribs? With your arms? Your abs? Your toes? With your attention?
This workshop is open to those who compete in races, those who have never run,
those who used to run but it hurt too much, and those who think that running
is impossible.
The short running parts of the workshop are optional for those with injuries,
or who do not run, and the learning and discoveries in the floor lessons (like
most things Feldenkrais) can be
applied to myriad aspects of life beyond running.
If you'd like to repeat this workshop, ask us about a discount for repeat
students.
Know Thyself: Experiential Anatomy Course with Erin & Roz Newmark
Thursdays, 6-7:30pm March 11-April 8
@ Vitalize Community Studio
Join me and my dear friend Roz Newmark for
5 classes in
Experiential Anatomy and get to know
your self in an intimate, personal, visceral, beautiful way.
Roz will be guiding us in movement and
awareness explorations from the perspective of
Body Mind Centering while I'll be
teaching from the Feldenkrais
perspective. Over 5 weeks we'll explore many body systems from the inside
out. Rather than learning about your body through looking at images in books,
we'll be learning about ourselves through direct experience. We've been
dreaming of offering a course like this for years and are so excited that now
is the time! We hope you'll join us.
$75 for the course.
I'm thrilled to return
to the Cliff Spa to offer another day of restoration in their beautiful
mountain setting. I'm also very excited to be offering something new - rather
than the standard restorative yoga practice I've offered in the past, this
time we'll be working with Restorative plus
Feldenkrais. I believe working in this way will allow the relaxation
cultivated through the workshop to be more easily integrated into daily life,
as well as offering a very nurturing self-care experience. Enjoy 3 and a half
hours of deep relaxation at the Cliff Spa. In addition to enjoying quiet time
allowing the bodymind to melt into the supportive yoga bolsters and blankets,
we'll also be treating ourselves to small gentle movement sequences which can
be incredibly powerful in allowing the resolution of long standing (and often
unconscious) tension patterns - leaving you feeling open, fresh, and new.
"Make me sweet
again, fragrant and fresh and wild, and thankful for any small event,"
wrote Rumi. It's my aspiration that this weekend retreat leaves each
participant feeling just that way.
Before or after the practice, you're welcome (and encouraged) to enjoy the
world-class amenities at the Cliff Spa, including the eucalyptus steam room,
the rooftop Jacuzzi and heated chlorine-free pool with stunning mountain
views, the sauna, the workout equipment and more. Of course, when the weather
permits, you may enjoy an early morning or late afternoon ski or snowboard, or
even a hike or snowshoe in the beauty of the mountains. Towels and a locker
are provided for your use, and you can pay $5 to upgrade and receive spa
sandals and a robe. You may wish to make a day (or a full weekend) of it and
book a room in one of Snowbird's many lodges so you needn't hurry back down
the canyon but can steep yourself in the pristine mountain setting, enjoying
your own relaxed embodiment. No experience is necessary for you or a loved one
to enjoy the benefits of this practice. You're invited to bring your own props
if you have them, but additional bolsters, blankets and blocks will also be
provided.
Once you register, you'll receive an email with additional information on what
to bring, where to park, and etc.
The retreat will be limited to 18 participants. Please register in advance -
these workshops always fill!
Cost is $50 when paid in advance, $55 when paid on the day of class. For
more info on the Cliff Spa, click
here. If you plan to come with a friend or loved one(s) please register
at the same time, as these workshops tend to fill quickly. If you have any
questions, feel free to call me at 801-898-0478 or email me.

Returning to presence begins with the radical act of pausing. It is radical
both personally and socially: personally because it means going through the
temporary discomfort that arises as one returns to the living moment and
socially because one is stepping out of the cultural trance. Is there a
greater gift we can give to each other or to ourselves? - Russell Delman
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------