January 14 Feldenkrais® workshop:
Get up and down from the floor with ease and joy, find more stability, ease and co-ordination.
“In every Feldenkrais class and workshop we work on preventing injury and moving with more grace and power. This workshop will focus on the stability and mobility required to manage taking care of pets. So if you walk a dog or bend over to feed or clean up after a pet, or want to feel more stable on your feet and able to respond to whatever situation comes up in your life, this is a great way to start the year more powerfully and safely.”
It’s a new year, and the world is opening up! Make yourself more nimble so you can respond to the
possibilities! We’ll use gentle and playful Feldenkrais® explorations to improve your movement so that your bones support you and you counterbalance yourself to feel graceful and light as a feather as you transition.
As a human with a body of any age, fitness level, or ongoing challenge, you’ll build many skills in addition to getting up and down more comfortably and efficiently:
Clarifying your mental map of your skeleton so all your movements can incorporate the teamwork and structure that leads to more effortless and pain-free movement.
Sensing the delicious in your movement, so your brain knows to look for it and create it.
Using less effort for day-to-day movements so you have more energy to do what you love.
Having more ideas for what to modify when any movement feels awkward or causes pain.
Beginning to change your relationship with your chronic challenge spots so they become useful tools for developing habits that serve you better.
As a Nia teacher, you’ll learn nuances and movement principles that not only help you move better
yourself, but also help you build sequences and cue in a way that helps your students learn to move closer to The Body’s Way.
About the workshop
This workshop can be experienced from anywhere via Zoom. Irene is able to see and interact with everyone beautifully via Zoom. Class is limited to 24 (to allow everybody to been seen)
About the instructor, Irene Pasternack
Irene is a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Nia Brown Belt from Bellevue, WA, and is a regular teacher in Helen Terry’s 30-day Nia Challenge. She used Feldenkrais to rehabilitate herself from being incapacitated by a herniated disc in her 40s to taking up synchronized ice skating in her 60s. Her passion is sharing these wonderful tools for feeling younger - more comfortable, more physically competent, more energetic, and more able to learn new skills. When not dancing, teaching, or working 1-1 with people, she leads llama backpacking trips, grows huge crops of berries, and helps run her synagogue.
Specials!
Sign up by Dec 31 st to be entered in a raffle for a free online private session with Irene to work on getting out of pain or improving a skill.
All workshop participants are eligible for a 20% discount on an online private session.
30 day challengers receive 50% off workshops and special events for THE MONTH THEY ARE ENROLLED IN.
365 day challengers can bring a friend for free every month (12 in total) and receive 50% off workshops and special events in 2024.
It’s a new year, and the world is opening up!
Make yourself more nimble so you can respond to the possibilities! We’ll use gentle and playful Feldenkrais® explorations to improve your movement so that your bones support you and you counterbalance yourself to feel graceful and light as a feather as you transition.