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Hello everyone -
After several weeks of traveling and teaching in Italy, Bratislava and California, this week my regular schedule of classes will begin again in NYC at The Breathing Project, Movements Afoot and the Society for Martial Arts Instruction - see below for details about dates and times.
Also beginning this week is the second term of the Embodied Anatomy and Kinesiology class - from February to June classes will cover the bones, joints and muscles of the limbs - we'll talk, color and move to understand the structures and how they articulate.
I am delighted to be teaching a FEET are FUNDAMENTAL workshop at Yoga Union next Saturday - if you'd like to learn more about your talus bone and how it spirals, come join us!
And if you are already looking ahead to the summer, I'll be teaching a 5 day workshop in NYC August 3 - 7. In the workshop we'll be exploring relationships between the Bartenieff Fundamentals and Body-Mind Centering - more details coming soon.
Keep checking www.embodiedasana.com for information about future workshops, and please feel free to email me at spiralamy@gmail.com with any questions.
Best -
Amy
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new FEET are FUNDAMENTAL workshops:
The SPIRAL of the TALUS
Saturday, February 7
9 am - 5 pm
In this one day workshop we will look at the skeletal and ligamentous
structures that support the flow of weight through the foot. Focusing
especially on the talus, we will explore the spirallic pathways that
remain as an expression of the fluid embryological origins of our bones
and joints.
All levels of movement experience are welcome.
@ Yoga Union
32 W 28th St, 4th Floor, NYC
FEET are FUNDAMENTAL level 2
4 Wednesdays: Feb 4, 11, 18 & 25
12 - 1 pm
$80 full series/$25 drop in
In
this four week course we will build on the anatomical material
from level 1 to explore skeletal relationships between the feet and pelvis, gait and reflexes, and the spirallic PNF patterns that integrate
the whole lower limb.
All levels of movement experience are welcome.
@ The Society for Martial Arts Instruction
4 W 18th St, 3rd Floor, NYC
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ongoing classes:
YOGA FUNDAMENTALS
tues & thurs, 7:45 - 9 amongoing (no class Tue Feb 17)Roll
out of bed and come roll around on the floor - in this class
we use
developmental patterns and Bartenieff Fundamentals
to explore the many
ways we can connect breath, body and movement.
@ The Breathing Project15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
BMC & YOGA CLASS
wednesdays, 1:30 - 3 pm
This
weekly asana class is an opportunity to deeply embody
relationships
between our body systems, developmental patterns
and yoga asana.
Open to all levels of movement.
@ Movements Afoot
151 W 30 St, 2nd Floor, NYC
Babies!
fridays, 11 am - 12 noonsuggested donation: $10
These sessions are an opportunity to share in a group
your questions and curiosities about
your baby's movement patterns.
We'll use principles from Body-Mind
Centering to explore the movements
in our own bodies and in playing with
the little ones.
Open to babies from newborn to walking, and
adults of all ages interested in observing and practicing
their own developmental movement patterns.
@ The Breathing Project15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
EMBODIED ANATOMY & KINESIOLOGY: LIMBSfridays, 1 - 3:30 pmIn
this 65-hour course we explore structure and movement from an
experiential perspective, using touch, drawing, models, movement
exercises and somatic experiences. February to June we will explore feet to pelvis and hands to scapula.There is time to sense, embody and
observe, and to discuss principles of alignment and therapeutic
applications.You can take the whole course, or drop in ($40). Class cards are available, and discounts for members
of LIMS & BMCA.@ The Breathing Project15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
A&K ASANA fridays, 3:45 - 5 pm
In response to requests, this
class will be oriented around the material taught in the Embodied
A&K class that day. You can come to the ASANA class without
attending the A&K class beforehand.
@ The Breathing Project
15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
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embodied asana® teacher training
weekend workshops:
February 20 - 22, 2009
Starting from the Contents:
the Digestive System
led by Amy Matthews
with Jill Satterfield
What happens when we initiate movement
from the organs?
How do the digestive organs help us take in,
integrate and release our experiences?
Recommended reading for this weekend is Beyond Culture,
by Edward T. Hall.
weekend schedule:
Friday: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Saturday: 11am - 6 pm
Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm
prices:
Individual workshops:
Single workshop: $400
3 or more workshops: $375 each
all 9 weekends: $3,000 (333.33 ea)
(Full 300-hour training program: $4,800
Email spiralamy@gmail.com for more information.)
PAYMENT PLANS are available.
program pre-requisites:
Participants
must have completed a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training, or equivalent
training in another discipline.
This program is intended for people who
have had basic training in anatomy and kinesiology, and have begun to
teach.
application:
Please send an email to Amy at spiralamy@gmail.com, with the following information:
Name / Address / Phone number / Email address
Previous yoga training/experience
What do you consider your strengths as a teacher?
Where would you like to have more choices in your teaching?
upcoming workshops:
March 20 - 22, 2009
Starting from the Contents: Lungs & Heart
April 24 - 26, 2009
Starting from the Contents: Kidneys & Bladder
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On the road again . . .
In February I travel to Omaha, Nebraska to teach for Omaha Yoga & Bodywork Center's Teacher Training Program.
In March I'll return to California twice - for SYTAR and another BMC & Yoga workshop.
In April the plan is to go to Israel for a series of workshops, and in May I'll be teaching in Ireland and Brighton, England - then back to California.
So far in June I'm going no further than Massachusetts.
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. . . and if you are looking for the next BMC & YOGA workshops in NYC:
in October 2009, the School for Body-Mind Centering will begin offering the Embodied Anatomy & Yoga program in NYC, co-taught by Amy Matthews and Roxlyn Moret.
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about Amy Matthews:
Amy has been teaching somatically oriented classes and workshops in dance and yoga since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, and an Infant Developmental Movement Educator. Originally a dancer and choreographer, Amy has been on the faculty of the Year-Long Certificate Program at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies since 2000, and teaches embodied asana® classes and workshops at the Breathing Project, Movements Afoot, Bodycraft Pilates and the Society for Martial Arts Instruction in NYC. Amy is co-teaching the BMC & Yoga: Embodied Developmental Movement & Yoga course in NYC, and teaching with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in the BMC & Yoga: Embodied Anatomy & Yoga course in Berkeley, CA.
Amy works privately as a movement therapist, integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga and Body Mind Centering®. Amy's embodied asana® workshops and anatomy classes are a part of the Breathing Project's Advanced Studies Program, and she has taught in training programs in Philadelphia, California, Toronto, Tokyo and Nebraska. Amy collaborated with Leslie Kaminoff on the book Yoga Anatomy, published by Human Kinetics.
Certified as a yoga teacher by Heart of Yoga and Yoga Union and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner, she is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) and with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher). Amy has participated in Gil Hedley's dissection workshops, and has studied kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd and BMC™ with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She has studied yoga with Mark Whitwell, Alison West, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner, and karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.
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Questions? Comments? Requests?
Check out the website at www.embodiedasana.com,
email spiralamy@gmail.com, or call 917 843 9537.
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