Hello everyone -
I hope you are having a lovely springtime. I''m writing from Tel Aviv, Israel, where it is a beautiful spring - I'm here teaching with my dear friend Michal Yarkoni, who has arranged a whole assortment of workshops and lectures for me.
I'll return to NYC April 19th, and will be in Ireland and England from April 27 to May 5. Details on all these trips are below, and information on May's Embodied Asana Teacher Training weekend on the kidneys and bladder.
If you are planning ahead, I'll be doing a one day workshop in Amherst MA on August 1 (the topic is FEET), and a 5 day workshop in NYC August 3 - 7 (the topic is BMC & Bartenieff).
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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embodied asana® teacher training
weekend workshops:
April 24 - 26, 2009
Starting from the Contents:
Kidneys and Bladder
led by Amy Matthews
What happens when we initiate movement from the kidneys & bladder?
How do we nourish and ground ourselves?
How do we support the organs
that provide our resources?
In this workshop we will explore the anatomy, embryology and embodiment of the kidneys, bladder and urogenital system.
These workshops are open to anyone who has completed a
200 hr Teacher Training program, or an equivalent amount of training in
another discipline, and you can come to one weekend without doing them
all. They are for people who are interested in expanding their
understanding of anatomy, kinesiology and physiology, and who want to
develop their teaching skills in the context of embodiement.
Recommended reading for this weekend is The Book of 12 Winds, by Karl Geis.
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:
May 15 - 17, 2009
Shifting Consciousness: Embodied Breathing #2
June 12 - 14, 2009
Embodying Space: Spatial Pulls, Planes, and Space Harmony
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ongoing classes:
YOGA FUNDAMENTALS
tues & thurs, 7:45 - 9 amno class: 4/14 & 16, 4/28 & 30Roll
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 Project
15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
BMC & YOGA CLASS
wednesdays, 1:30 - 3 pm
no class: 4/15, 4/29
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
49 W 27th St, Mezzanine B, NYC
Babies!
fridays, 11 am - 12 noonno class: 4/17, 5/1suggested 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 Project
15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
EMBODIED ANATOMY & KINESIOLOGY: LIMBS
fridays, 1 - 3:30 pm
no class: 4/17, 5/1
In
this 65-hour course we explore structure and movement
from an
experiential perspective, using touch, drawing, models,
movement
exercises and somatic experiences.
From 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 Project
15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
A&K ASANA
fridays, 3:45 - 5 pm
no class: 4/17, 5/1
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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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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SUMMER 2009 WORKSHOPS:
August 1, 2009
FEET ARE FUNDAMENTAL
A one-day workshop at
Yoga Center Amherst in Amherst, MA looking at basic structures and spirals in the feet.
Saturday, 12 - 6:30 pm
Cost: $105 if you register by July 1. After July 1, the cost is $115.
For more information and to register, visit the Yoga Center Amherst website.
August 3 - 7, 2009
BARTENIEFF FUNDAMENTALS & BODY-MIND CENTERING®
A 5-day workshop at The Breathing Project in NYC exploring the relationships between the Bartenieff Fundamentals & BMC.
Monday - Friday,
9:30 - 6:30 each day.
Cost: $750 if you register by July 11.
After July 11, the cost is $975.
Deposit of $250 to register, email spiralamy@gmail.com with questions.
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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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Questions? Comments? Requests?
Check out the website at www.embodiedasana.com,
email spiralamy@gmail.com, or call 917 843 9537.
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