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Hello everyone -
All kinds of things are starting up in the next few weeks!
This Friday (September 25) at The Breathing Project, three classes are beginning again: Babies!, the fall semester of Embodied Anatomy & Kinesiology and A&K Asana. Your first Embodied Anatomy & Kinesiology class is free, so if you are interested in deepening your experience of anatomy, come check it out. (Details are below.)
In October two programs are beginning in NY - the second year of Embodied Asana workshops begins with The Spine as a Limb: Head & Neck (taught by me). A new BMC & Yoga: Embodied Anatomy program also starts, with a workshop on the Lower Limbs (co-taught by myself and Roxlyn Moret). I'll also be traveling to Japan again, to teach in Tokyo for a week.
Many thanks to those of you who participated in the summer intensive - we had a wonderful week of exploring BMC and the Bartenieff Fundamentals. If you're planning ahead, it looks like next summer's workshop will focus on PNF patterns.
Finally, if you are interested in getting 'hands-on' in another way, I'll be participating in Gil Hedley's cadaver dissection in May 2010 - this will be my fourth time participating, and it's an incredibly rich experience every time.
More details on all these classes and workshops are below - and please feel free to email me at spiralamy@gmail.com with any questions.
Best - Amy
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The Breathing Project's
Advanced Studies Program:
embodied asana® weekends
As part of The Breathing Project's newly expanded Advanced Studies Program, this series of workshops is offered to 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.
Pre-requisites for attendance are completion of a basic Teacher Training program (or an equivalent amount of training in
another discipline) and a year's experience teaching.
upcoming workshops:
The Spine as a Limb:
Head & Neck
October 2- 4, 2009 Sacrum & Tail
December 4 - 6, 2009
In these two workshops we will look in detail at the head, neck, sacrum and tail - their embryological origins, structural details, and movement possibilities.
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
10 or more workshops: $300 each
(Full 500+ hour training program: $9,000.
Go to The Breathing Project's website for more information.)
payment plans are available, and a limited amount of work-study.
program pre-requisites:
Participants
must have completed a basic Yoga Teacher Training program, or equivalent
training in another discipline.
This program is intended for people who
have had basic training in anatomy and kinesiology, and have been teaching for a year.
application:
Please email me at spiralamy@gmail.com, and I will send you an application form.
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ongoing embodied asana classes:
YOGA FUNDAMENTALS
tues & thurs, 7:45 - 9 am
no class: 10/6, 10/8, 10/13
pay what you can, suggested price: $16
Roll
out of bed and come roll around on the floor - this class weaves together principles of embodied anatomy,
developmental movement, the Bartenieff Fundamentals and Proprioceptive
Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) to take you on a tour of your own body
and breath.
The full class is spend lying on the floor, focussing
deeply on connectivity within the body and your relationship with
gravity and space. These relationships and connections are the building
blocks for our activities of daily life, as well as for practices like
yoga asana, martial arts, sports, etc.
No prior experience with yoga is necessary. This is an excellent class
for people with injuries, and for anyone who would like to know their
body better.
@ The Breathing Project
15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
BMC & YOGA CLASS
wednesdays, 1:30 - 3 pm
no class: 10/7, 10/21, 10/28
class price: $20
This
weekly asana class is an opportunity to deeply embody
relationships
between our body systems, developmental patterns, embryology and yoga asana.
Open to all levels of movement.
@ Movements Afoot
49 W 27th St, Mezzanine B, NYC
Babies!
fridays, 11 am - 12 noon
no class: 10/9, 10/30
suggested 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: SPINE
fridays, 1 - 3:30 pm
no class: 10/9, 10/30
In
this 65-hour course we explore structure and movement
from an
experiential perspective, using touch, drawing, models,
movement
exercises and somatic experiences.
From September to December we will explore the bones, ligaments, and muscles of the spine, as well as its embryological origins, and the role of the spine in developmental patterns. There is time to sense, embody and
observe, and to discuss principles of alignment and therapeutic
applications.
You can take the whole course (fall semester is $500),
or drop in ($65), and your first class is free.
@ The Breathing Project
15 W 26 St, 10th Floor, NYC
A&K ASANA
fridays, 3:45 - 5 pm
no class: 10/9, 10/30
class price: $20
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®
2009-10 workshops:
October 2- 4, 2009
The Spine as a Limb #1: Head & Neck
December 4 - 6, 2009
The Spine as a Limb #2: Sacrum & Tail
January 29 - 31, 2010
Grounding:
Feet are Fundamental
Feb 12 - 14, 2010
Developmental Movement #1: Vertebral Patterns
Mar 12 - 14, 2010
Developmental Movement #2: Fluids & Pre-Vertebral Patterns
April 9 - 11, 2010
Creating Movement:
The Muscular System
April 30 - May 2, 2010
Organizing Movement:
PNF Patterns
June 25 - 27, 2010
Synthesis:
Asana Analysis #1
Oct 15 - 17, 2010
Synthesis:
Asana Analysis #2
Nov 19 - 21, 2010
Transitions:
Embodied Mind Part 2
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On the road
again . . .
October 6 - 12 I'll be in Tokyo, Japan teaching anatomy for Be Yoga's teacher training program, a workshop on Injury Prevention and a FEET are Fundamental workshop.
More information is at
Be Yoga Japan's website.
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embodied asana classes and workshops are based on sensing your body, breath and movement.
In them we practice bringing consciousness to each moment of moving.
In embodied asana classes you are invited to discover the anatomical, kinesthetic and energetic relationships
in the body, and between
the body and breath that are at the heart of a somatic practice.
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Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in NYC:
Embryological Foundations of Movement
Nov 17 - 23, 2009
This workshop is for movers, dancers, yoga
practitioners, and those from other body-mind
disciplines interested in unraveling the mystery
of embryological development as it relates to
movement, mind, and spirit.
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Gil Hedley's
Six Day Intensive Human Dissection
Workshop:
In Newark, NJ
May 3 - 8, 2010
There are still spaces in this workshop, but they fill up quickly - more information at www.somanautics.com
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BMC & YOGA: Embodied Anatomy Program
with Amy Matthews and Roxlyn Moret
October 2009 - December 2010
New York City
This program applies key principles of each of the body systems in
relation to the practice of yoga. Courses explore asana through
the direct experience of our own body systems, tissues and cells.
Embodied Anatomy opens a door to the transformative aspects of yoga and moves beyond a formulaic, external approach and into the
subtleties of our inner vinyasa.
Courses are offered in New York in three
day segments. No previous experience with BMC is required, and beginners at yoga are welcome!
October 24 - 26, 2009 Skeletal System: Lower Limbs
November 14 - 16, 2009 Skeletal System: Upper Limbs
December 12 - 14, 2009 Skeletal System: Axial Spine
weekend schedule:
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
9:30 am - 5 pm
for
more information and to register.
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about Amy Matthews:
Amy Matthews (CMA, IDME, BMC Practitioner,
RSMT/RSME) has been teaching movement since
1994. She is a
Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, an
Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a yoga therapist and yoga teacher.
Amy
co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling Yoga Anatomy
(published by Human Kinetics). Together Amy and Leslie lead The Breathing
Project's Advanced Studies Program.
She
co-teaches the BMC & Yoga programs in NYC and Berkeley, CA
for the School for Body-Mind Centering®, and was on the faculty of the
Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for 10 years. She has taught embodied anatomy and movement
workshops for programs in New York, Philadelphia, Florida, Nebraska, and
Berkeley, CA in the USA, and internationally in Canada, Israel, Ireland,
England, Slovakia, Switzerland and Japan.
Amy also works
privately as a yoga teacher and movement therapist, integrating Laban Movement
Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering® and
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF).
Amy is certified as
a yoga teacher by Yoga Union and Heart of Yoga, 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 has been
registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga
Teacher).
Amy has
participated several times in Gil Hedley's dissection workshops, and studied
kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd, and BMC™ with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She
has studied yoga with Alison West, Mark Whitwell, Genny Kapular and Kevin
Gardiner, and full-contact 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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