Sunday, February 7
9:30 am -12:30 pm & 2:00 - 5:00 pm
$60 per session or $110 for the full day
In
this workshop we will focus on the embryological development of the spine and midline
structures of the body. This exploration will begin with experiences from the first
days after conception, and will travel through the development of the digestive system and spinal cord to the
process by which the bones of the spine grow in relationship to the
discs.
Embryology
is the study of our development from conception until the eighth week
in utero: in
the first moments after conception, all our cells have the same
composition and structure - as they grown and reproduce, they gradually specialize into the tissues that make up the body's systems. By the end of eight weeks, the basic organization of the
systems of our body (digestive, nervous, muscular, skeletal, etc.) is
in place.
This
embryological process of differentiation is also a movement from fluid into structure,
and it happens in overlapping waves of change. These changes are
triggered by the cell's relationship to both space and time - when and
where the cell is will determine what kind of tissue it becomes. All of
our bodies have been through this process, and our fluids and cells hold
the memory of those changes. So when we are looking for the potential
for transformation and change, we can use the experiences of embryology
to support our explorations.
Space is limited, and registration
is essential:
please call 212 532 1512
or email
yogaunion@nyc.rr.com
Yoga
Union Backcare
32 W 28th Street, 4th Fl
New York, NY 10001
Amy Matthews CMA, BMC Practitioner, E-RYT, 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.
Originally a dancer
and choreographer, Amy co-teaches the BMC & Yoga programs in
NYC and in Berkeley, CA (with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen) 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 is certified as a
Yoga teacher by Yoga Union and Heart of Yoga, and as a Motherhand
Shiatsu practitioner. She studies Yoga with Alison West, Mark Whitwell,
Genny Kapuler and Kevin Gardiner, and full-contact karate with Sensei
Michelle Gay. Amy recently co-authored Yoga Anatomy with Leslie
Kaminoff, published by Human Kinetics and now in its fifth printing.
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