Spend a week or two with Amy and Leslie exploring ways to understand your habits of breath and movement, and finding pathways to change those habits - these workshops will challenge your mind and body to observe, reflect, integrate and transform.
AUGUST 9 - 13, 2010
WITH AMY MATTHEWS
Organizing Movement:
Patterns & Principles of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation is a therapeutic approach that uses 3-dimensional movement patterns, muscle reflexes and the proprioceptors ("self-sensors") of the nervous system to re-pattern our movement habits. The spiraling movements of these patterns invite our muscles to be active at both their longest and shortest working length, and safely illuminates all the different choices available in each joint.
This workshop is for anyone interested in discovering their own movement habits and/or working with others to find a wider range of choices. In this 5 day workshop we will explore these spiral pathways through the bones, joints and muscles, and the role of resistance in increasing our awareness - which underlies our ability to change.
DATES: August 9- 13, 2010 (Monday - Friday)
TIMES: Mon/Wed/Fri: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday and Thursday: 9:30am- 5:00 pm and 6:30 - 8:30pm (evening times
optional)
COST: $950
TO REGISTER: email register@breathingproject.org
AUGUST 16 - 20,
2010
WITH LESLIE KAMINOFF
Untying, Uniting the Breath: a Multi-Modal Immersion
The key to utilizing the power of our breath is in recognizing and untying the "knots" that obstruct the pathways through which it flows in our system. This is accomplished by uniting the forces of inhaling and exhaling in their wave-like motions through our body.
This week-long immersion is geared towards yoga practitioners and teachers, movement and fitness professionals, hands-on practitioners and voice/performance artists. Drawing from elements both unique and common to all these disciplines, Leslie will lead participants on a multi-dimensional, ever-deepening exploration of their breathing bodies that will leave us feeling freer, clearer and more integrated with our emotions.
There is a registration limit on this immersion, and only participants who are willing to undertake a challenging, transformational process are encouraged to apply. There will be a $50 materials fee to cover the cost of special props that you will keep at the end of the immersion.
DATES: August 16- 20, 2010 (Monday - Friday)
TIMES: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm and 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
COST: $950
TO REGISTER: email register@breathingproject.org
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 teaches
on the BMC & Yoga programs in Berkeley, CA and NYC 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, Berkeley, and Nebraska, and
internationally in Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, England, Israel, Slovakia and
Japan.
Amy
co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling Yoga Anatomy, and
together Amy and Leslie lead The Breathing Project's Advanced Studies Program.
Amy also works privately as a movement therapist and yoga teacher.
Amy
has studied with a range of inspiring teachers: dissection workshops with Gil
Hedley, neuro-muscular reeducation with Irene Dowd, Body-Mind Centering with
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, full-contact karate with Michelle Gay, and yoga with
Alison West, Mark Whitwell, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner.
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