Feldenkrais classes this week: A 40 sec video of moving the distal with the proximal -- from the central parts of oneself!

Do you want to feel lighter, more open, and breathe better? 

In class this week, this lovely lesson teaches how to invite the entire body to support and move the shoulders, arms, hands, especially initiating movement from the chest, back and pelvis. We decrease pain, tension and tightness, while increasing flexibility and range of movement. As an extra benefit of the lesson, the ribs and chest open and expand, breathing gets much deeper, easier and more comfortable. It is a wonderful lesson and useful for improving quality of movement and life as well as post-surgery or post illness. It will also help your golf game. 

In the video, you can catch a glimpse of how each little movement in a slightly different direction changes the conversation through the body. This is a fascinating lesson, when done very small and slowly, feeling and learning to use arms in a new way. Then beginning to use the chest and pelvis -- to move from a completely different part of oneself -- to move the arms. The movement shifts from very distal to very proximal and central, becoming more powerful and adaptive, and beautifully balanced. This is very pain relieving, restorative and heart opening. 

If you'd like more information about Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® classes or individual Functional Integration® sessions, or to discuss related health questions, please use the contact form at the top right of this page. 

Pelvic Clock -- Awareness Through Movement classes this week.

Learn how the movement of your pelvis impacts comfort and ease of movement through the whole body.

The Classic Pelvic Clock lesson this week. We are utilizing Dr. Feldenkrais' amazing invention of movement of the pelvis around the face of a clock to reveal and improve movement in areas of the body which are out of alignment or not well-organized.


And as we explore in this way, movement improves everywhere, initiating from the pelvis and its contiguous parts, including the spine.


Next classes are 5 pm tonight at the Reno Buddhist Center, Hiroma Hall, enter from Taylor. 10 am at 250 Bell St., Saturday. Contact me for info and come 15 mins early if you are coming to your first class.


You can also contact me using the form at the top right of the page.

Looking forward to hearing from you!  With best wishes, Carole 

Want to make the difficult possible and comfortable? Awareness Through Movement

Increasing the comfort and range of movement in hips, feet, toes, ankles and shoulders, AND elongating the spine - photo from last week's (9/8/18) class.

Nearly every lesson we do in a Feldenkrais class, workshop or clinic includes surprising physical and mental improvements because of the very specific way Dr. Feldenkrais created each lesson. And because we are learning to use our 'feeling and sensation' to find movement in a way that actually works with our bodies rather than pushing through or ignoring our movement limitations. Each lesson is structured so that our movement intelligence increases as we continue through a lesson.

This lesson is a great example of how this works, gently, safely and rather amazingly. It started by our separating out our toes from each other individually, which increased the feeling of width and length of the bones in our feet. So we began in a simple, child development sort of way, playing with our feet and creating awareness skeletally from the bottom up. 

We also awakened connections through the whole body, as we supported ourselves with one hand and arm, as we did the movements of toes, foot, ankle and leg with the other hand and arm.

We followed these movements up into the body, exploring many variations, extending the focus of the movement upward into the hip joints, through the knees and ankles.  Our hands, arms and shoulders participated more intentionally and intelligently. We played with movement in shoulders and elbows too. Lots of non-habitual, interesting movement.

We found balance, through the sit bones in the pelvis, as all parts of the movement lesson began to come together in a cohesive whole way -- we had a sense of shape, feeling of balance and counter balance, in space and on the ground.

The interesting surprise for many was the impact at the end of the lesson on our walking, our upright spines, and feeling of much better alignment and organization, pain relief and ease of movement.

Every lesson has this wholistic impact but also hidden benefits that differ from person to person because of our different history and anatomy.  

I hope you will join us soon and see what your surprises might be! Please use the contact form at the top right of this page to contact me easily and quickly if you have questions or want to find out more about classes and private sessions.

Best wishes, 

Carole 

Carole Bucher, BA, GCFP

Rolling, playing with toes, and deep core work to find balance and skeletal organization.

FEET, TOES, LEGS, BALANCE, and PELVIC CORE WORK.

 

A splendid Awareness Through Movement class this week that takes us back to childhood and forward into graceful, stable, well-organized movement. A new lesson from my practitioner's class (#401).


Tues noon-1:30, 250 Bell St. Thurs (beginners' class) 5-6:30 pm, Reno Buddhist Ctr., Sat 10-11:30 am, 250 Bell St. Contact me and come 15 mins early to your first class.

Waking Up Your Weekend -- from the inside out

Do you want a new approach to a few things? Or just about everything? Try Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® Classes and Functional Integration®.

The 10 am Saturday morning Feldenkrais class at 250 Bell St. in Reno is an interesting mix of people, young, older, very diverse backgrounds, professions. What we all share is our common interest in exploring and improving our movement patterns and habits; wellness; physical, mental and emotional possibilities; individual growth, consciousness and self-awareness. We use carefully designed movement sequences as the vehicle with which to study ourselves and these aspects of our lives. What is comfortable and easy? Or limited and difficult? Where do I lose track of myself? Where and how can I find a new approach to my limitations, but gently and mindfully?

This is the essence of meaningful learning and self-care. When this approach is embodied, there is virtually nothing that doesn't improve -- we are more alive, alert and balanced. More comfortable and aligned. We can even breathe better, because our ribs are freer, our diaphragm releases and working with our attention and sensation de-stresses our bodies and brings calm within.

If these ideas touch something authentic in you, I hope you will join us. You'll find out for yourself how much wisdom you have in your body when you wake it up with your brain and attention, how much better you can feel and move. I also teach classes TUES from noon-1:30 pm at 250 Bell St; and THURS from 5-6:30 pm at the Reno Buddhist Center, Plumas at Taylor (and of course SAT 10-11:30 am). I am a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and teacher. I did my 4-year Feldenkrais training in Berkeley, CA and teach the only ongoing Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement classes in Northern NV (since 2009).

Please use the form at the top right of my webpage to contact me for information about the Feldenkrais Method, for a class handout, for info about group or individual work or to discuss related questions. Meanwhile,

Happy weekend!
Carole
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