Free Yourself from Repetitive Stress Injury - A Feldenkrais Method® workshop Aug. 11, at the Reno Buddhist Center

MUSICIANS, ARTISTS, MASSAGE THERAPISTS, ESTHETICIANS, DENTAL HYGIENISTS, PEOPLE WHO FISH, PADDLE, PLAY SPORTS, WORK AT COMPUTERS, GARDENERS, CRAFTERS - This is for you!

A very special Feldenkrais collaboration presented by Carole Bucher, BA, GCFP and Anne Ristorcelli, MM, GCFP

  
If repetitive movement in your job or doing what you love causes you pain or down time, this workshop is for you:
Few people know how to clearly differentiate or experience what their movement patterns are, much less make specific, substantive modifications or changes. One can, however, learn to become significantly more self-aware of tensions, characteristic mannerisms and movement patterns in the body. This increased awareness can help you make intelligent, appropriate and lasting movement modifications which are likely to improve your performance while relieving pain, re-aligning and refining how you use your body, and increasing stability and efficiency. Please Join us on Sunday, August 11. Preregistration required. For ease, use the contact form above right to register. 

"FREE YOURSELF FROM REPETITIVE STRESS AND MOTION INJURY"

with the Feldenkrais Method®

Learn to:

     • Increase your self- and body awareness; work and play with more comfort, grace, efficiency, and use an appropriate level of force in movement.

    • Find better alignment and posture to support and bring ease to your daily repetitive movements.

    • Recognize and relieve chronic tension and over-use before they become problems.

WHEN: SUNDAY, August 11, 11:30am to 3:00pm

WHERE: Reno Buddhist Center, 820 Plumas at Taylor streets, Reno.
COST: need-based sliding scale, $35-55. Preregistration required. Checks/cash only.
BRING: a blanket or yoga mat, and medium sized towel, socks, water and something to eat during a half hour lunch break. Anything else you need to be comfortable.

For preregistration and more information contact
Carole at 775-240-7882 or Carole@renofeldenkrais.com,
or Anne at 775-450-3025 or ristorcellifeldenkrais@gmail.com.

RenoFeldenkrais.blogstop.com and ristorcellifeldenkrais.com

Summer update, note for horse lovers, cute hieroglyphics!

Like  Tweet  Pin  +1  in   Dear students and friends, Just a brief note to update you on classes and give you a little encouragement to be more proactive and playful with your health and wellbeing. The payoff is huge and you'll move better, reduce pain and regain vitality! Taking as few as 3-5 classes will give you a good sense of how you much better you feel after and how you can apply what you learn to all of your other favorite summer and sporting activities. Being more alive and graceful (not to mention balanced and comfortable) are possibilities for everyone, at every age. And you don't have to go to Greece to find out how! (Please be sure to read the above cartoon if this doesn't make sense to you!) But its true, vitality and grace are two of the clear benefits of taking Feldenkrais classes. Summer classes tend to be a bit smaller, a little more fun and relaxed than other times, with shorter somewhat different lessons. Summer is a good time to explore classes, especially if you are new or if you've been procrastinating about getting started on a new fitness program. Here is your chance to start sensibly. And you have nothing to lose! More about our new location! On the topic of comfort, our lovely and quiet new studio at the Gerber Medical Clinic, 1225 Westfield (for TUES and SAT classes) has a wonderful and very responsive AC system, a great relief during our hot Northern Nevada summers. The temperature is always comfortable, and the atmosphere is always conducive to learning and self discovery. The new studio is located between Foster and California, just off Booth St. near Reno High School. Come up the stairs using the East entrance, or use the elevator from the West entrance. The big bonus on SATURDAY is that you can walk over to the Farmers Market at the CVS shopping center after the 10 am class, and before you head home! Our THURS our ongoing 5 pm Reno Buddhist Ctr. class continues as before. The cost for classes remains the same: $15 drop-in, 10-class card for $120, or you may use the need-based sliding scale. The full schedule is at the top of this page. And last, a special tip for riders: The effects of your balance and body-awareness on your horse: Lots of folks know this, but many do not. If you love your horse or horses in general and you ride, this is a really important concept to understand. Your body awareness is critical to their comfort and support. Horses will instinctively go to great lengths to balance you— but it is much kinder and better that you sense what’s going on in your own body, feel your skeleton and learn to balance yourself efficiently. Feldenkrais makes it easy to do this. You become the stable, comfortable riding partner your horse wants and deserves, plugged in and safely organized. Your horse will certainly appreciate this extra support and help. Our new class location, TUES 12:30 and SAT 10 am. Turn left and left at the top of the stairs and enter thru the red trimmed doors! Please contact me if you want to talk about your situation privately, or want to learn more about Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® classes and/or one-on-one Functional Integration sessions. Please visit my website for testimonials from students and clients about both of these. Wishing you a wonderful, warm and happy summer. I hope to see you soon. Best regards,  Carole Carole Bucher, BA, is a Guild-Certified Feldenkrais practitioner/teacher and owner of Reno Feldenkrais Integrative Movement and teaching ongoing Feldenkrais classes in Reno and Northern NV, since 2009.

Freeing and organizing the whole body with a flexible chest - this week's lesson

One more opportunity to take this particularly wonderful lesson! Come tomorrow (Saturday July 13) at 10 am, upstairs at the Gerber Medical Clinic, 1225 Westfield Ave., near Reno High School.  Use the East entrance near Booth St. 

This 'whole body' lesson is part of the 'Flexible Chest' series by San Francisco Feldy Arlyn Zones, who was, by the way, the Educational Director in my Feldenkrais training. the lesson is entitled 'Circles with the Knees'.  

I chose the lesson because it is an excellent way to get all your parts moving in preparation for the wonderful wonderful 'walking backward' lesson that I will be teaching next week, TUES-SAT.  

This week's lesson focuses on moving the feet, ankles, knees, and hips (and upper body as well) in sitting, and then doing something related and similar, but different, as you lie on your stomach.  The overall effect is indeed a reorganization of the whole body.  

I hope you can join us tomorrow. If you are coming to your first class, please contact me (use the contact form on this page) and come 15 minutes early.  I will send you the class handout tonight. 

Meanwhile, here is a tiny snippet of the lesson. 

Best regards, 
Carole 

Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® class + farmers' market on Saturdays!

We had such a delightful class this 4th of July weekend Saturday. The cool thing about Saturday is the large, adjacent farmers' market in the CVS Shopping Center off California and Booth. Very easy and agreeable to combine the two healthy events!

Because it was a holiday week, I experimented with a different concept. I gave 4 short lessons, oriented to improving range of movement and comfort in the hip, leg, knee, ankle and foot, including one squat exploration.

All lessons (true in every Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement class, of course) are accessible/appropriate to and for everyone, because everyone does only what they can easily do. This includes your decision to do it in your imagination, if that is what feels right to you.

This range of possibility and exploration are SELF-discovery -- this updates your brain map with real-time data and it establishes the pathway to your self-awareness and movement improvement. AND it also opens doors to physical, mental and emotional flow and freedom, creativity and better relationship with the world around you.

Everyone is welcome in any class. You don't need to be a Gerber patient on TUES and SAT, nor do you need to be a member of the Buddhist community on Thurs. Just kindly contact me first to connect and talk, if you wish, and to get the class handout.

You can use the contact form on my website most easily.

Hope to see you soon!