2010 Class Descriptions

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PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM OF BIOSOMATICS

This presentation will involve:

Learning what BioSomatics is and it’s application for self and others.
Creating movement programs for learning our way out of pain and releasing habitual tensions.
The ability to pay attention to sensation-based kinesthetic activity rather than goal-oriented exercise.
Comprehensive theory on how we pay attention has robust effects on the entire nervous system.
Learning to operate the central nervous system the way it was designed through movement and learning theory.
Neurological coordination patterns.

LEVEL ONE - THREE PART- CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
REJUVENATION OF SPINE
UNSHACKLING OF NECK AND SHOULDERS
AGILITY OF HIPS

ABOUT THE COURSES:
This certification program enables mastery of a portion of sensory-motor education. This platform of knowledge creatively directs the awareness of spine, shoulders and hips in altering habitual patterns. The program’s design consists of movement, hands-on and the quality of listening and clarification. The two-fold wealth of this education is that your learning occurs in the quiet of your inner work and the opportunity to become the sensitive witness to the hidden tones of your expression.
ENVELOPED IN THE SENSORY-MOTOR EDUCATION IS:

Understanding and resolution of sensory-motor amnesia by a means of dialogue with imagery, movement and touch.
The ability to pay attention to sensation-based kinesthetic activity rather than goal-oriented exercise.
Creating movement programs for learning our way out of pain, releasing habitual tensions in spine and joints.
The kinesthetic way of moving that contributes to the health of synovial joints.
Practice and demonstration in teaching movement programs.

This three-seminar, three-day certification program is the minimum time to complete the level one training with the depth it needs. Please note upon completion you will have assimilated the information, recovered more of your personal sensory-motor awareness and feel confident in carrying forth this knowledge.

RENEGOTIATING TRAUMA- BALANCED FEET, RE-EDUCATION OF SCOLIOTIC CURVE

A total body approach must be utilized when treating scoliosis in order to retrain every aspect of this condition. This four phase program is a vital and necessary part of expediting and maintaining the correction of the scoliotic curve.

Phase I: Developmental. Retraining the muscle patterns to relax.
Phase II: Functional. Retraining the muscle atrophy that can result from a long term back pattern.
Phase III: Strengthening. Reawakening the muscle strength to insure permanent curve stability.
Phase IV: Personality of Scoliosis. The psychological and emotional relationship to one’s midline.

In addition, this seminar covers a portion of infancy developmental motor learning, as well as, movements and hands-on that support and retrain balanced feet and flexible ankles. This is very important in the steps of progression that address the as above so below principal

BIOSOMATIC APPROACH – RELEASE OF JAW AND EYE TENSION

The movement of the eye organized the body. . .jaw, instinctive and reflexive responses.

The jaws connection to emotions
The mouth introduces us to the part with which we begin to know the outside world
How to challenge a pattern of tension

MASTERY OF TEACHING – BIOSOMATIC APPROACH

The role of teaching in movement education is immensely important, since what is needed is skillful coaching. What is necessary to increase proficiency levels:

Knowing how to arrive at a more complete understanding of your personal self until a breakthrough occurs and a new form or way of being is shaped into your teaching.
Seeing what is present in the movement and what is absent or underdeveloped.
Ability to reflect back to the students what is happening and what is possible, what is there and what is missing.
Communicating and choosing what movement to teach in reawakening more health.
Mirroring using words or movement for enlarging the possibilities of understanding feelings that become congruent with action.

DANCE OF BONE, BREATH AND GESTURE
TRANSFORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF OUR EXPERIENCE AS A BODY

In this seminar,we work with the movement of health as a metaphor from an artistic point of view, actively using the principles of creativity and art making. (movement, writing, dialogue, art).Through the act of enlivening and manifesting the creative self, all our different parts bone, breath and gesture find a balanced relationship with one another.

We will pursue:

Understanding movement in relation to possible physical and psychological messages.
Building a vocabulary to help us link movement to emotional states, to images, and to the way of living our life stories, to the myth that is being expressed.
Resources that assist in identifying, reflecting on and changing our conditioning.
Making the unconscious conscious.
“Letting go” of old patterns by bringing awareness to the unknown or blind spots.
Moving from internal impulses.
Finding your Signature in Motion.
When Movement changes so does the psychologically. As our body posture changes, so does our posture in life.

“the body is the personality on the physical level and movement is the personality made visible”
Mary Whitehouse, Dancer/Choreographer

THE AWAKENED HUMAN AND THE HORSE
TRAINING THE FUNCTIONAL AWARENESS OF THE RIDER, WHICH THEN BECOMES THE GIFT YOU GIVE TO THE HORSE

Being a presence that does not disturb the horse's balance
Gaining direct self knowledge to retain habituations
Sensory-motor learning to enliven one's motor awareness
Being in the heart of listening into self and the horse's motion
Restoration of comfort and health for horse and rider

BIOSOMATIC MOVEMENT CLASSES

The Missing Link in Fitness

Educating the body by non-strenuous movement to resolve stiffness, soreness, and restricted range of movement. These workshops are for everyone interested in acquiring knowledge to self-directtheir health.

Releasing habitual tensions in spine and joints.

Synovial Joints the most prevalent type of joints in the body. Found mostly in the limbs and along the back of the spine. This somatic way of moving spinning, rolling and gliding contribute to the health of these joints. When joints become stiff and painful this pain may be mistaken for arthritic pain. When in fact movement could alleviate it. Biosomatics is a step towards taking our healing back into our hands. It is an empowering approach to movement utilizing a composite of techniques to retrain the messages sent from the brain to the body. Biosomatics is a means to a more direct self-knowledge of our autonomy in refining how we move, discerning what will work best and reacquainting us with our inherent capacity to reamain agile. This is a process of reeducating adult neuro-motor functioning resulting in a means to self-adjust tension, change postural patterns and help us gain freedom from the unconscious habits of how we use ourselves.

BIOSOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE TRAINING

Required to have taken Level One, Scoliotic Re-Education, Releasing Jaw and Eye Tension, Mastery of Teaching