Posture matters: Change Your Posture, Change Your Mood!
An 8 Lesson Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert
Everyone’s posture, or how they “use” themselves, isn’t always optimal, with the help of the Feldenkrais method, your postural habits can improve to make everyday movements more enjoyable and easy. Your posture, or, how you navigate being upright with gravity, profoundly affects not only your physical comfort, but your overall health and emotions too.
With awareness, specificity, and practice, we will free the muscles of the neck, shoulders, spine, and face. As one moves towards more freedom in the neck, lower back, and jaw, one also moves towards a more easy, elegant, and upright posture. Our aim is not a perfect posture, but a place of less tension and conflict in the body where our posture is fluid, not rigid.
“The increase of collapsed sitting and walking–from sitting in front of our computer to looking down at our smartphones–may very much have an effect on the rise of depression in recent years. Emotions and thoughts affect our posture and energy levels; conversely, posture and energy affect our emotions and thoughts.” - Powerful Links Between Posture and Mood
None of us are immune to the aches and pains in the spine and neck due to modern day hazards, including long hours looking down at phone and computer screens.
“Although we each have a fantastic skeleton and musculature designed to give us flexible support and hold us upright against the pull of gravity, we frequently develop postural habits that challenge our skeletal structure's effectiveness and cause muscular tension inflammation, and a gradual deterioration of our joints.” - Feldenkrais Trainer David Zemach- Bersin”
Developing skills that take advantage of the amazing human skeleton and learning to move closer to an optimal posture is a powerful tool for improving confidence in the inner environment of the body and decreasing pain from muscular tension and imflammation.
The human brain is known for it’s ability to adapt and change in any situation. These lessons will prompt the brain to support freedom of movement and a healthy effortless upright posture. The ultimate goal is efficiency, a body that can move in any direction, and a body that can find efficient comfortable solutions to modern day stressors.
As your posture improves, you may feel that your attitude and emotional state also improve, and you can access new parts of yourself or parts which have been long forgotten.
Each lesson will relieve the body of old, self-limiting postural habits that hold you back. Lessons will be done in various positions including, sitting, standing, back lying, side lying, and front lying.
$175 for the 8 week series.
Pay-as-able available for this series.
For full scholarship, please inquire directly with Sarah.
What is included in the series?
Movement: This series will include eight lessons in total, each taught twice a week.
Educational Talks:
• Pre lesson Anatomy Lessons
• The philosophical framework for ATM
Connection:
• 16 livestream classes to practice these lessons
• Q & A time after the class to ask your questions, connect with the other students, and discuss the method and tools we are learning about
• Optional 10 minute consultation with Sarah during the 2 month series
• Email support
Ways to keep practicing:
• Recordings automatically available (48 hrs after each live class) on member page
• Stream recordings indefinitely
• Option to download recordings
Live classes and recordings will be accessed via the BODY MATTER studio platform using Marvelous software. Once you have purchased the series, you will have access to the livestream classes and recordings.
How to use the Marvelous software for livestream and recorded classes.
Student experiences after Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons:
“After the lesson I not only felt taller and lighter, but I felt inside my body a more optimistic outlook.”
”I had a moment where I was feeling being propelled by my pelvis and it was so distinct. Everything felt easier, just less effort. And I was shocked when I got to standing! It just felt like gravity in the room was different. Because that is always difficult and it was actually kind of easy in a way.”
”Wonderful lesson! My scapulae were lower afterwards and my neck longer from mid-sternum on up through throat into head!”
”I feel like I want to dance after that”
”After this lesson I feel super mobile inside and like I could do anything, like the lines and the mobility can stay.”
”I especially like what you said at the beginning, to allow us to let go of expectations and to drop into a beginner’s mind. I’ve done enough Feldenkrais now that I know I am going to be prompted to try to feel certain things. But these ideas of being curious and letting things happen, and letting go of some control… Wow, I am always surprised at how much I need this every time. I appreciate these classes so much.””