Regain, Maintain Lifelong Agility

Description

Regain, Maintain, LIFELONG AGILITY 
Work Smarter, not Harder

A Feldenkrais® Model
      15 CEs for LMTs   

IN-PERSON Seminars, [#20-219494]  [DL]   Live Online, Distance Learning #20-761877 [DL]

AGILITY means being able to move easily in any direction quickly and lightly. This requires good balance, a brain that senses whole body action, easy joints, and an even give and take between the flexors and extensors of all muscles working in synergistic patterns. 

How many of you think of yourself as a mover?  

How many see your patient or client as a mover?

Touch to Inform’s Regain, Maintain Lifelong Agility offers practical clinical strategies for Therapists, Coaches and Educators to support people with low back, spine, hip, and knee difficulties in bending, standing, and sitting so that they can have the ease to get down and up offer the floor.   Participants are guided to think about how the brain establishes patterns for action.  Most of the time, patterns are a good thing.  The truth is that they often interfere with rehabilitation. When patterns that happen at the unconscious level can be noticed, one can explore movements that can interrupt those patterns and help make shifts in the mobility of themselves as well as their clients — without trying. 

Therapists learn to improve their ability to view tension in others through personally experiencing their own agility improve. This ‘embodied learning’ is experienced through specific Feldenkrais’ Awareness through Movement® lessons, as well as partner collaboration and other activities. Participants learn to sense, in detail, how each action is performed and how variations in effort and path help create a new image for that action.

You will leave with the ability to: 

• Notice the patterns and work indirectly to a problem area.
• Illuminate space between all joints –and relationship for distribution of effort
• Interrupt habitual muscular holding patterns, and non-verbally suggest new options — supporting a change in one’s Brain Map 
• Develop skeletal support and improved balance and thus functional ability.
• Support clients in developing long term agility and health

Module 1:  Bending,  Getting to the floor

Module 2:  Rebuilding Brain maps for flexion — ankle, knees, hips, back

Module 3.  Rolling up from the Floor – ready for action

Module 4:  Safely rolling down 

Module 5  Integration – Bending and Moving,