Upright Wisdom
Thursdays, January 22 - March 12, 12:00 PM-1:15 PM ET*
A series of eight gentle Feldenkrais classes designed to help you improve your posture, reduce pain, and restore your body's ability to be comfortably upright, taught by renowned Feldenkrais Teacher & Trainer, David Zemach-Bersin.
Try Class One!
These floor-based lessons will help you to:
Enjoy greater comfort and ease in all your activities
Reduce postural asymmetries at their source
Improve your body's uprightness and anti-gravitational support
Reduce tension in your neck, shoulders, hips, and back
Improve your breathing & balance
Feldenkrais lessons are for everyone and can make a difference right away! No prior experience needed. Register now!
We're each coordinated in our own individual way. Our muscular, skeletal, and neurological organization is a reflection of our unique development and experiences. Some of our most important patterns are formed in infancy, during 'tummy time.' During this critical period, our brain learns to orient our head and neck in space, coordinate our eyes, and organize our muscles in response to gravity, enabling us to maintain an upright posture. The patterns that we establish while lying on our belly make crawling, standing, and walking possible, and become the foundation of our upright future.
"Feldenkrais lessons done while lying in a prone position can bring about extraordinary results and help you to regain access to your body’s upright, gravitational wisdom."
-David Zemach-Bersin
However, from the start, we form biases and asymmetries, including, for example, a preference to turn towards one side more than the other. Inconsequential to begin with, such patterns tend to become more pronounced over time and can cause a variety of problems with our posture, joint health, and mobility.
This series will help to make your most ingrained habits flexible and amenable to change. It features six gentle, floor-based lessons designed to provide you with an opportunity to experience the remarkable therapeutic potential of practicing Feldenkrais lessons in a prone position. Perfect for anyone seeking relief from aches and pains, these lessons will help you release long-held tensions, allowing you to engage in all your upright activities with greater comfort, flexibility, intelligence, and ease.
Some of the lessons in this series will be done while lying on the stomach. No worries! You'll be able to use all the extra padding (pillows and blankets) you like. We are committed to your success and comfort. Find out more. With the right kind of cushioning, you can be comfortable lying on your stomach. Register now!
Raz Ori, Teacher and Trainer of the Feldenkrais Method, is the Educational Director of the Feldenkrais Training Programs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Palermo, Sicily. Raz is also a guest Trainer for training programs in Germany, Italy, France and the UK. He graduated in 2001 from a Feldenkrais Professional Training Program and trained for two more years with Yochanan Rywerant, one of Dr. Feldenkrais’ first students.
Raz runs The Ramat-Aviv Feldenkrais Center, where he teaches Awareness Through Movement classes and gives individual Functional Integration lessons. Raz gained clinical experience working for fifteen years at Clalit Integrative Medicine. He has also worked at the Sheba Medical Center with disabled war veterans suffering from chronic pain, phantom limb pain, PTSD, and head injuries. Raz is also a certified JKA practitioner working with special needs children.
Register by January 12 & Save $50
What You'll Receive
Scholarships & Discounts
*During this course, the US moves into Daylight Savings Time on March 8. If you live outside the US, you will be joining us one hour earlier than usual for the final class. I.e, if you live in the UK, you will join us at 4 PM instead of 5 PM.
