The Core of the Matter
December 6-7
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST
4:00 PM-9:00 PM GMT
5:00 PM-10:00 PM CET
6:00 PM-11:00 PM IST
A weekend workshop with Feldenkrais Teacher and Trainer Raz Ori, exploring the concept of ‘core’ from a Feldenkrais perspective. Raz will guide you in Feldenkrais lessons designed to promote the strength, coordination, and comfort of your core support system. You will find that true strength comes not from stiffness, but through a dynamic, intelligent coordination of your entire self in action. Register now!
You will learn how to:
Build power through clear skeletal connections, not muscular effort
Reorganize your torso for greater balance, flexibility, & ease
Improve coordination between your center & extremities
Reduce back pain by improving your functional support
Discover power through organized movement, not holding
Feldenkrais lessons are for everyone and can make a difference right away! No prior experience needed. Register now!
When physical fitness experts suggest that we ‘engage and strengthen our core’, they are referring to the central muscles of our torso, which stabilize and move our pelvis, lower back, and hips. But keeping our core muscles tight comes at a cost, and can lead to serious problems. Tightening, bracing, and contracting our core muscles -habitually- can cause chronic tension and pain in our back, neck, shoulders and ribs, as well as severely restricted breathing, and digestive issues.
"True strength comes not from stiffness, but through a dynamic, intelligent coordination of our entire self in action."
~ Raz Ori
In this weekend workshop, Feldenkrais Trainer Raz Ori will present a group of sensory-motor lessons designed to help you develop the strength, coordination, and comfort of your core support system from a Feldenkrais perspective. You will discover that better core function comes from mobility and coordination, not from gripping, bracing, or ‘holding,’ and you’ll learn how to sense and use your core in a way that supports your spine, reduces strain, and allows your whole self to move more freely.
Curious? Try this short exercise!
Whether you're familiar with the Feldenkrais Method or new to this approach, this workshop will allow you to experience a healthy, ‘functional core’ as an adaptable, dynamic relationship between your pelvis, spine, head, and limbs. It will help you to change old muscular patterns so you can move with greater clarity, power, and ease, and give you new ways to develop the health, comfort, and strength of your core. 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.
