This advanced training workshop with Raz Ori focuses on new ways to use instability to access neuroplastic change in Functional Integration. It will give you new perspectives and valuable skills to use in your private practice. Raz has developed an exciting approach that involves using a soft, inflatable ball to enhance somatic dialogue and facilitate sensory learning. The ball aides and supports the Practitioner, while also making it easier for the student's nervous system to notice muscular effort and differences in quality of movement and to recognize opportunities for improved action.
Learn how to use an inflatable ball in Functional Integration in order to:
- Overcome the resistance of weight and friction
• Improve your self-organization, dexterity, and kinesthetic acuity. - Attract the nervous system's attention, offer non-habitual conditions, and circumvent the reinforcement of defensive patterns.
- Introduce new kinesthetic qualities that the nervous system can replicate and integrate.
This workshop includes both Alexander Yanai Awareness Through Movement lessons and lessons created by Raz specifically for the workshop.
"I found this workshop to be exceptional. I very much appreciated how focused Raz was on explaining what he was doing and the connections he was making. I found the transfer of sensory experience and connections from the ATM to the FI to be very informative."
-Program Participant
EQUIPMENT NEEDED: You will need two inflatable 10-inch balls!
12.5 hour program includes:
- Seven Awareness Through Movement lessons
- Ten Functional Integration demonstrations
- Nine Question & Answer sessions
- Lifetime access to recordings
- Option to download recordings
Feldenkrais Access presented this workshop April 16-18, 2021.
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About Raz
Raz Ori, Practitioner 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 Israel, Germany, Italy, France and the UK. He graduated in 2001 from the Tel-Aviv 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 15 years at Clalit Integrative Medicine, part of Israel’s largest public health provider. 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. He teaches advanced trainings and conducts online mentoring groups. Raz lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and children.
