In this advanced workshop with David Zemach-Bersin, you will learn how to communicate with the older, lower, and more reflexive parts of the brain in order to reorganize essential aspects of posture, movement, and action.
This approach is uniquely potent because the movements of the eyes, mouth, and tongue have profound functional relationships with the movements of our spine and the organization of our musculature, with roots in our evolutionary history. These primitive dynamics and base action patterns existed long before homo sapiens appeared - yet continue to be present in our brain today, and are vital to our development, organization, ease of movement, and well-being.
The workshop includes Awareness Through Movement lessons to help you restore your 'primordial connections' and Functional Integration examples to potentiate your work as a Feldenkrais Practitioner. David presents a set of original Awareness Through Movement lessons to help you sense and differentiate the movement of one vertebra from another, and restore your capacity for important primordial or propulsive movements.
"I’ve been a Feldenkrais Practitioner for twenty years. Since I attended your advanced training on Primordial Connections, I've felt fabulous! I’m much calmer, more focused, and feeling more confident."
~Marjorie Levine
13.5+ hour program includes:
- Five Awareness Through Movement lessons
- Four Functional Integration demostrations
- Five Question & Answer sessions
- Two Anatomy presentations
- One lecture
- Lifetime access to recordings
- Option to download
Feldenkrais Access presented this workshop September 4-6, 2020.
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About David
Feldenkrais Trainer David Zemach-Bersin met Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in 1973 and studied with him for ten years in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. David also studied extensively with Gaby Yaron and Yochanon Rywerant. He has maintained a Functional Integration practice since 1977 and is recognized for his contribution to strengthening Dr. Feldenkrais’s legacy. A graduate of UC Berkeley with post-graduate work in physiological psychology, David has created numerous audio and video programs and is the co-autor of RELAXERCISE (HarperCollins). He is a past President of FGNA and co-directed the Feldenkrais Institute of New York and Feldenkrais Resources. David has directed and served as the Lead Teacher in sixteen Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs. He has been developing and teaching live-online and on-demand programs for Feldenkrais Teachers and the public online since 2020 as the Director of Feldenkrais Access. He lives with his family in the Farmington Valley of Connecticut.
