Weekly classes are available on a drop-in basis.  In the ATM/BFL classes I often develop a functional theme over the course of the month. 

Attendance throughout the month enhances the learning process by revisiting familiar elements as you carry forth to the next level.

Monday: no classes Tuesday: no classes Wednesday: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® & Bones for Life® Lessons Thursday: 6:00-7:00 p.m. FeldyYOGA *No class Feb. 23, Mar. 1 Friday: 10:00-11:00 a.m. FeldyMAT *No class Feb. 24, Mar. 2	Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula 4590 Carmel Valley Road Carmel, CA 93923 Classes are held in the free standing Outcalt Chapel. View Larger Map

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These classes draw upon the wealth of Moshe' Feldenkrais' Awarenesss Through Movement (ATM) lessons and the continuing evolutionary work of Ruthy Alon's Bones for Life (BFL). 

Using verbal guidance each lesson is constructed to evoke more organized movement. In progressive, gentle sequence you gradually clarify inefficient patterns that cause strain and resistance. 

The cues given will guide you deep into your unique circumstance to unwind years of habitual holding patterns while simultaneously clarifying new options for improved function.  You'll refine your sense of how to move pleasurably and well. You'll develop fundamental self care that will shift you from pain to pleasure to power using your daily movements.  We use the body and movement to change how the brain has patterned itself over a lifetime.
 
Basically when it hurts, you're doing something wrong. Finding the path of movement that will allow your parts to talk to one another allows a synchronicity, a flow to happen.  
These lessons teach you to find that flow.

Your flow.

Pains go away, flexibility returns, calm vitality reawakens and, most importantly, you remember how to move intelligently. Your daily function becomes the pleasurable path to inevitable improvement.

'Make the impossible possible, the difficult easy, and the easy elegant." ~Moshe' Feldenkrais

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Exercise Smarter, NOT Harder!

What is it?

This Feldy/MAT class will work to strengthen your core while keeping a fine-tuned eye on correct rehab functioning.  This class combines Feldenkrais^® movement lessons with MAT Pilates along with elements of a variety of somatic disciplines I’ve learned throughout my years of practice in order to create a class that evokes greater stamina without re-injury.

Who can benefit?

Those who:
- want greater core strength
- have been on the roller coaster of rehab/reinjury
- are negatively challenged by their traditional workout routine
- are ready to listen to their body at a more refined level in order to retrain
..optimal healthy function

We'll replace the ideas of  "powering through it" or "no pain, no gain!" with somatic intelligence. Exercise that combines the power of optimal alignment while honoring your subjective organization will evoke structural integrity, improved alignment and balance. Exercising in this manner also enables natural strength and considerable stamina. These lessons will underpin your daily function by creating improved ability to move well in your everyday function to sustain your progress.

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Yoga's asanas (yogic postures) meet the magic of Feldenkrais.

Come celebrate the truth: No two bodies move in the same way and no two beings possess the same
histories or exact abilities.

Let's leave the quest for the perfect yoga posture based on a cookie cutter mentality of how it's "supposed to look."

Enter a realm of pleasurable yoga by evoking your own movement intelligence that follows the wisdom of YOUR unique patterning. 

This class will open pathways to the ancient asanas while keeping a clear focus on listening to your own body's messages that enable the benefits of yoga to be had while avoiding strain or injury!

Bring your own yoga mat if you have one. A limited number of mats are available at class.

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Beginners Introductory Rate: .......$5 for 1st Class  Drop-In Rate: .......$15 for any Single Class (not BFL series)   Monthly Class Card Rate: (good for 30 days from purchase date) $12 per class  (4 class minimum) Choose class option Introductory Class (1st time only) $5.00 Single Class $15.00 Monthly Card Rate (4 class miniumum) $12.00 Work trades, payment plans available for those in need.

All classes offered are first and foremost geared toward re-patterning your nervous system so that your normal movements improve your structural alignment and daily function that will continue day and night.The most important focus is for you to listen to you!  These lessons guide you to a higher level of comfort, strength and function by refining your sensitivity: the key to discovering optimal function. Honoring your comfort level and not succumbing to ideas of following others or doing what you "should" do  or "used to do when...." will enable you to engage playfully with the interesting challenges of a typical lesson. The power of this work is that improvement is discovered through pleasurable pathways. So, even though you are in a class with others, it really is all about you and no one else.   Enjoy coming home to yourself.

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