Friday-Sunday July 27-29, 2007, 10am–5pm

• Year One San Francisco: More than a Beginning
  Dennis Leri
• Awareness Through Movement®–Waking Up the Self Organizing Function
  Olena Nitefor, MEd
• Freeing the Head and Neck
  Arlyn Zones

Year One San Francisco: More Than a Beginning
Dennis Leri

It’s all there in the transcripts and audio files of San Francisco Year One: little gems on every page, humor, stories, great lessons, a lot of profound Functional Integration® instruction, scientific explanations and answers to many questions, e.g., "Why do we almost always start Awareness Through Movement® lessons on the right side?" But there are also little oddities, provocative asides and a general sway to the training that bear closer study. I’ll bring my 30 years of practitioner and Trainer experience to aid in revisiting this amazing material. There will be Functional Integration explorations and Awareness Through Movement lessons.

Open to: TRAINEES AND PRACTITIONERS

Dennis Leri (1977) is a trainer and the educational director of the SemioPhysics Feldenkrais Training. He’s presented the Feldenkrais Method® in training programs, seminars and workshops worldwide. Dennis apprenticed with Moshe Feldenkrais in Tel Aviv, Israel. His style reflects training in Western and Eastern philosophy, psychology, martial arts and poetics.

Awareness Through Movement®–Waking Up the Self Organizing Function
Olena Nitefor

In AY#478 Moshe says "Do not try to push more, but at the points where it is difficult, do it more easily, a gentler movement, more slowly. Then, slowly it will organize itself." He does not say, "Do it more easily... Then, slowly you will realize how to organize it." In the contrast between these two statements lies the difference between self organization and self correction.

This workshop is devoted to Awareness Through Movement® lessons as an ongoing search of and for intelligence in the self organizing process. We will examine how attention, and action are utilized differently from an attitude of self correction or an attitude of self organization. The differences are subtle yet clear, and have far reaching implications, impacting the perennial question, "how long can these changes last?"

We will explore the many facets of ATM: experiential, functional, developmental, bio-mechanical, and illuminate learning strategies utilized for the development of the self organizing function. We will look at workshop design and reinvigorate your dedication to scrupulously resist self correction, and engage in the process of self organization for yourself and your students.

Please visit my web site, http://www.feldenkrais-method.ca/ . to get the full description of this workshop.

Open to: 3RD & 4TH YEAR TRAINEES AND PRACTITIONERS

Olena Nitefor, MEd (1987) has a background in anatomy, dance and education, and has taught anatomy in trainings since 1988. An active Assistant Trainer internationally since 1995, Olena has gathered various perspectives on the teaching of Moshe's work, both FI and ATM. For 9 years she has been teaching well-received advanced trainings in Europe. This is the fifth time she is teaching the Exclusively ATM workshop.

Freeing the Head and Neck
Arlyn Zones

The freedom of the head and neck is vitally important for our sense of orientation and equilibrium in the world. When the head and neck are free and the eyes are on the horizon all aspects of our functioning in gravity become easier.

In this pre-conference workshop, you will:

• Learn through Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® lessons how reconnecting the movement of the head, neck and eyes to chest, pelvis and spine can lead to dramatic improvement and change. Themes include: Differentiating the head from the neck; Relating the cardinal movements of the head and neck to C7, the chest and spine; and Influencing the head from the pelvis and sacrum.
• Learn how to create and teach a successful public workshop. (The second day of this pre-conference workshop will include a workshop for the public, on "Freeing the Head and Neck".)

Open to: PRACTITIONERS (DAY TWO IS OPEN TO PUBLIC)

Arlyn Zones, MA (1983) has taught workshops for health professionals, performing artists, and the general public for over 25 years, and has brought the Feldenkrais Method® into schools, hospitals and clinics. As a Trainer she has taught, and has directed her own programs internationally. Arlyn maintains a private practice working with infants, children and adults.