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FGNA 2024 Conference Series - Sept 27 2024

                                            

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All dates and times are posted in US Pacific Standard Time.

Friday, September 27, 2024

Frederick Schjang | 8:00 am - 9:00 am PT

Ungluing the Lungs from a New Perspective

Join Frederick Schjang for a morning series of ATM lessons based on “Ungluing the Lungs.” Lessons will be done in both a seated and standing position with options for exploring the lessons lying down.

Equipment needed: a chair with a hard bottom surface or the floor—cushions (optional) for comfort.

Fariya Doctor | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

Unpacking the Magic of the See-Saw Breath

I have heard from many practitioners about their dislike for the series of lessons involving the See Saw Breath. I have found ways to teach and explain these lessons that make them less elusive, and ways to help students find the movements within their organization. 

I also like to talk about anatomy and how the see-saw breath moves so much internally to change our overall health.

I am fascinated by the mechanical effects of the diaphragm on the surrounding vascular, muscular, and organ systems. 

The see-saw breath provides a way for us to discover habits and optional patterns of movement and uncouple the secondary muscles from the act of breathing.  It truly is a powerful mover of so many systems in the body.

Carol Lessinger | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

Breathing Through Your Diagonals

You will receive two Awareness Through Movement lessons. The first one highlights mobility through your breastbone, scapula, and ribs. The second lesson will expand on the first by connecting your pelvis to your shoulders and finding out how your diaphragm can accommodate to your actions. Along the way, you will be given options to discover new sensations in breathing while in asymmetrical positions.

Carol’s passion is to help you create your path of discovery while immersed in the Awareness Through Movement Lesson. She gives you the framework of the movement and then invites you to follow whatever movements arise spontaneously from the process. Self-discovery, self-trust, and self-healing are available when you are guided by your own unique body wisdom. The framework is always there to catch you when you need it.

Tim Sobie | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm PT

Beyond Diaphragmatic Breathing 101, by introducing Feldenkrais Armamentarium 303: Using Breath, Bone, and Gesture as Dynamic Triad for Revitalizing the Respiratory Landscape

Diaphragmatic belly breathing remains the routine prescription across many professional fields for treating psychophysical & physical performance conditions. However, through ‘yet to be discovered’ comparisons, is it really adequate? 

To answer this question, this workshop will sample & explore three related components: 

  1. Coherent Breathing & Autonomic Balance: Discover how self-regulation of respiration is subject to continuous perturbations & nuanced adjustment - not just a function of rate and depth.
  2. Shapeshifting Skeletal Proportions within Thoracic Synergy: Experience how torso configurations can developmentally co-opt a selection for lateralizing the motion of lung segments – and thereby serve as an anatomical correlate for the facilitation of coherent breathing - via Awareness through Movement™.
  3. Diffusing Parasitic Tension at Neck + Shoulders & Restoring Gesture: Partake in lifting the yoke of tension from neck & shoulders by invoking the intrinsic role of ‘pneumatic support’ during a side-lying demonstration practice of Functional Integration™.

 

Daniel Schmidt | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm PT

Breath, Trauma, and Resilience

"Trauma is overwhelming." Paul Linden

We can learn simple tools to restore ease. The capacity to breathe, inspire, exhale and release, support our movement and expression, and speak and sing can all be improved.

Breathing is fundamental to Feldenkrais work. But certain lessons are more focused on how we breathe. I will teach classic ATM lessons and some very new ones.

We will consider how to:  

  1. lighten the ‘overwhelm’ 
  2. work with the ‘window of tolerance’ 
  3. access more resources, 
  4. and make it fun!