Experiential Anatomy - Growing a Living Relationship with Physiology
A 12 week course - 7x live online workshops and 5x Feldenkrais lessons.
Trusting in your own experience...
In this course you will be encouraged to explore using your lived experience and felt sense rather than things you think you know. Of course knowing things is important too... but we'll get to that later...
Through, movement, imagination and touch, we will move through 7 deep dive live Experiential Anatomy workshops and 5 pre-recorded Feldenkrais classes. We will discover ways of coming into relationship with parts of ourselves that we may not have imagined possible.
We will share about what we encountered and then further support our learning with science.
The primary focus of this course is to re-home our imagination, envisioning, felt sense and instinct in an integrated and earthed place within our experience of being embodied.
Everyone who signs up receives the recordings of all sessions.
Alan Watts
7 x 2.5hr Experiential Anatomy sessions with Feldenkrais, sharing circles, 3D anatomy & physiology maps and integration
Welcome to the course! A message from Rachel - some practical details
Intro to what to expect of the movement sessions - Somatic Movement v/s Feldenkrais
An Introduction to Feldenkrais for those new to it - what you'll need for your first Feldi class
Peer Groups - Please complete this form...
Starting From The Ground, Up - Intro Video
The Gift and Challenge of Gravity & Weight Bearing
Starting from the Ground Up - Live Workshop Session - practical details
Recording of the Live workshop - 1
Anatomy Notes - Week 1 - The Feet!
Anatomy Notes - Week 1 - The Bones of the Pelvis
Intro to Week 2 - Reaching, Looking, Desiring
Orienting, The Horizon and Moving Towards What We Desire
Looking Out - Seeing Reaching - Live Workshop Session
Recording of the Live Workshop - Week 2
Anatomy Notes Week 2 - The Hands
Anatomy Notes Week 2 - The Central Nervous System & Intro to Brain Functions
Week 3 - Feldenkrais Lesson - 1
Intro to the first Feldenkrais Class
Feldenkrais Class 1 - The Feet and It's Toes - Audio Only
Feldenkrais Class 1 - The Feet & It's Toes - Video
Reflection questions for your peer group
Feldenkrais Lesson (Week 4)
Week 4 - Intro to this week's Feldenkrais Class -
Week 4 - Feldenkrais Class - Work with the dominant hand
Week 4 - Feldenkrais Class - Work with the dominant hand - audio only
Reflection questions for your peer group
Week 5 - Intro to Waves, Pulses & Spirals
Tracking The Archetypal Shapes We (And All Nature) Are Made Of
Rolling and Turning - Waves, Spirals and Pulses - Live Workshop Session
Waves Spirals & Pulses - Embodied Metaphor Live Class Recording
Anatomy notes - Week 5 - The Female v/s Male Pelvis
Anatomy Notes - Week 5 - Orientation and Relationships in Space
Anatomy Notes - Week 5 - Peripheral, Autonomic and Parasympathetic Nervous System & how they relate to Poly Vagal Theory
Intro to week 6 - The Breath, Breathing and Being Breathed
Biological v/s Cultural Breathing & Engaging The Diaphragms of the Body
Being Breathed - Live Workshop Session
Week 6 Being Breathed - Recording of the live workshop
Anatomy notes for Week 6 - Breathing and the Diaphragms
Feldenkrais Lesson (Week 7)
Feldenkrais Lesson Intro - The biology of Turning & Spiralling in the Human Organism
Week 7 - Feldenkrais lesson 3 - Recording of the class - Turning and Spiralling
Week 7 Feldenkrais class recording - Turning and Spiralling AUDIO ONLY
Feldenkrais Lesson (Week 8)
Feldenkrais Lesson Intro - the Biological Experience of Breathing in Humans
Week 8 - Feldenkrais Breathing Lessons
Week 8 - Feldenkrais Breathing Lesson 1
Week 8 - Feldenkrais Breathing Lesson 2
Interoception - Navigating Internal Maps via Our Felt Sense, Movement & the Imaginal
Visiting the Heart and the Microverse - Live Workshop Session
Intro To Week 9 - Live Workshop intro
Week 9 - Live class recording - Visiting The Chambers of the Heart.
Anatomy notes for the Heart
Fractals and Resonances - Mapping the Interior with its Counterpoint in the Field & the Cosmos
Week 10 Workshop Intro
Sensing In to Sense Out: This Whole Body as Microverse within Larger Living Systems - Live Workshop Session
EA - Week 2 - Recording of the live session - Microverse and Macroverse
Anatomy Notes for the Microverse
Feldenkrais Lesson (Week 11)
Intro to the Week 11 - Feldenkrais class - freeing the legs
Week 11 - 5th Feldenkrais lesson
Week 12 intro - Final week!
Closing Circle - moving forwards
Closing Circle - Moving Forwards - Live Workshop Session
Week 12 - Recording of the Final Session
Rachel Blackman
Pricing is worked out on a sliding scale:
REGULAR price is - £299
If you are ok for money money please choose this price. (for example you have a car and have no trouble paying your rent / mortgage & / or you own property.) This amount works out at £24.90 per week.
CONCESSION price is - £249
If money is a little less easy - this price works out at £20.85 pw - (for example you mostly have no trouble paying your rent / mortgage and meeting your basic living costs and usually get by ok.)
BUDGET price is £199
This price works out at £16.60 p/w - (for example you may struggle with basic living costs. Please only select this price if you really need it.)
SPONSORSHIP price is - £499 -
Pay for yourself and for someone who can't afford it - or sponsor 2 places!
If you are good for money and want to share the love with someone who couldn't otherwise afford it. This covers you and one other person. Or two other people. You can either nominate someone or let us know the discounted ticket(s) is / are available and we'll find a match for it! This option works out at £41.60 pw.
If money is even tighter, but you are keen to join, there are further options available upon agreement.
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