with Tiffany Sankary

9 Mondays 6:15-7:15pm
JANUARY 23 – MARCH 19

Shift your understanding
& experience of  “good” posture.

FROM:                   TO:
Static                  →  Dynamic
“Ideal” Position   →  Readiness for Action
External Ideas    →   Internal Authority

Your organization in gravity improves not through trying to hold a position, but through learning to improve how you organize yourself in action.

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Moshe Feldenkrais on posture:
“From the dynamic point of view, every stable posture is one of a series of positions that constitute a movement…”  “Posture is therefore describing action, and is a dynamic term.”

“… A tree that has grown upright will bend its top in whatever direction the wind is blowing. In the same way good upright posture is that from which a minimum muscular effort will move the body with equal ease in any desired direction.”

Learn to:
• improve posture
• reduce tension/pain/stress
• change habits of thinking/moving
• improve flexibility/balance/breathing
• increase curiosity/experimentation/reversibility

The Procrastination Solution

with Barry Kesselman, M.Ed., LMHC

Dates: 3 Mondays, January 30, February 6 & 13, 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Next Series: March 12, 19 & 26

Location: Suite 2

Cost: $90

www.theprocrastinationsolution.com

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Discover Your Procrastination Solution

• Explore the roots of your procrastination
• Identify underlying purposes
• Develop practical alternatives suited to you
• Try out your new alternatives — in the workshop and in the time between meetings

In this unique workshop you’ll learn simple strategies to enable you to apply proven, pragmatic methods drawn from the instructor’s experience helping hundreds of people free themselves from procrastination.

You’ve done the time-management and the motivational classes, bought the self-help books, and gleaned the general-wisdom advice from friends, family, and others about setting goals and fighting procrastination. You still haven’t been able to change the frustrating habit of procrastination.

How Procrastination Works

People procrastinate over simple, mundane activities as well as activities that are challenging and deeply important. Procrastination is a worn-out habit that attempts to reduce some level of discomfort. This habit is partially successful — which accounts for its enduring yet frustrating nature. Procrastination is difficult to change on your own or even in the setting of time management classes, which usually fail to address the underlying meaning and purpose of procrastination.

About the Workshop

This unique workshop guides you in changing your procrastination habits while addressing their underlying purposes.

Using the insights and information gained through these techniques, you will develop an individualized set of steps that you can follow during the week. What you do with these steps (whether you follow some, all, or even none of these steps) will form a valuable foundation for the next meeting.

With the instructor’s experienced assistance, you will be guided in designing for yourself a new and more effective way of accomplishing what you need and want, allowing more enjoyment and satisfaction in your life.

The Procrastination Solution picks you up where your time management classes drop you off.

Find out more about the workshop.

DellaGrotte Core Movement Integration

Core Integrated Walking: Gait, Movement and Posture

7 Hour One Day Class

With Josef DellaGrotte and guest presenter, Dr. Neil Feldman, podiatrist, triathlete.

February 3-4, 2012

Fri. 7-9pm Intro for new participants. $20

Sat. 9:30-5:30pm $130

or $150.00 for both

(with early registration by 1/23.after:$165)

Earn 7 NCBMTB CEs.

Walking,the most recommended universal, premier exercise for health, heart, and longevity; promotes  bone density, healthy joints, endurance and strength. Workshop includes floor lessons, practice, and personal guidance.

Learn how to walk upright, improve spinal rotation, and foot mechanics

• Learn how to develop a smooth, efficient and resonant walking form-from a beginners level to an athletic level.
• Practitioner:s learn specific hands-on myofascial techniques
• Strengthen and breathe easier with a stable core
• Learn the basic anatomical core movement dynamics which stabilize, align , prevent back pain, and make walking easy, smooth, pain-free for life!

LOCATION

BodyMind Integration Center

Info & Registration by check, or other: call CITI office at: 978-461-0221,

Online registration & more info:

www.core-integration.com

Printable PDF: Core Integrated Walking

with Brynn Bishop

Saturday, Feb 25

Location: Skylight Yoga Studio

Registration: www.meetup.com/Tantric-Intimacy/calendar/14166046/

Do you crave deeper intimacy and sensual connection in your relationships?
Are you curious about integrating spirituality and sexuality?
Would you like to explore a quality of touch that nourishes not only the body, but also the soul?

In this experiential workshop you will learn:

The elements to create your own individualized Sensual Rituals
How to effectively Provide and Receive Nourishment and Healing
Techniques to Amplify and Circulate Sexual Energy – Within you & Between you
Keys to accessing Greater Pleasure – while Giving or Receiving

In this clothes-on workshop you will learn tantric principles and practices to enhance connection, energy cultivation and exchange, and the ability to create a sacred container for nourishment, healing and erotic celebration.

Benefits you will walk away with:

Concrete tools to take your connection to new depths
Skills to access new horizons of pleasure
Enhanced trust and ability to surrender

Open to all, regardless of relationship status, gender identity or sexual orientation. You may attend alone or with a partner or a friend. The location will be at a beautiful private home in Newton Center.

To inquire about Private Instruction in Personal Empowerment, Intimacy Skills and Expanded Pleasure, contact Brynn Bishop at core.empowerment@gmail.com or call 415-244-1652

Brynn Bishop is a Tantra Educator and Empowerment and Pleasure Coach with over twenty years experience in the fields of body-mind integration and consciousness relating. Brynn guides individuals and couples in clearing emotional blocks, and awakening and harnessing their vital energy to increase their capacity for intimacy and pleasure, and access their purpose and passion in life.

What past students of this workshop have said:

“My soul was deeply nourished. It was a good blend of experiential and didactic. Wonderful group of like-minded souls! ” – Laurie A

“This was a very good course… The group leader Brynn was fantastic… I would recommend this seminar to anyone with a curiosity about touch.” – Michelle O

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with Daena Giardella

Are you ready to play?

Contemplative Dance / Authentic Movement

Movement as spiritual practice, artistic resource, and psychological narrative

with Alton Wasson

March 30 – April 1, 2012

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INTRO EVENING WORKSHOP (for newcomers):
Moving Imagination
Friday, March 30, 2012,  7 – 9:30pm
This workshop gently guides people with or without previous experience into this accessible yet powerful form of moving meditation and embodied imagination. It includes guided movement meditations and Contemplative Dance / Authentic Movement. Tuition: $50. Those who participate in this workshop will qualify for and are invited to the Experienced Weekend Workshop. Friday evening is for FREE if signing up for the Experienced Weekend Workshop.

WEEKEND WORKSHOP (for experienced movers):
Saturday & Sunday: March 31, 10am – 5pm + April 1, 10am – 4pm – 12 CEUs available
This workshop will deepen our movement practice. Experiment with dimensions of the process with a group of experienced movers. Included are guided movement meditations and explorations with art media and nature. Tuition: $225 if pre-register by March 2, $250 after. A $50 deposit holds your place.

Location: Charles River Room

Register for this workshop. Payments can me made with check or PayPal.

For more info, contact Tiffany Sankary at artandfeldenkrais@gmail.com, or Alton Wasson, 413-268-3294 • altonwasson@comcast.net

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Additonal info: www.contemplativedance.org

What is Contemplative Dance?
It is a simple yet profound practice of moving meditation, also known as Authentic Movement. It works with the innate intelligence of the body, psyche and imagination, and their drive for wholeness and integration. We pay attention to the body and invite it to lead into movement or stillness, suspending self-criticism and cultivating awareness. We may move, or be moved, into deeper streams of consciousness. As we practice, the artificial boundaries between body, psyche and spirit begin to dissolve and we discover aspects of our selves and our lives from fresh perspectives. As we practice with others, we develop an appreciation for the diversity of human experience.

What does it look like?
It looks like human beings sensing, listening, being. There is no predictable style, no prescribed movement. It can include anything from complete stillness to vigorous movement through space. It is usually practiced with no musical accompaniment and with eyes inwardly focused to encourage inner attention, self-direction and a sense of privacy. Throughout there is a palpable sense of discovery and revelation, of the weight or lightness of being, of individual truths experienced and expressed.

Who is it for?
Adults of any age can practice Contemplative Dance. It requires no particular skill, training or facility in movement or dance. Rather it calls for curiosity, respect, honesty and some courage to face the unknown. It has applications in many fields, including health, education, religion, human relations and the arts. Contemplative Dance welcomes people of all races, religions, classes, ethnicities, genders, abilities and sexual orientations.

As a Spiritual Practice
It feels centering like meditation; intimate like prayer; meaningful and transformative like ritual. It heals the “split” between mind and body, spirit and matter. It brings insight into some of life’s core issues, and provides an opportunity to express and celebrate them.

As an Artistic Resource
Artists use this work to discover original material. It refines aesthetic perception and fosters greater precision, subtlety, concentration and variety. It helps to free creative blocks and renew creative desire.

As a Psychological Narrative
The personal history stored in the body becomes accessible for examination and dialogue, facilitating a more expanded, yet grounded, sense of self.

Can the workshops be used for professional development?

Yes, CEUs are available through the National Association of Social Workers and some counseling and psychotherapy associations. Please check with your professional association to see if NASW CEUs are applicable.

Tantra Beginners Seminar With Source School of Tantra Yoga

• Bed pillow for comfort and to be used as props for some of the exercises.
• Your favorite personal refillable water bottle and/or insulated hot beverage mug, both with tight-fitting lids (if desired). This helps us tread more lightly on Mother Earth. However, we provide if needed.
• Dress for comfort. Yoga type clothes seem to be the best with layers for cool and warm weather.
• We encourage you to bring the following items to beautify your room: candles/matches, flowers, and personal sacred items. These items are also available in our “sacred shopping” Tantra store.
• Please refrain from smoking or wearing perfume during the seminar due to the prevalence of allergies/sensitivities.

About the Instructors

Charles Muir is considered the originator and Pioneer of the Modern Tantra Movement in the United States. In 1980, he originated the Tantra: The Art of Conscious LovingŽ format, Sacred Spot Massage, and many other inventive experiential exercises, which have become the cornerstones in the curriculum of most Tantra educators. In addition to Red Tantra practices, Charles teaches a powerful method of White Tantra, or Laya Yoga, which is the grandfather of Hatha Yoga, with extended holds, meditation, and chakra focus. Its gentle-on-the-body approach is relaxing and revitalizing, and awakens consciousness quickly.

Leah Alchin began her Tantra education in 1997 and started co-teaching seminars with Charles Muir in 2004. She is an Advanced Certified Tantra Educator, Vice President and Director of Events at the Source School of Tantra Yoga. Leah also teaches Tantra at the prestigious Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.