Feldenkrais + Gaga Movement Workshop
When:
Sunday, Feb 26, 2023 1:45p -
4:15p
Sunday, Feb 26, 2023 1:45p -
4:15p
Where:
Dance Complex
536 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA 02129
Admission:
$38
Hosted by:
Categories:
Classes, Date Idea, Innovation, Sports & Active Life
Event website:
https://www.feldenkraisjamaicaplain.com/groupclasses/feldenkrais-gaga-february
Come join us for an afternoon of movement with the Feldenkrais Method and Gaga Movement Language! Everyone is welcome; no prior experience required.
Date: Sunday, February 26th
Time: 1:45 - 4:15pm
Location: The Dance Complex (Studio 1) - 536 Mass Ave, Cambridge MA 02139
Space is limited to 25 participants, please register at your earliest convenience. Masking is encouraged. All abilities are welcomed. Two volunteer spots are available, in exchange for the cost of the class. Please email [email protected]
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Through guided attention and playful movements, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons engage your whole self to explore the dynamic relationships of how you move and hold yourself. Recreating the way young children learn new motor skills, these classes provide a safe environment to let go of habitual, unconscious, and unnecessary muscular work. Grounded in neuroscience, physics, martial arts, and psychology, the Feldenkrais Method® offers a direct and effective means to attain greater ease, comfort, and stability in all of your physical activities. A regular Feldenkrais practice is great for improving coordination and flexibility, decreasing anxiety and stress, refining performance in your favorite athletic or creative pursuits, as well as injury prevention and recovery.
Gaga classes are predicated on a deep activation of the body and physical sensations. The instructions are deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation, and rather than turning from one prompt to another, information is layered, building into a multi-sensory, physically challenging experience. Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort. The research of Gaga is in a continual process of evolution, and the classes vary and develop accordingly.
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Eve Boltax is a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner based in Jamaica Plain, MA. She currently teaches Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® classes at Blissful Monkey in JP and offers individual Functional Integration sessions out of her home studio. She started playing the violin at age 6 and discovered the Feldenkrais Method® when she was a graduate student at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Her work has been described as “magical,” “bold,” “insightful,” “calming,” and “steadfast.” Learn more: www.feldenkraisjamaicaplain.com
Ana Harmon is a dancer and arts advocate currently living in Boston, MA. Ana attended Boston Latin High School while training with Boston Ballet’s pre-professional program, before joining Ballet Austin II in 2008. After completing MASA Dance Journey on Kibbutz Ga’aton in 2010, she joined Kamea Dance Company in Beer Sheva where she danced for three years, touring across Israel and internationally. Ana received a BA Summa Cum Laude in Liberal Arts from Tel Aviv University in 2016. From 2016-2018 she worked for Batsheva Dance Company’s International Development department. Today Ana is the International Project Manager for Gaga Movement Research and is a certified Gaga teacher. https://www.gagapeople.com/en/
