ADVANCED TRAINING FOR FFELDENKRAIS® PRACTITIONERS Live In Person 3 DAY ADVANCED TRAINING in St. Louis, MO Sponsored by the Midwest Region of FGNA with Prisca Winslow ~ Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner & Assistant Trainer I so want to gather together and share my enthusiasm and learning in a way that brings our community together in supportive, encouraging and empowering ways. This work is needed more now than any time in my lifetime and after over 30 years of practice I want practitioners to get the work out there fully and confidently! Prisca Friday - Sunday ~ April 25th - 27th, 2025 An Awareness Through Movement® adventure to fully embody 3-D action so you may sense, feel, think and share your experience more clearly. Let's gather together to better envision global action in even the smallest of movements within the process of working with another in Functional Integration® At the beautiful Mercy Conference and Retreat Center FULL SPHERE AWARENESS ~ Imagine That! "The main feature of the technique consists in making available the full range of functioning in all planes, the idea behind it being Not that spontaneity is enacting any wild urge that happens to exist, but that ALL action is spontaneous when it is not compulsive." ~ Moshé Feldenkrais, The Potent Self Imagine for a moment you are standing, balancing inside of a hollow globe, hands and feet spread, palms and soles of your feet pressing equally against the surface sensing the roundness. You can feel your length, width and depth; see the hemisphere in front of you and sense the hemisphere behind you. A small change in your movement or pressure of a hand or foot in a specific way could roll the ball in the direction of your choice. I don't know if anyone has done such a thing, but there is the awe-inspiring cyr wheel! Highly skilled athletes, martial and performing artists develop this spherical awareness extending their proprioception to the environment they are playing and moving in. True awareness in action! When we develop a fuller sense of ourself in space, our personal globe, we feel safer and are able to respond with more spontaneity. We all began constructing three dimensional awareness early in life and our experience in Awareness Through Movement® has enlivened and reanimated the process. Let's investigate how we can better use that confidence and skill in all the activities we love including working with others in Functional Integration®. PLEASE JOIN ME AND OUR COLLEAGUES AS WE: Engage our imagination in Awareness Through Movement® to embody full sphere awareness so we envision action when working with each other in St. Louis and when we return home to our practice. Reawaken curiosity for the mysterious and complex "masterpiece" at the end of each leg! "The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art." ~ Leonardo da Vinci Bring the heels more prominently into our awareness providing the support and stability needed to carry our head high and stand on our own two feet. Experience how freeing the shoulders can lighten the load on the lower back and is key to accessing length, strength and balance. Energize our back muscles by sensing more clearly the hemisphere behind and above Please Register Early There must be at least 12 practitioners registered by April 7th for this Advanced Training to occur. A note from Prisca on the experience that inspired Full Sphere Awareness workshops. The theme for FULL SPHERE AWARENESS ~ Imagine That! showed up for me as I was walking in the park December, 2023 sensing so many things I have been learning over the past 3 years. As my attention moved from one awareness to the next I recognized how fluidly it was happening, AND how much more present I was to the environment. People controlling their small aggressive dog coming toward me, the friendly dog behind, a couple playing ball with another on the lawn to the side; the sound of the emergency vehicles in the distance and the sky's morphing magnificent colors of the sunset. All this, and I felt me, in my smaller sphere, moving through space effortlessly and clearly, walking light and tall connected to the earth. It was a moment of Yes! This is why I do Feldenkrais for all these years. This is presence. A walk in the park for me is far easier to be present than some other settings, and yet each time I experience full presence it is more familiar, certainly not less profound, and I trust I am learning. I have no doubt my persistent nature will bring more opportunities! I'd love to share some of my discoveries with you! If you'd like to see some of the inspiration I found after coming up with the theme, below are a couple of mind boggling performers. Enjoy! ~ Prisca Spherical Inspirations: copy/paste or type into search engine > Cyr Wheel: 2017 Formosa Salsa Festival Feat. Isaac Hou (Taipei, Taiwan), imagine the globe! > "Darja Varfolomeev's (GER), Ball, 2023, Valencia World Championships All Around Final." Her smile is infectious! Workshop Hours: Friday 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 1/2 hour break for lunch) Saturday 10:00am – 7:00pm (2 1/2 hour break to include MWFGNA meeting) Sunday 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 1/2 hour break for lunch) Workshop Cost: Early Bird expires March 28th Early Bird: FGNA Members $395, Non Members $420 Regular Registration: FGNA Members $415, Non Members $430 PAYMENT OPTIONS Contact: Sandy Weiss bikeweiss@gmail.com Payments must be received by: March 28th for Early Bird and April 7th for Regular fee. Prisca Winslow, GCFP and Assistant Trainer, like everyone else, began her life discovering the world through movement. She has continued to do so through a variety of intriguing forms of movement arts, all of which Feldenkrais® has informed and made more doable and fun! She first discovered the Feldenkrais Method® in 1983 after a four year search trying numerous other methods and therapies to heal from chronic ankle and back pain. It quickly brought her to enjoy again what she has always loved... Dance. The process continues to be expansive and rewarding and she is excited to share her learning. Prisca has presented Awareness Through Movement® classes and workshops for the general public, performing and movement artists and teachers, athletes and equestrians since 1989 and has enjoyed a full time Functional Integration® practice in Taos, NM for over 30 years. She has assisted in a number of Trainings, including as Continuity Assistant beginning in 2000. Recent years brought her to once again personally experience how meaningful and effective the Method is for recovery!		WELCOME ADVANCED TRAINING FOR FELDENKRAIS® PRACTITIONERS WORKSHOPS FOR A HEALTHY DANCEWORLD MOSHE FELDENKRAIS, D.Sc. CLASSES & WORKSHOPS FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION® AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT® PRISCA WINSLOW IN THE NEWS HOME "I had the good fortune to take a one day version of Prisca’s workshop, Full Sphere Awareness, Imagine That! As a Feldenkrais practitioner of many years and an Aikido student of a couple years, I was intrigued by how relevant the themes were to both practices. Developing the sense of 360 degree awareness of space, connection to the ground, movement in spirals, the use of the eyes, of the feet, of imagination… the lessons built upon each other in a meaningful way. I felt expanded at the end, and had the sense of my center as well as awareness of the space all around. It brought out elements of the martial arts that are one of the foundations of our work." ~ Bethany Cobb, GCFP Click here for more testimonials... Prisca Winslow PO Box 2714 Taos, New Mexico 87571 phone 575.779.7169 email info@moveintobalance.com
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