Beginner / Pool
Workshop
Fort Myers, FL /
Wednesday, July 2 - 7:00-9:20 am - 2.0 credit hours equal to 2.0 CECs/.2 CEUs
(Classroom: 7:00-8:00 am / Pool:
8:20-9:20 am)
Faculty: Debbie Ashton, MS,
ATRIC
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course utilizes ankle
floatation devices to achieve unique stretches, which help in learning
self-traction movements to experience freedom in joint range of motion for the
entire body. This course will prove to be very helpful for fibromyalgia and arthritis
populations.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
·
Apply the Feldenkrais® principles to move with greater efficiency.
·
Experience the inner awareness of how changes in the pelvis and spine
affect the whole body structure’s mechanics.
·
Explore three specific lessons the help reorganize the relationship of
the spine, pelvis and neck, which patients can learn to do on their own.
Participants: Please bring a towel or mat for floor work.
FACULTY: Debbie Ashton, MS, ATRIC, has been teaching dance and exercise for over 35
years. As a certified Feldenkrais® and Watsu® Practitioner, she has been
treating patients on land and in water at two physical therapy clinics and two
wellness centers in Knoxville, TN for 18 years, while teaching her "Fluid
Moves" courses internationally at conference and rehab facilities. Her
"Alertness Breaks" programs have been offered as college credit
courses, and in 1996, she became the first Feldenkrais® Practitioner to be on
an Olympic medical team. She has produced three teaching videos and several
audio sets, and developed the Well Beings Mats to support people in their
independent healthy life choices.