1203 – Ageless Agility and ROM

Beginner / Symposium 2-hour Land Workshop

Sanibel, FL / Wednesday, June 30, 2010 – 1:40-4:00 pm – 2.0 credit hours equal to 2.0 CECs/.2 CEUs

(Classroom: 1:40-4:00 pm)

Faculty: Debbie Ashton, MS, ATRIC

Participants: Please bring a towel or mat for floor work.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

These in-depth lessons were developed over a two-year span to treat specific problematic areas in therapy. The information turned out to be extremely helpful for the general population as these areas are often the underlying cause of so many pain and weakness complaints. The adductor and pectineus muscles, sub-scapular and rotators will receive new movement options that can relieve many health conditions.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1) Experience the feeling of becoming instantly taller and the ability for easier rotation just in the warm-up.

2) Demonstrate thoracic spine re-alignment.

3) Explore neck and shoulder blade freedom.

4) Develop “record-player knees” – experiencing adductor and abductor elongation.

5) Open up the vertebrae in a myriad of directions.

6) Discover “cricket alternatives: hip flexor and internal pelvic opening.

7) Determine pectineous elongation.

FACULTY: Debbie Ashton, MS, ATRIC, has been teaching dance and movement for 35 years. As a certified Feldenkrais® and Watsu® Practitioner, she treated patients on land and in water at two physical therapy clinics and two wellness centers in Knoxville, TN for 18 years. She was the first to develop Feldenkrais® in the water and has taught her "Fluid Moves" programs internationally. She has produced five teaching DVDs and in 1996, she became the first Feldenkrais® Practitioner to be on an Olympic medical team, working with the kayak teams.