2616 – Feldenkrais® Neck and Shoulder

Intermediate / Pre-Symposium 2-hour Land Workshop

Sanibel, FL / Monday, June 28, 2010 - 5:40-8:00 pm - 2.0 credit hours equal to 2.0 CECs/.2 CEUs

(Classroom: 5:40-8:00 pm)

Faculty: Debbie Ashton, MS, ATRIC

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

COURSE DESCRIPTION: These more involved Feldenkrais® lessons will help those recovering from neck, thoracic spine, shoulder, elbow, and wrist surgery or overuse injuries. Athletes, computer users, and physical laborers will benefit from using these movement sequences. Feldenkrais® reprograms harmful, habitual movement patterns by creating a new awareness and movement efficiency.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1) Apply Feldenkrais® principles in working with patients who have pain and limited ROM in the neck and shoulder area.

2) Discover three lessons that quickly make changes in the functional ability to turn, look, and reach.

3) Explore simple ways to improve posture, breathing, and upper body rotation.

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.