2617 – Floating Feldenkrais®

Intermediate / Pre-Symposium 4-hour Pool Workshop

Sanibel, FL / Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 7:00-11:20 am - 4.0 credit hours equal to 4.0 CECs/.4 CEUs

(Classroom: 7:00-9:00 am / Pool: 9:20-11:20 am)

Faculty: Debbie Ashton, MS, ATRIC

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

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Experience freedom in joint range of motion for the entire body by using ankle floatation devices to achieve unique stretches, which help in learning self-traction and restorative movements. This course will prove to be very helpful for clients with back pain, chronic pain (fibromyalgia, arthritis), deconditioned and aging populations. It is also beneficial for re-patterning of the trunk.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1) Apply the Feldenkrais® principles to move with greater efficiency.

2) Experience the inner awareness of how changes in the pelvis and spine affect the mechanics of the entire body structure.

3) Identify three specific lessons that help reorganize the relationship of the spine, pelvis and neck, which patients can learn to do on their own.

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.