Your New England Regional Officers
Lindy Ost,
Co-Rep
lindyost@gwi.net
Deborah Page,
Co-Rep & Newsletter Editor
triplespiral@me.acadia.net
Gabrielle
Wellman, Treasurer
gabrielle@prexar.com
Josh
Schrieber, Secretary
josch@rcn.com
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Cambridge First: The Feldenkrais
Approach
Comes To Harvard Square!
Five local practitioners of the Feldenkrais Method have formed an alliance, Cambridge Feldenkrais Associates, (CFA) for the purpose of creating a greater "Feldenkrais presence" in Harvard Square and practicing their movement education under one roof together. They are located in Cambridge's premier Yoga center, the newly constructed Karma Yoga Studio at 1120 Massachusetts Avenue in Harvard Square. Karma Yoga is located 4 blocks from the Red Line "T" Station, and across the street from the Inn at Harvard and the #1 Bus stop. Parking is adjacent to the building, or available on nearby Mount Auburn Street.
CFA inhabits a large professional practice space within Karma
Yoga Studio for the practice of 'hands-on' Functional Integration (FI);
as well as one-on-one training sessions in Bones for Life® (BFL). Feldenkrais practitioners
are licensed by the City of Cambridge Commissioner of Health
and Hospitals as "Movement Educators" and receive up to
800--1000 hours of training over a 3-4 year Training Program
and are Certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North
America. The Feldenkrais approach to
learning and movement is applied in many settings; from
elementary classroom to Ph.D. programs, rehabilitation, sports
clinics, music schools; in Cambridge it has been taught for
years at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Harvard
University Center for Wellness and Health Education, Longy
School of Music, Lesley University, Mount Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge Health Alliance City Hospital, Cambridge Public
Schools, Cambridge Senior Center and many other public and
private institutions. This is the first time, however, that so
many Feldenkrais
teachers are locally gathered under one roof to
practice their movement science and art as a
group.
CFA will also be offering group classes in Awareness Through Movement,
Bones for Life, and
Sounder Sleep System™, all of which are taught on a 'drop-in'
basis through their Lunch Hour Classes, 12:30-1:30, in one of
Karma's warm, uncluttered studios; cost is $15.00 per
class. There is an adjacent Café for a light lunch or a
warm cup of tea pre- or post-class or session, as well as
showers and a locker room downstairs. Wear warm loose layers
of clothing and eat lightly pre-class or one-on-one
session.
Please call 617-547-9642 to check on class schedule
pre-attendance, or view www.karmayoga.com. You may book an
individual Functional
Integration lesson with your practitioner directly
on-line: www.mybookingcalendar.com/feldenkrais . Cambridge
Feldenkrais Associates
practitioner/teachers are: Matty Wilkinson, Lauri Weinstein,
Josh Schrieber Shalem, John Stevens and Deborah Elizabeth
Lotus. For practitioner/teacher contact and more
information please visit: www.feldenkrais.com ,
www.bonesforlife.com , and www.soundersleep.com.
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Officer Profile - Lindy Ost, Co-Rep
From 1979-1981 I attended Purdue University as a student in the
Athletic Training and Pre-Physical Therapy programs. I then
attended Boston University, graduating in 1983 with a BS in Physical
Therapy. My interest in the Feldenkrais
Method developed
as a result of attending a workshop in 1990. I completed a
Feldenkrais training
with Delman/Questel Associates, and was certified in
1994.
My current practice, Movement Matters, in Brunswick, Maine, serves
both children and adults, incorporating both physical therapy
evaluations and Feldenkrais lessons. In 2007 my practice
hosted Gretchen Langner teaching Bones
For Life® classes
and will do so again in January 2008. In 2005 I initiated a
program for bringing Awareness
Through Movement into
local school classrooms. (See article.)
As a
co-representative to the FGNA, I am most interested in increasing
awareness about the Feldenkrais
Method and what
it has to offer in the larger community. Sponsoring trainings
and advanced trainings for our members, continuing to develop
mentoring programs as well as maintaining on-going communication
among our members are some of the ways I think we can progress our
professionalism and enhance our standing in our
communities.
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Awareness Through Movement® in the Public Schools
Lindy Ost
In 2005 I initiated a pilot program to introduce Awareness Through
Movement in three public school classrooms in my community with the
expectation that the new information about their movements would
make it easier for students to participate in their classroom
activities of sitting, writing, walking and attending to school
lessons. None of the teachers and students had experienced
Awareness Through Movement lessons prior to the classes. This
project evolved from a volunteer opportunity within one class to
teach Debbie Aston's "Alertness Breaks", to teaching monthly in
three classes, two fifth grade classes and one special education
class. I was curious to see if Awareness Through Movement
lessons would make it easier for students to learn and for teachers
to teach more effectively in their classrooms.
Eight Awareness Through Movement lessons were taught to the two fifth grade classes within their own classrooms. Each class had nineteen students and one teacher. Six Awareness Through Movement lessons were taught to special education class of ten students in their self-contained junior high classroom. Lessons consisted of teaching positions, functions and related vocabulary, and class discussion....
Read the rest of Lindy's article,
including student and
teacher comments
and see what lessons Lindy
used!
'Structural Improvement using a
Pathway System of Functional- Myofascial
Lengthening'
Josef DellaGrotte, PhD, RC, CPF,
LMT, Director of Core Integration Training Institute, Inc., Adjunct
Faculty, Bancroft School of Massage
Arthur Madore, LMT
co-presenting
In May
2006, we conducted a clinical study with a small group of
participants. The aim of the study was to see how much change and
improvement could take place within a given period of time using a
well-defined approach based on mapped myofascial movement pathways
and principles of Feldenkrais,Awareness
Through Movement and
Functional
Integration.
Background:
The relationship of posture, the fascia, and idiopathic pain
syndromes has been of longstanding interest. Adaptive and
compensatory deviations from biomechanical body equilibrium produce
both stress and turbulence in the musculoskeletal-myofascial system.
Can improvement in postural parameters attended by myofascial
lengthening in biomechanical based core pathways of movement
transmission affect posture and the reduction of pain?
Methods:
The
authors tested and retested a method of myofascial lengthening, Core
Integration, principles of Feldenkrais, and Awareness Through
Movement, on 16 participants over a period of two months, based on
25 biomechanical parameters, using the ISTAP [Institute of
Posturology, Florence, Italy] digital protocol developed by Dr.Ridi
and Dr.Bassi.
Using test results, Dr. DellaGrotte assigned specific myofascial
pathway exercises for participants in combination with selective
manual application by assigned practitioners. Each
participant's facilitator agreed to be available for individual
treatment and teaching, as arranged between subject and
practitioner, or by request as needed. Each movement lesson-exercise
was to be performed on a regular basis: at least once a day from
minimum of one minute to 30 minutes.
Results:
Of 20
tested, 16 agreed to follow the protocol. In actuality, only 14
followed the protocol, and when retested, all 14 showed relative
individual and group improvement {see the charts], two months later,
in postural equilibrium, statistically demonstrated to be "well
above the average obtainable by chance alone."
Click here to read the entire article
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FROM THE
TREASURER:
Dear
all my fellow Feldenkrais
folks,
I wanted to take this opportunity to explain how our New England
regional finances work. We recieve 10% of our region's
membership dues paid to FGNA. Our 2007 allotment was
$2118.50. This money is held for us by the Guild. Out of
our yearly allowance we must pay for travel expenses for our
representative(s) to attend two meetings a year of the Council
of Regional Representatives (CORR). Flight expenses are
pro-rated via a formula in order to make travel as equitable as
possible among regions. After travel expenses, our remaining funds
can be used in whatever way the region chooses. As treasurer, I
develop a budget which is approved by our members. All expenses are
then reimbursed by the Guild up to our annual allotment. If
there is any money remaining unspent from our yearly allotment by
the end of the year, it is rolled into the next year's budget.
We can supplement our finances with money we raise ourselves from
our own regional meetings, workshops, or from our library fees. You
can click on the link below to review our budget. We have
remaining to us in our own regional checking acct. $137.10 and in
our library acct. we have $176.40 available for
use.
If you have any questions or comments, please let me hear from
you.
Thank
you,
Gabrielle
Wellman
N.E.
Region FGNA Loan Librarian & Treasurer
Click here to review the
budget!
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MAINE Feldenkrais
Study Group meets February 3rd
EVERYONE
WELCOME!
DATE: Sunday,
February 3rd (with February 10th as a snow
date)
TIME: 10
am -- 4 pm
LOCATION: 65 Cranberry Street,
Wells, Maine
RSVPto Betsy: 207-646-3576
On day of Study
Group, you can reach Betsy on her cell: 207-450-6584
LUNCH: Let's do a
potluck. Bring a dish to share, or just bring food for
yourself
Click here for Directions!
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DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE New
England Region Loan Library??
Dear Fellow Feldenkrais Practitioners,
We
have a great resource in our region of an outstanding loan library.
You may borrow an item for a month to study at home. You must be a
guild member and deposit a modest refundable $30 for the privilege.
Please check out our collection and see if you'd like to become a
member of the loan library. If you would like to join, please fill
out the rental agreement and send it to me with your deposit. Let me
know what you'd like to borrow. I'll send it to you by post and you
send it back to me by the due date. That's all there is to it! You
may use these materials to fulfill your continuing education credit
hours and get a little inspiration along the way!
-Gabrielle Wellman, Treasurer & Librarian
Click on
the links below for:
General
Library Collection
P'nina
Macher Collection
Library
Rental Agreement
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Spring into
Spring!
The Feldenkrais Institute of New York
is pleased to offer Bones For
Life
with Deborah Elizabeth Lotus,
GCFP; Certified BFL Trainer, and Marcia Giudice, GCFP, MS,
OTR, Certified BFL Trainer.
Segment 1: April
11-13
Fri. 10:00am - 6:00pm
Segment 2: May
2-4
Sat. 10:00am -6:00pm
Segment 3: May 30-June
1 Sun.
9:30am-5:00pm
Click here to see the complete announcement!
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