Feldenkrais at World Fellowship Center
Conway, NH
An enriching, multi-level program for voices, recorders, lutes, guitars, viols and baroque-style strings, or anything else we can make fit! Opportunities for formal and informal music making at all levels with an experienced faculty of teacher/performers.
And, best of all, daily Awareness Through Movement classes focused on issues of interest to musicians such as: breath, performance anxiety, arm function and dexterity.
Daily ATM classes are free to World Fellowship guests. Music classes cost only $250 for the week.
Click here to learn more about the program.
If you've ever been to a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement class, you've probably experienced the wonderful, and at times profound, changes that can take place through this method in your body and in your sense of self. Now imagine what could happen over the course of several whole days, as you go deeper and deeper into your senses, and flesh out the map of your self-image.
This weekend retreat is modeled on the process used in professional Feldenkrais Practitioner training. We will do at least three Awareness Through Movement lessons each day, allowing time for both rest and discussion between lessons to help you integrate what you have experienced. The program will take place in the morning and early afternoon, leaving you free to enjoy everything else that World Fellowship has to offer for the rest of the day.
About this year's theme: Walking!
Upright, bipedal walking is a fundamentally human ability. Years of evolution have perfected in us a design capable of maintaining a dynamic upright posture capable of sustained and graceful locomotion. Yet many of us have forgotten how to stand with our heads high, our hips and shoulders free, and to stride with the grace and power that is our heritage.
Because of its biologically fundamental nature, walking can also be a key to unlock scores of movement difficulties, from sore hips to stiff necks and shoulders to restricted breathing. Meet the summer with your head held high, and a spring in your step!
If you live in the Boston area, come to a 'preview' of this material at the Arlington Center on Sunday morning, June 8.
(Click here to see description of themes from previous years: "Power & Grace from the Core" "Spiral Power")
Logistics:
Tentative schedule:
Sunday, June 29
Monday & Tuesday, June 30, July 1
Wednesday, July 4
As on Monday & Tuesday, with conclusion of program immediately after lunch.
Costs:
- Program fee: $125.
- Room and board varies according to accommodations and length of stay. See the World Fellowship website for details.
Questions & registration:
- For questions about the program, email me or call me at 781-640-8794.
- For questions about the site or costs, visit www.worldfellowship.org, email office@worldfellowship.org or call (603) 447-2280.
- To make a reservation and register for the retreat call (603) 447-2280 or email reservations@worldfellowship.org.
Due to limited space, enrollment will be limited to twelve, so make your reservations now!
This workshop is the highlight of my professional year. I hope you can join me for this liberating and invigorating retreat at the foot of Mt. Chocorua! Good people, good food, good views, and lots of great moving! Four whole days of rolling around on the floor, walking in the woods, swimming in the pond and feeling more and more like yourself as you knew you could be, but were afraid to hope for!
Hope to see you in New Hampshire,
~Josh.
Between June 22 and July 2 I will be teaching daily ATM classes open to all visitors at the World Fellowship center at no additional charge. During Early Music week and the Feldenkrais retreat, these classes will be connected to the full day program, but open to non-program participants as well.
I will also be available for a limited number of Functional Integration lessons during this time, especially between the 5th and the 7th, after the programs are over.
World Fellowship Center is an educational international, interracial, multicultural, intergenerational vacation center offering a unique environment to renew body, mind and spirit. Set amid 455 acres in New Hampshire's White Mountains, the World Fellowship Center invites people from diverse social, economic and cultural backgrounds and identities to share their vacations and ideas in a peaceful, rustic setting.
The campus boasts a gorgeous view of Mt. Chocorua, nature trails, and a pond for swimming and boating which is home to a pair of nesting loons who return every year. Housing ranges from inexpensive camping to beautiful affordable rooms in four different buildings. Wonderful common spaces, including large screened-in porches and living-rooms with functioning fire-places, allow you to make new friends. Home-style meals are prepared on site with freshly baked bread and vegetables from the garden. "Children's Fellowship" provides on-site childcare so parents can participate in programs.
To learn more and to make reservations visit www.worldfellowship.org.
Please tell them if you are registering for Early Music Week or the Feldenkrais intensive.
Josh Schreiber, GCFP
781-640-8794 josch at rcn.com
The Feldenkrais Method® -- discover yourself from the inside
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