What causes us to lose stability and flexibility, and how can we regain these qualities? What are habitual patterns when moving, when evaluating yourself and others? Do you sometimes stand in the way of your own mobility and spontaneity?
In this series of workshops, you will discover freedom and energy within your own movement on various levels.
Part 1 (16.02.): Awakening body awareness
The first part awakens awareness of the body. You get to know a new quality of being in your own body - at rest and in movement - and what role the balance of the head plays in this. To find this balance, it helps to “get out of the way” - with cognitive thinking and the head in the literal sense. The head weighs 5-8 kg. How does it feel when you stop holding it? What dynamic does that set free? This new experience can be completely new! In this way, you can find a super helpful tool to release tension in the neck.
Part 2 (23.03.): Spatial perception and self-organization
In the second part, the focus is on spatial perception:One is in relation to others, to space -to the world. What is this relationship like, how do we perceive it? And what changes when the perspective on space changes? Different perspectives within the encounter are explored, the role of the eyes in relation to coordination of movement, and the body's ability to organize itself.
Part 3 (06.04): opening the upper back
This workshop focuses on the mobility and stability of the shoulders and arms: How to use your arms and shoulders in movement - working on new ways to awaken the mobility of your shoulders, open up your upper back and shoulders, and integrate your arms and back in movement.
All three workshop parts build on each other, but it is also possible to participate on individual dates.
About the method:
The Alexander Technique is suitable for anyone who wants to get to know their body better and is open to an origin-oriented approach. It is body-oriented awareness work and combines influences from embodiment and new cognitive sciences, biomechanics and neurology, psychology and mindfulness. It develops an awareness of what you are actually doing during the simplest of actions. It is possible to move effortlessly and without pain if you learn to understand and use the body's biomechanics. Superfluous tension can be released as the body is given the space to move as it is built to do.
