Awareness Through Movement® Classes with Karen Clark
The Awareness Through Movement® group classes help you explore how you can move more comfortably, more freely, and elegantly. The classes offer a process for learning that leads to improved balance, increased comfort and flexibility in your movements, and in your daily life. These highly structured lessons allow you to become your own authority on how you move and present options so you can learn how you would like to move. Scientific research shows that our human brain has the potential to create new neural pathways— lifelong. Moshe Feldenkrais knew this when he wrote some of his first books, such as, The Case of Nora, and Awareness Through Movement. The practice of awareness brings increased clarity to your movements which can improve balance and coordination throughout yourself. As Moshe Feldenkrais used to say, movement is life!
WEEKLY FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT® with Karen Clark
MONDAY EVENINGS— ON LINE and ON LAND in Berkeley, CA
4:30PM - 5:30PM PST
Location:
Yoga Kula, 1700 Shattuck Avenue at Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Cost: $30 per class; or 6 classes for $150.
To sign up, click on CONTACT. Venmo, check, cash accepted.
MONDAY EVENINGS— ON LINE and ON LAND in Berkeley, CA
4:30PM - 5:30PM PST
Location:
Yoga Kula, 1700 Shattuck Avenue at Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Cost: $30 per class; or 6 classes for $150.
To sign up, click on CONTACT. Venmo, check, cash accepted.
THURSDAY MORNINGS — HYBRID—AT PARKPOINT, SONOMA, CA
Awareness Through Movement for Fitness
IN STUDIO AND ON ZOOM
Thursdays, 10:45am - 11:45am PST
NOTE: This class is now hybrid— in the Parkpoint Health Club, Sonoma and on Zoom.
19111 Sonoma Hwy, Sonoma, CA 95476
For class fee information and Zoom link, Tel. (707) 996-3111 or visit
PARKPOINT SONOMA
Awareness Through Movement for Fitness
IN STUDIO AND ON ZOOM
Thursdays, 10:45am - 11:45am PST
NOTE: This class is now hybrid— in the Parkpoint Health Club, Sonoma and on Zoom.
19111 Sonoma Hwy, Sonoma, CA 95476
For class fee information and Zoom link, Tel. (707) 996-3111 or visit
PARKPOINT SONOMA
Karen Clark, Feldenkrais Instructor received certification by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America (FGNA) in 1999. Karen's work focuses on injury prevention and recovery, healthy use of the speaking and singing voice, and how learning to sense our breathing improves our quality of life. Karen holds degrees (Master and Bachelors of Music) from the Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington. Karen's 40-year teaching career is highlighted by her association with the music departments of Swarthmore College, Princeton University, Sonoma State University, University of California, Berkeley; and, the Thornton School of Music at University of Southern California. Visit Chorus America to view Karen's Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method® for Singers HERE
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Notes from Awareness Through Movement Class Participants
"I’ve been having trouble with tendonitis. However, as the lesson progressed, I had no trouble getting my arm to move as close as I wanted; and, when we got over to the right side I noticed my right arm was resting comfortably without any thought on my part!"
"I have arthritic hands and often have trouble using the tip of my right index finger to activate a spray bottle. It was a delight after class when I had no trouble doing that!"
Functional Integration®
Private lessons, called Functional Integration take place on a specially designed table. Using gentle, hands-on, non-force manipulations, I guide your movements in a conversation to clarify the relationships between the bones and joints. As your nervous system calms, the brain then begins to identify alternative and more optimal patterns of movement. It's a way of finding out how you move and discerning which movement options are beneficial for the organization of your entire skeleton.