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A Workshop at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
with Patrick Douce
Spinal Awareness with Humor: The Essence of
Feldenkrais® and Energy Work
January 4 - 9, 2009
Spinal Awareness is a way of learning, not a therapy or
treatment. It is taught with movement, touch, and group
interaction. It is based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais,
Taoist-Chinese- Indonesian martial art, and the Esalen
experience. It continues to evolve. Spinal Awareness will
improve body awareness, flexibility, posture, and many
chronic and acute conditions of your body. Problems in
your lower back, neck, shoulder, hips, knees, elbows,
ankle, wrist, and jaw are only some of the physical
limitations that can benefit from this approach. 
These movements are quite different
from normal exercises. Spinal Awareness emphasizes
learning how to move in ways that stimulate your
awareness of your own body. The workshop will present
a new understanding of how tension and injury are often
involved with the disorganization in the skeletal-muscular
parts of the body.
Safe and noninvasive hands-on lessons
that greatly speed up your improvements will be taught.
Lessons inspired by Indonesian Silat will be used to stimulate
the energy body, effecting internal health and increasing energy.
These movements, originating from the monasteries of China and
Tibet, further increase our healing possibilities.
The use of joy and humor will be
the undertone of this week. Real freedom in the body
is also freedom of spirit and fun.
This is a program designed both
for the beginner and professional.
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