NEW EXCITING WORKSHOP SERIES AT OJAS YOGA CENTER!
Ojas Yoga Center ~ El Cerrito, California
(near El Cerrito BART / Trader Joe's)
Deane began teaching a new series of workshops at Ojas Yoga Center—The Structure of Movement, in collaboration with Nicole Becker, the owner of Ojas Yoga Center, in August 2011. These will be dynamic, interactive workshops, including anatomy slides, lecture and discussion, yoga asanas led by Nicole, hands-on facilitation for the melding of anatomical understanding with the development of asanas related to the slide material, and my hands-on release techniques for opening areas of movement limitation and resistance. The first workshop, "The Pelvic Bowl", was filled to capacity!
THE STRUCTURE OF MOVEMENT
Anatomy, Physiology and Energetics of Yoga, Massage, and Movement
Our bodies are our temples. Yoga is the practice of cleansing, freeing, strengthening energizing and organizing these vessels of our life's vitality and actively increasing their potency in all of their relationships in the worlds of both matter and mind. Understanding and visualizing our bodies' internal structures and processes are essential for effectively maximizing the life-long development of our physical and spiritual potentials, and fully participating in our co-creative relations with our selves, our fellow travelers, our planet, and the cosmos. As Rainer Rilke expressed it so eloquently, "Stretch wide your poles, because inside human beings is where God learns."
This series of workshops is designed for students and instructors of yoga, massage practitioners and clients, and movement therapists and students of all kinds. Each four-hour class will include:
- Slides to illustrate anatomy, movement and physiological/energetic processes in the body
- Lecture and discussion to clarify the roles of the skeleton, muscles and nervous system in movement and the development of fully expansive and empowered asana postures
- Instruction and hands-on assistance for the growth of your asana practice
- Hands-on massage releasing and strengthening techniques for opening restrictions, relieving pain and discomforts, avoiding and recovering from injuries, and maximizing ease in the development of strength and flexibility
- Increased breath awareness and relaxation
Schedule:
All workshops are four hours, from 1pm-5pm
While there is a natural progression and unfoldment to the areas that will be the focus of individual workshops, each will be complete in itself and will not require participation in previous ones.
The cost of each workshop is $95.
THE BODY OF BREATH
Part 2 in the Structure of Movement Series
Deane Juhan, Expert Bodyworker & Anatomist
Nicole Becker, Yoga Therapist
Sunday September 18, 2011 ~ 1-5 pm ~ Ojas Yoga Center
El Cerrito, California
(near El Cerrito BART / Trader Joe's)
The tidal rhythm of breath is one of our deepest connections to the life force. The ancient traditional Hindu story of creation sings that the manifestation of the universe began with a sound; and the generation of that sound is from the breath. The cosmos breathes and we breathe with it, like an infant on the chest of its mother.
One of the primary functions of our yoga practice is to free the expansive movement of our torsos, our shoulders, our pelvis, and our limbs to facilitate and strengthen our breathing and our circulation to keep the life-supporting prana moving through us without restriction and to open all our channels of cleansing.
Read the Flyer for this workshop.
This class provides certification for 24 hours of NCBTMB Continuing Education credit.
Deane F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider.
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RESISTANCE RELEASE WORK
Sept. 23-25, 2011
A Dynamic Addition to Your Massage Skills
Raleigh Area, North Carolina
Contact:
Nancy Toner Weinberger
weinberger 'at' mindspring.com
dynamicequilibrium.com
(919) 562-1548
Relaxation and stress relief are certainly two main goals of bodywork. But there is an important addition to your clients’ somatic well-being that more directly addresses the patterns of muscular habituation, posture, compensations due to injury and the restoring of freedom of movement and freedom from pain: the re-education of the overall sensory motor patterns that have accumulated over time. The work that will be presented in this workshop is an innovative approach developed by Deane Juhan, based upon the rehabilitative techniques of Dr. Milton Trager.
Functionally, we are really one muscle that is divided up by the connective tissue structures into different compartments in order to provide specific vectors of motion and coordinated groups of muscles. We are not robots with hinges, cables and pulleys, but shape-changers, and any gesture involves the participation of wide-spread muscular supports and motivators.
It is difficult for individuals to free up and re-coordinate restricted movement patterns without actively engaging the muscle groups that have become stuck in habituated patterns and that are causing discomforts and limitations. This engagement is not simply a matter of “relaxing,” but of lengthening some muscle cells, contracting others, more effectively recruiting motor nerves and their motor units for coordinated action, and establishing both increased strength and ease. Resistance/Release is a process of providing traction and/or compression to muscle groups, asking the client to pull or push against the resistance applied, and guiding them through the process of refining the coordination of their efforts. The resulting reorganization provides a more evenly distributed action throughout extensive muscle groups and an immediate experience of less effortful and more effective movement. Restrictions of movement and the discomforts of the resulting strain disappear, and both ranges of motion along and the minimization of over-all effort are dramatically enhanced.
Resistance/Release work is designed to re-coordinate our musculature as a whole and to train more efficient and effective recruitments of muscular contractions and lengthenings involved in any position or movement, from feet to head and from sleeve to core. The result is dramatically improved muscular coordination, adding both ease and strength to all physical activities.
The work also bridges the gap, felt by many practitioners and clients, between the active giver and the passive receiver, the "expert" and the "problem." It establishes a dynamic relationship in which both parties are participating and learning together. No two repetitions of resistance and movement, and no two sessions are ever alike, opening the door to a fertile and creative exchange and an ever-evolving mutual growth for both parties involved. It is the end to repetitive protocols and routines for the practitioner, and an opening of never-ending possibilities of exploration and self-development for the client.
This work is a powerful adjunct to any bodyworker's previous training and focus.
This class provides certification for 24 hours of NCBTMB Continuing Education credit.
Deane F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider.
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CONNECTIVE TISSUE: WEB OF STRUCTURE, WEB OF CH'I
Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2011
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health ~ Stockbridge, MA
Contact:
Kripalu.org
800-741-7353
Learn to embody and energize one of your most fascinating tissues! Connective tissue, or fascia, is both a primary structural element and a rich source of energy in our organisms. A great deal of recent research has demonstrated that it is not only the stuff that holds us together (and can restrict our freedom of movement), but also a sensitive antenna for perception and a vital source of ch'i. This experiential workshop will use slides, lecture and discussion, and meditation-in-movement to bring this important part of your body-mind to life. Participants will learn the molecular, energetic, and structural elements of connective tissue. They will also go home with a repertoire of movement meditations with which to explore and improve this tissue and its functions in all their activities. This experience will be of great use to massage therapists, movement therapists, dancers, yoga practitioners and teachers, those involved in athletics, anyone who is rehabilitating injuries (or wants to learn how to avoid them), and anyone who wants to feel more vital and alive. Deane Juhan has been teaching this material and using it in his private practice and bodywork trainings for thirty years. Come and enjoy yourself for a weekend with Deane, author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork. This workshop is open to all.
Read the Flyer for this workshop.
Deane's Bio at the Kripalu website.
This class provides certification for 24 hours of NCBTMB Continuing Education credit.
Deane F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider.
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FREEING THE NECK AND SHOULDER GIRDLE
RESISTANCE AND RELEASE WORK
THE TRAGER® APPROACH
Trager® Elective With Deane Juhan
24 Credit hours through NCBTMB
October 21-23, 2011
Princeton, NJ
Contact:
Betty Post
609-275-3802
bettypost [ at ] msn.com
Tuition fee: $375.
To register:
Please send a $100 deposit before September 15, 2011 to:
Betty Post
P.O. Box 234
Princeton Jct., NJ 08550.
Make check payable to Betty Post.
Functionally, we are really one muscle that is divided up by the connective tissue structures into different compartments in order to provide specific vectors of motion and coordination among extensive groups of muscles. It is difficult for individuals to free up and re-coordinate restricted movement patterns without actively engaging the muscle groups that have become stuck in habituated patterns and that are causing discomforts and limitations. This engagement is not simply a matter of "relaxing," but of lengthening some muscle cells, contracting others, more effectively recruiting motor nerves and their motor units for coordinated action, and establishing both increased strength and ease.
The resulting reorganization provides a more evenly distributed action throughout extensive muscle groups and an immediate experience of less effortful and more effective movement.
Read more in the Flyer for this workshop.
This class provides certification for 24 hours of NCBTMB Continuing Education credit.
Deane F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider.
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