Workshop Series at LIMS®
Hands-on Re-patterning

These courses are continuing education for Certified Movement Analysts (CMAs), students training to become CMAs, and those with training in LMA/BF or BMC.  They also meet part of the requirements for ISMETA registration as a Somatic Movement Therapist and/or Educator

The Bartenieff Approach to Fascia through Movement

Faculty: Jackie Hand and John Chanik (Scroll down for more on our faculty)

Course Description: You will learn to perceive how personal history, beliefs and feelings appear in movement, and acquire skills for responding to individual movement expression in support of healing and growth. In addressing the holding and release of tissues as well as the individual movement patterns, we constantly return to the whole body and whole person -- the connections in the body, changes of attitude (Effort), pathways (Space) and relationship (Shape) of the body.

Hands-on techniques integrating in-depth knowledge of anatomy, physiology, dynamic alignment and dynamic stretching will be taught. Learn how movement re-patterning works differently than "exercise" or "adjustments" through the understanding and use of LMA/BF principles for strengthening/coordination/balance and their effect on whole-body movement patterning and physiology.

The application of Bartenieff Fundamentalstm to medical and therapeutic settings will be included, as well as the new insights of the top experts pioneering this profound work. Each day will start with a Self-Care warm-up using Bartenieff Fundamentalstm and than will explore a topic from Connective Tissue Therapy through practice, application, and integration of hands-on skills.

Goal of the workshop:

· Learn BF/LMA as an approach to address individual needs

· Develop professional practice skills in hands-on work

· Enhance your professional practice including: Marketing LMA/BF in the wellness profession, Counseling skills and Observation, and Intuition Skills & Trusting yourself.

Dates and times:
Friday, May 13th; 4 - 8 pm; SITI Company Studio-310
Saturday, May 14th; 10 - 7:30 pm;The Red Bean Studios
Sunday, May 15th; 10 - 7:30 pm; The Red Bean Studios
(20 hours towards ISMETA certification)

Locations: Friday: SITI Company's Studio; 520 8th Avenue, Suite 310; New York, NY 10018
Saturday & Sunday: The Red Bean Studios320 W. 37th Street, Studio 701; New York, NY 10018

Cost of May Workshop:
Nonmembers $675; Members $600

Registration Deadline is April 15, 2011
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Essential Movement Patterns: Assessment, Intervention, Activation, Coordination, Balance

Faculty:  Dianne Woodruff (Scroll down for more on our faculty)

Course Description: Patterns in movement are acquired and developed through experience. Bartenieff spoke of "muscling through a sequence." Vladimir Janda spoke of "trick" movements. Both these phrases refer to substitutions made by the mover in place of good motoric patterns. In Essential Movement Patterns you will learn to recognize and correct those patterns used uniquely by humans in their bipedal stance and movement. Learn exercises you can teach to facilitate and maintain patterns, including your own. Build your professional assessment skills and treatment tools by understanding and using these patterns to work with your clients and students.  Patterns in movement are acquired and developed through experience. Bartenieff spoke of "muscling through a sequence." Vladimir Janda spoke of "trick" movements. Both these phrases refer to substitutions made by the mover in place of good motoric patterns. In Essential Movement Patterns you will learn to recognize and correct those patterns used uniquely by humans in their bipedal stance and movement. Learn exercises you can teach to facilitate and maintain patterns, including your own. Build your professional assessment skills and treatment tools by understanding and using these patterns to work with your clients and students.

Dates and Times:
Saturday, June 25th; 10 - 6pm; NYC
Sunday, June 26th: 10 - 6pm;NYC
(14 hours towards ISMETA certification)

Location: SITI Studios; 520 Eighth Avenue, 310, New York City 10018

Costs of June Workshop:
Nonmembers  $575; Members $500 (Single Workshop)

Registration Deadline is May 1, 2011.
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Postural Muscle Assessment, Manual Stretching and Ergonomics

Faculty: Dianne Woodruff (Scroll down for more on our faculty)

Course Description:  Our muscles do not all behave in the same way. Some are naturally tighter than others and tend to dominate their opposing muscles. By understanding these relationships you can identify the tensions, restrictions and disconnections that create poor posture and faulty function. You can solve problems in Fundamentals practice. A good forward pelvic shift, for example depends on normal range of motion in the hip flexor group.

Bartenieff knew her anatomy and biomechanics well. In this course you will review your anatomy and build your assessment tools. You will learn how to manually assess, stretch and self-stretch each of 18 muscle groups, to grade and record your findings. Learn how to move another person's limbs and torso with care, attention and intelligence using correct ergonomic positioning. This is a rich survey of the whole body and it's principle range of motion issues.

Dates and Times:
Friday, November 19th, 10 - 6pm; SITI Studios
Saturday, November 20th, 10 - 6pm DANY; Studio 7
(14 hours towards ISMETA certification)

Location: SITI Studios is on the same floor as the LIMS® office. 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor; NYC 10018.  DANY Studios are on 305 West 38th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues.

Cost of November Workshops:
Nonmembers $1060; Members $960 (Both workshops)
Nonmembers $  575; Members $500 (Single Workshop)

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Where Body-Mind Centering® and LMA meet: Developmental and Physiological Inroads from Dynamic Embodiment™ for Individualizing Sessions

Faculty:  Trisha Bauman and Martha Eddy (Scroll down for more on our faculty)

Course Description:  This course introduces techniques for using Effort, Shape and Developmental Movement to address physiological change through hands-on re-patterning in clinical applications.  Focusing on the whole person, participants will learn how experiences, beliefs and feelings appear in movement, to explore the interface between LMA/BF and the languages of anatomy, physiology and the developmental movement patterns underneath physical expression, and how to respond with hands-on re-patterning to support healing.

        Specific topics in this workshop will include:

• Translating  Effort and Shape observations into practical work towards the client’s goals.
  
• The physiological underpinnings of Effort (Martha Eddy’s groundbreaking work correlating BMC and LMA/BF).
• Introduce emotional issues relating to trauma, body image, illness and disease.  

Techniques for helping clients in clinical application with specific conditions or populations, for supporting change in clients and how to  motivate them to help themselves will be taught. In addition, the topics of intervention ethics, when to refer, the scope of practice of the CMA/RSMT and issues within marketing and managing a practice will also be addressed.      

Dates and Times:
Sunday, November 21st; 10 - 6pm; DANY; Studio 7
Monday, November 22nd: 10 - 6pm; SITI Studio
(14 hours towards ISMETA certification)

Location: SITI Studios is on the same floor as the LIMS® office. 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor; NYC 10018.  DANY Studio are on 305 West 38th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues.

Costs of November Workshops:
Nonmembers $1060; Members $960 (Both workshops)
Nonmembers $  575; Members $500 (Single Workshop)
Download Registration Form Here

Goal of this program:

To prepare the CMA to become a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist through ISMETA by:

·       Presenting BF/LMA as a methodology/approach to address individual needs

·       Developing professional practice skills in hands-on work

·       Training participants to establish a thriving client-based practice

The BF/LMA methodology addresses the potential of the whole person, with entrance points through the mind/body/movement. Each person’s movement comes from experiences, beliefs, feelings, and history, and can be impacted by many health issues.  

This new workshop series will teach you to perceive more clearly how personal history, beliefs and feelings appear in movement, and will teach you skills for responding to individual movement expression in support of healing and growth.   In addressing the holding and release of tissues as well as the individual movement patterns that reflect how we orient towards and engage with the environment, we constantly return to the whole body and whole person -– the connections in the body, changes of attitude (Effort), pathways (Space) and relationship (Shape) of the body. You also will learn hands-on techniques integrating in-depth knowledge of anatomy, physiology, dynamic alignment and dynamic stretching.  Learn how movement re-patterning works differently than “exercise” or "adjustments" through the understanding and use of LMA/BF principles for strengthening/coordination/balance and their effect on whole-body movement patterning and physiology.

The application of Bartenieff Fundamentalstm to medical and therapeutic settings wil be included, as well as the new insights of the top experts pioneering this profound work.

LIMS® FACULTY

Faculty for November 19-20: Postural Muscle Assessment, Manual Stretching and Ergonomics AND January 8 & 9 2011:  Essential Movement Patterns: Assessment, Intervention, Activation, Coordination, Balance

Dianne L. Woodruff, CMA, PhD has been teaching for 35 years and has been a movement and myofascial pain specialist for much of that time. She holds a doctorate in Somatic Education. Her dissertation on Bartenieff Fundamentals and her study of the work of Bartenieff, Laban and Dr. Vladimir Janda forms the basis of her clinical work and her fitness approach, 3-D Workout™. A Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA), she is passionate about people becoming and staying well through better use of their bodies. Dr. Woodruff is based in Oakville, Ontario where she teaches and works privately with clients. www.body-in-motion.com

Faculty for November 21-22: Where Body-Mind Centering® and LMA meet: Developmental and Physiological Inroads from Dynamic Embodiment^TM for Individualizing Sessions

Trisha Bauman, CMA, RSMT and Body-Mind Centering Practitioner, is on the core faculty of the LIMS and DE-SMTT certificate programs (NYC), and on the guest faculty for Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies Canada and Eurolab.  She has worked as a Movement Therapist at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires and has maintained a private practice since 1993.

An internationally renown performer, Bauman performs currently with French choreographer/director Herman Diephuis, has danced in the NYC companies of RoseAnne Spradlin and Vicky Shick, and in the French companies of Daniel Larrieu (Centre Choregraphique National de Tours), Mathilde Monnier (Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier), Alain Buffard and Cecile Proust.  A popular guest artist/teacher, she is invited around the world to teach, lecture and coach within international dance, theater and somatic research.

Martha Eddy, CMA, RSMT, Ed.D. is the founder and director of Dynamic Embodiment Somatic Movement Therapy Training (DE-SMTT) a uniquesynthesis of LMA/BF and BMC, ISMETA approved training since 1992. The program is linked to SUNY-Empire State College's Master's program inLiberal Arts and the International University of Professional Studies.  www.MovingOnCenter.org/DynamicSMTT Martha has taught for LIMS since 1982 when she was an assistant to Irmgard Bartenieff and Fran Parker.  She has been on the faculty of the School for BMC since 1984, mostly teaching guest classes now. She specializes in the psychophysical continuum across the lifespan integrating spiritual and holistic health concepts. Her passions are babies, dance, conflict resolution, cancer care, and clarity of vision all using a somatic awareness.

Faculty for May 13-15th: The Bartenieff Approach to Fascia Through Movement

John Chanik and Jackie Hand have worked together since 1991 and for 13 years exchanged Connective Tissue Therapy weekly. They have collaborated on many projects, classes and workshops including a presentation, Irmgard Bartenieff’s Connective Tissue Therapy and Bartenieff Fundamentals/Laban Movement Analysis: An Integrated Modality for Effective Change at the 2006 Motus Humanus Conference, at Mt Madonna Center, Watsonville, CA.

John Chanik has always used the illuminating lens of BF/LMA for his teaching, private practice and continuous learning since his certification in BF/LMA in 1987.  John has taught in the LIMS® Certificate Programs since 1991 and he maintains a private practice in therapeutic movement/ fitness and Connective Tissue Therapy.  John has also taught in Connective Tissue trainings with Theresa Lamb and in Martha Eddy's Dynamic Embodiment/ Somatic Movement Therapy programs.  "Movement is never 'wrong"; it's about finding the best movement for the present time.
 

Jackie Hand  (BFA in dance from OSU, MA in dance, U. Oregon) trained in Connective Tissue Therapy with Theresa Lamb in 1983 and assisted Theresa in her small and intense Connective Tissue Therapy trainings from 1992 -1996. Theresa learned from Irmgard Bartenieff, who with her students and clients applied her own “Correctives” to the work of Elisabeth Dicke, Bindegewebssmassage, as Connective Tissue Treatments. Jackie as an Associate Practitioner at Willa Needler’s Body Learning, New Haven CT, from 1996-2005, was also faculty there in a Connective Tissue Techniques Introductory Workshop in 1999.

Through the years Jackie has enhanced her understanding the body, particularly of the fascia, neuromuscular, skeletal and lymph systems. She is certified by the National Certificate Board in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, and by ISMETA as an RSMT and RSME. Since 2000, Jackie has integrated the Upledger Institute, Inc.’s CranioSacral Therapy (CST) into her successful movement reeducation and Connective Tissue practice.  She passed the CST Techniques exam with a 99% to become a CranioSacral Therapist in 2009 and is also a Certified Teaching Assistant, having assisted over 30 CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release classes.  In private practice since 1984, Jackie has continued to grow in experience through the information and problems brought to her by her clients and students. She is known for her observation, bodywork and teaching skills.  For more about Jackie, go <http://www.embodyment-itm.com > or http://www.iahp.com/JackieHand/.

Rachelle Palnick Tsachor, CMA, RSMT, is the coordinator for LIMS® continuing education program for CMAs, and faculty in the modular training program.  She teaches at the University of Iowa, where she offers Movement for Performers, an interdisciplinary class for musicians, dancers and actors , as well as Intro to Laban Movement Studies and Intro to the Alexander Technique for the Division of the Performing Arts. Tsachor earned her B.F.A. in Dance at the Juilliard School and her Masters in Dance/Movement Research and Reconstruction at the City College of New York, where she also completed her Reconstructor and Advanced Notator training. As a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, she has been invited to give workshops and presentations in such diverse areas as Optimal Performance, Non-Verbal Communication, Kinesiology, Movement notations, Physical Characterization and Early Dance & Movement at conferences in Berkeley, Chicago, Ottawa, New York City, San Antonio, Jerusalem and Haifa in Israel, and Ghent, Belgium.

A Registered Somatic Movement Therapist since 2000, and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, Tsachor works in the Iowa City area as a movement therapist and educator. She was board certified by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and is a certified member of the Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals, Alexander Technique International and the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association and is a member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators.