EMBODIED ANATOMY: FEEL IT IN YOUR BONES A WEEKEND WITH AMY MATTHEWS

Instructor
Amy Matthews
Location

Yoga Now, held at OM Center 1216 Howard St #108, Omaha, NE 68102

Date and Time

January 17-19, 2020
Friday 6:30-9:30 pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm

Fee

$250.00

Description

Amy has been teaching this workshop in her hometown of Omaha since 2005 – it is an introduction to a experiential approach to anatomy and kinesiology, an inquiry into the relationship between anatomy and yoga, and a conversation about teaching as a practice.

No previous experience with anatomy or yoga is required, and the workshop is open to people outside of the Teacher Training program.

Intructor's Bio

Amy Matthews, CMA, IDME, BMC Teacher, RSMT/RSME has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a yoga therapist and yoga teacher.

Amy is the co-founder and co-director of Babies Project with Sarah Barnaby. Previously she was a director of The Breathing Project, and co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling book Yoga Anatomy (published by Human Kinetics).

Amy is a Program Director for the School for Body-Mind Centering, Educational Director of the SME Program for Moving Within in Oregon, and teaches on SME & IDME Programs in the US, Germany and Italy. She taught for four years with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen in Berkeley CA, and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for 10 years.

Amy has participated several times in Gil Hedley’s dissection workshops, and has studied kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd and BMC with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She has studied yoga with Alison West, Mark Whitwell, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner, and full-contact karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.

Amy is certified as a yoga teacher and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner, is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator and has been registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT. She teaches embodied anatomy and movement workshops for programs in the US and internationally, and works privately integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF).

Emails
spiralamy [at] embodiedasana [dot] com
info [at] doyoganow [dot] com