CLASS
Feet are Fundamental: Spirals and Diaphragms
Babies Project | 15 W. 26th St., 10th floor New York, NY 10010
October 19, 2019
9 am – 5:30 pm
$180 ($160 for BP Members)
The bones and ligaments of our feet form a spiral that offers a dynamic pathway for weight and force between our body and the earth. With the support of our muscles the feet can adapt and respond to all kinds of surfaces, and create movements that travel through our whole body.
In this one-day workshop we will explore:
- the bones and joints of the foot and how they move,
- the ‘heel foot’ and ‘ankle foot’ model,
- the layers of intrinsic and extrinsic muscles in the foot,
- three-dimensional movements of the foot and ankle using PNF patterns, and
- a spiral pathway of weight through the feet that helps the feet act as a diaphragm that can support the pelvic floor and other diaphragms in the body.
This workshop is for anyone with questions about balance and grounding, and anyone interested in learning more about their feet. No previous experience with anatomy is necessary.
SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 19, 9:30am-12:30pm & 2-5pm
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).