CLASS

Amy Matthews

Babies Project | 15 W. 26th Street, 10th floor New York, NY 10010

6 sessions: Nov 13, Nov 20, Nov 27, Dec 4, Dec 11, Dec 18 Mondays 2-4pm

$210 for a 6-class card (member price $180)

PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) is an approach to movement education that incorporates very specific three-dimensional movement patterns to reveal our most familiar movement patterns – and the movements we don’t usually do. In these classes we will explore the details of the patterns, and see what happens when we engage with them as a movement practice. We will observe them in each other, and learn to use resistance to facilitate less familiar choices for ourselves and others. These patterns can be adapted for all levels of movement skill and ability, and no previous experience with PNF is needed.

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 co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling book Yoga Anatomy (published by Human Kinetics), and together Amy and Leslie led The Breathing Project’s Advanced Studies Program. Amy co-taught the BMC® & Yoga programs in NYC (with Roxlyn Moret) and in Berkeley, CA (with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen) for the School for Body-Mind Centering, and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for 10 years. She has taught embodied anatomy and movement workshops for programs in New York, Philadelphia, Florida, Nebraska, and Berkeley, CA in the USA, and internationally in Canada, Israel, Ireland, England, Slovakia, Switzerland and Japan. Amy also works privately as a yoga teacher and movement therapist, integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF). Amy is certified as a yoga teacher by Yoga Union and Heart of Yoga, and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner. She is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) and has been registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher). Amy has participated several times in Gil Hedley’s dissection workshops, and 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.

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