CLASS

Amy Matthews

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

November 18 & 19 2017 Saturday & Sunday 9:30am-5pm

$400 full price, $375 early registration (member price $375, early registration $350) Prerequisite: one year’s teaching experience, class size is limited to 15 students

Learning might be a process of finding different responses to stimuli – both in ourselves and in the environment. At birth and in our first years of life we have basic (and gradually more sophisticated) movement patterns that we develop, use and integrate to orient ourselves in relationship to gravity and space, to our caregivers and to our own body. In this workshop we will explore these layers of responsiveness in finding safety and comfort, and in exploring new possibilities. These weekends are open to teachers interested in exploring their embodiment and developing their teaching in this context. You can take the weekends individually and in any order. Each weekend has a topic from the fields of developmental movement, somatics, anatomy, kinesiology, physiology, and embryology, and includes lecture, discussion, movement and a teaching exploration. In addition to learning and experiencing the material, we’ll consider how deepening our own embodiment supports the practice of teaching.

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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