CLASS

Ebb n' Flow Yoga
265 Main St., Northborough, MA 01532

May 19-20, 2018

$185 both days or $100 per day

The Spine: Embryology, Developmental Movement, and Dynamic Alignment
In these workshops we will explore the embryology of the spine and it's role in our earliest developmental patterns - and how it's fluid origins and many movement possibilities allow us to find a dynamic sense of alignment in any position.

​Saturday:
10am - 12pm
Asana class

​1:30 - 5pm
Embryology & Anatomy of the Spine: Our spine first begins as a fluid process that gradually develops it's own containment and structure. We will trace the embryological development of the spine from the primitive streak through the notochord to the intervertebral discs and vertebrae that we are born with, and will explore how a calm quiet spine can still be fluid, moveable and responsive.

Sunday:
10am - 1pm
Spinal Developmental Patterns: Our earliest vertebrate movement patterns are oriented around the movements of our head and tail, and development later progresses to add the limbs as support for the movement of the spine. We will explore the reflexes and developmental patterns that underlie our earliest movements as babies - rolling, flexing and extending, and side bending, and see where these patterns are still present as a support for our adult movements.

2:30 - 4:30pm
Things that Get Said: This is a chance to ask your own questions about things that get said in anatomy, asana and alignment. Amy will respond to your questions, talk about some commonly made statements about asana and anatomy (things like "straighten the spine to twist" or "keeping your knee over your ankle keeps it safe") and share her analysis of the underlying assumptions that are sometimes mistaken about how the body works.

and on Saturday night do a 'meet Amy/ SME Q&A' event

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).

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