Flexible Relief
One workshop with audio and one clinic
These lessons offer flexibility, balance, efficient movement and pleasure, all rolled into one. They are for active people who are starting to feel their bodies changing - maybe shoulders are tighter after desk work, the back protests after weekend projects, or you're just not moving with the same ease you once did. Carie's underlying principle is to awaken your own inner teacher and students are deeply satisfied by the transformations that they themselves bring about.
What to expect
1. Pelvic Ease and Power
Your pelvis has the second-largest collection of receptors, after your feet. These receptors send signals about weight-bearing and muscle work. Why so many in the hips? Because when you walk, the hips and the feet need to communicate about how you are propelling yourself forward. When you sit, those receptors carry messages about how you are distributing your weight, which in turn affects your entire spine, neck, head, eyes. But it is possible your brain got bored with all this and forgot to update its pelvis maps as you have changed physically and in your daily routines. It might have stopped updating. In this class, you’ll refresh those maps and reclaim your pelvic ease and power. And you may even find yourself changing your daily routines, not from will-power but from spontaneous delight in your new abilities.
2. Support and Ease for Your Neck: Insights Your Other Teachers Never Got Close To
The key to these lessons is not to change habits--habits are useful!--but rather to tease the habits into allowing a little space for a few more options. To awaken your brain from its tired old neck habits, but to reassure them with a gentle, slow approach. Habits relax when they feel the support, and these classes are as much about supporting the underlying causes for your possible neck tension as they are about suggesting new options for movement.
Necks can collect a lot of habits. In this class, you’ll explore the why of those habits. For instance, does your shoulder girdle support the neck? Is the hyoid supple? Is your breath versatile? Most importantly, is this, now, how you want to organize yourself? It isn’t that the class ‘fixes’ the shoulder girdle or hyoid or breath. Nor the habits, for that matter. It is that you become aware of a wider repertoire of neck-supporting possibilities and from there you choose the organization you want.