Flexible Relief
One workshop with audio recording and one clinic per week.
Mondays, 10:00 am – 11:00 am | Fridays, 12:30 – 1:00 PM
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. Students are deeply satisfied by the transformations that they themselves bring about.
What to expect
These are examples of topics we might address within this series. The series is not limited to these topics.
1. Pelvic Ease and Power
Your pelvis has the second-largest collection of proprioceptors, 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 where you are in space and how you are propelling yourself forward. Sitting or standing, those hip receptors carry messages about how you are distributing your weight, which in turn affects your entire spine, neck, head, eyes—and, yes, mood. But it is possible your brain got bored and forgot to update its pelvic maps, even though 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 willpower but from spontaneous delight in your new abilities.
2. Support and Ease for Your Neck (and therefore everything else)
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.
And necks can collect a lot of habits! In this class, you’ll explore the ‘how nicely does this serve me’ 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. From there you choose the organization you want.