SCHOOL FOR BODY-MIND CENTERING® YOGA IMMERSION SERIES
Embodied Developmental Movement and the Skeletal System: A Dynamic Approach To Alignment and Sequencing
THE UPPER LIMBS
Dates: November 3, November 10, November 17, 2024
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am; 11:00am - 12:30pm EST/ USA
SIX LIVESTREAM CLASSES
Livestream classes are presented online via zoom, with time for discussion and questions. They are an active combination of presentation, movement exploration, principles of embodiment, and ways to apply the material.
Each live class is recorded and stored in your student account, with lifetime access. If you can’t make the live classes, you can follow the classes on your own timeline.
THREE RECORDED YOGA CLASSES
The recorded yoga classes support the material presented in the live classes and help to continue your embodied integration. They offer new ways to apply the material to yoga practice and teaching.
Each date includes two 1.5 hour (3 hours) of livestream classes, plus an additional 75 minute recorded yoga class to help further your integration of the material presented.
The Upper Limbs includes: six 1.5 hour livestream classes (9 hours), three 75 minute recorded yoga classes (4 hours), in a comprehensive 14 hours of embodied learning.
School For Body-Mind Centering® Yoga Immersion Series
Embodied Developmental Movement and the Skeletal System: A Dynamic Approach To Alignment and Sequencing
Exploring the Basic Neurocellular Patterns (BNP) creates a fuller three-dimensional sense of self. You will find them valuable in asana practice for creating integrated patterns of movement, and expanding your knowledge of building asanas and sequences from a developmental perspective.
The bones create our basic foundation, they lever us through space and support our weight in relationship with gravity. Integrating the BNP with the skeletal system supports clear articulate pathways and relationships between the spine and limbs, and freedom of the central axis.
In this series we will explore key skeletal principles of the upper limbs with the developmental patterns that support them, to bring greater clarity to the hands, wrists, forearms, elbows, and shoulder girdle.
Classes will focus on:
• New approaches to alignment and sequencing using Body-Mind Centering®principles .
• Greater depth of movement, ease, and flow in forming asanas.
• Discovering new sequential relationships between postures from a developmentaland skeletal perspective.
• Learning to recognize compensatory patterns, and ways to alleviate them when theyoccur.
Body-Mind Centering® principles applied to yoga expand our understanding and ability to embody, through which we can create a more unified life and practice for ourselves and others.
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR?
The principles and techniques learned in this course can be used for personal development and for professional enhancement. We recommended it for anyone interested in movement, dance, yoga, bodywork, somatic studies, education, meditation, and other body-mind disciplines.
No previous experience with BMC℠ or Yoga is necessary for this course.
"The Immersion series has deepened my understanding of natural movement and ways to integrate this into my yoga practice and teaching."
- Yoga Teacher, Boston MA
"Having unlimited access to the recordings is a valuable asset in integrating the material and experiences more deeply. " - Yoga Therapist and Teacher, France
Example Curriculum
- Livestream Class Recording 1 (92:56)
- Livestream Class Recording 2 (103:50)
- Additional Recorded Yoga Class #1 (98:55)
- Black & White PDF's: The Hand, Ribs
- Colored PDFs: Radius Ulna Rib Connections; Hand To Rib Connections; Radius Ulna Hand; Individual Fingers
- Fingers to Ribs Relationships
- Additional Recorded Yoga Class #2 (93:22)
- Lisa Clark EmbodiYoga® is licensed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and approved by the School for Body-Mind Centering® to offer the School For Body-Mind Centering® Yoga Immersion Series.
- Body-Mind Centering®, BMC®, are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.