SCHOOL FOR BODY-MIND CENTERING® YOGA IMMERSION SERIES
Embodied Developmental Movement:
Effortless Clarity, Balance & Equilibrium; The Reflexes, Righting Reactions and Equilibrium Responses (RRR)
THIS NEW ONLINE MODULE is a combination of livestream and pre-recorded classes, designed to support your on going learning and integration. It includes unlimited lifetime access to the recordings, so you can move at your own pace, and enjoy practicing the classes as often as you like.
EIGHT LIVESTREAM CLASSES
Classes were originally presented on Zoom. They are interactive, with time for integration and questions. Each class explores and builds your knowledge of the RRR.
FIVE PRE-RECORDED YOGA CLASSES
Pre-recorded yoga classes support the RRR material presented in the livestream classes, and help to continue your embodied integration. They offer new ways to apply the material to yoga practice and teaching.
All classes are an active combination of presentation, movement exploration, principles of embodiment, and application to yoga practice and teaching. They draw from Body-Mind Centering® principles, including developmental movement, embodied anatomy and embryology. Classes are suitable for students from all streams of yoga and experience.
The Early Reflexes, Righting Reactions,
and Equilibrium Responses (RRR)
The Reflexes, Righting Reactions, and Equilibrium Responses (RRR) are the building blocks of human movement. Together they create effortless clarity and balance, and have a powerful influence on our lives. The reflexes are early patterns that establish our postural tone, relationship with gravity and space, and integrate the limbs with the spine. The righting reactions are important in establishing a vertical or upright posture with gravity, and a continuous head-torso axis. The equilibrium responses are patterns which maintain balance of the whole body in the dynamic relationship between the shifting of our center of weight through space, while establishing and maintaining our base of support. The RRR lead to a fuller three-dimensional sense of self. You will find them valuable for creating integrated patterns of movement in asana practice, and expanding your knowledge of building asanas and sequences from a developmental perspective. The RRR are important in injury prevention, and ways to alleviate them when they occur. 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.
THE EARLY REFLEXES establish our postural tone, relationship with gravity and space, integrate the spine, and the relationships between the limbs and spine. Some of the aspects of the early reflexes we will explore are: Whole body tone, physiological flexion and extension; head neck integration; tail head integration; thoracic mobility; lumbar and tail mobility; relationships between the head and the body; relationships between the pelvis and chest.
THE RIGHTING REACTIONS are more advanced patterns of movement that bring the head into vertical orientation in space, bring the head and torso into alignment with each other, and create a head to tail axis. Some of the aspects of the righting reactions we will explore are: Vertical uprightness, integrated head to tail axis, and rotation.
THE EQUILIBRIUM RESPONSES are patterns which maintain balance of the whole body in the dynamic relationship between the shifting of our center of weight through space, while establishing and maintaining our base of support. Some of the aspects of the equilibrium responses we will explore are: Gravity, equilibrium and balance; creating a supportive base under the center of the body; spatial orientation, and spatial support.
Exploring the RRR patterns of movement will bring clarity, effortlessness, balance, and equilibrium to your yoga practice. Classes will explore:
• Symmetry and asymmetry
• Spinal movement and extremity movement
• Sequencing from center to periphery and periphery to center
• Support proceeds movement
• Mobility underlying stability, and stability underlying mobility
• Initiation, sequence, and resolution
• The spatial aspects of movement
• Attention, intention, and action
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
- Zoom Link and Information For Livestream Class
- Livestream Class One & Two: Oral and Anal Rooting, Thoracic Mobility, Neck Mobility, Rolling, Amphibian, Galant, BOB, KNOB, Amphibian, ATNR, Hand To Mouth. (196:34)
- Additional Recorded Class Three: Righting Reactions: Head & Tail Righting (67:17)
- Additional Recorded Class Four: The Spine & Limbs: Landau Righting Reaction; Moro Reflex (55:43)
- Zoom Link and Information For Livestream Class
- Livestream Class One & Two: The Reflexes Of The Hands And Feet (183:05)
- Additional Recorded Class Three: Applying the Reflexes Of The Feet To Yoga Practice: Finding Support & Articulation From The Feet (85:41)
- Additional Recorded Class Four: Hand & Foot Reflexes: Growing Distal To Center Support; Building Integration As We Change Levels & Move Upwards (78:43)
- Document: PRIMITIVE REFLEXES, RIGHTING REACTIONS AND EQUILIBRIUM RESPONSES UNDERLYING NORMAL MOVEMENT AND ACTIVITIES
- Zoom Link and Information For Livestream Class
- Livestream Class One: Gravity Oriented Equilibrium Responses: Navel Yield, Protective Grounding, Protective Shifting, Protective Extension (145:14)
- Livestream Class Two: Spatially Oriented Equilibrium Responses: Spatial Reaching, Ankle Foot Response, Hand Wrist Response (80:12)
- Additional Recorded Class Three: Exploring Our Kinesphere, Equilibrium Spatial Responses Applied to Yoga (57:52)
- Document: Evaluating The Process Of The RRR In Your Self & Others
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