Walking into Dancing: Organic Movement for Health, Balance and Posture

With consecutive translation in Bulgarian during the workshop. 

In this course, we study and explore the fundamentals of walking and how this foundation leads us into effortless dance.  Understanding the functional anatomy of the feet gives us a foundation for our entire body.  Biomechanically aligned walking supports healthy spine and posture and is key to rehabilitating chronic pain conditions.   Biomechanically aligned walking massages our internal organs and supports heart, lung and digestive health.   This course is especially recommended for people who experience chronic pain in their body and want to move freely with joy again.

Walking is the foundation for dancing and an embodied metaphor for moving forward in life.  How you walk is how you feel about life!  Let’s investigate our metaphors for approaching challenges, deconstructing and deconstructing our mind-body patterns.

We will use:
- Somatic Movement
- Functional Anatomy
- Biomechanics of Movement
- Primal Movement Strategies

Workshop: Foot and Spine Fundamentals
January 18th: 11am-6pm (60 EUR)

Class 1: Releasing the Hip System
Tuesday Jan 20: 6pm-9pm (30 EUR)

Class 2: Weight shifting and Spinal Compensations
Thursday Jan 22nd: 6pm-9pm (30 EUR)

Class 3: Gait Phases: Swinging and Undulating
Friday Jan 23rd: 11am-2pm (30 EUR)

What to bring:
Wear comfortable clothes that will allow you to dance, many WARM layers, warm socks, blanket or yoga mat, notebook and any writing and drawing implements that you will like to use.

Course Instructor
Chrystabel Butler brings a wide range of experience to movement and dance.  She is a certified Integrative Psychotherapist, Dance Movement Therapist, with a Masters of Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Post Graduate Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy.  She has been leading workshops in Somatic Dance and Creative Psychotherapy since 2009.   She also provides personal movement coaching through authentic movement and rehabilitative modalities.  As a certified instructor for Yoga and Pilates since 2007, she has taught rehabilitative yoga and Pilates in Australia and Japan.  With a background in competitive gymnastics, she has pursued research and teaching in various somatic dance modalities.  She has taught Contact Improvisation in UK, Japan, Bulgaria, Egypt and Australia.  Engaged with intensive study of Axis Syllabus since 2014, passionate about approaching dance through an understanding of anatomy, physics and biomechanics, she currently leads classes and workshops in Axis Syllabus Inspired Movement and Dance.

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For questions you can write to the course leader at chrystabelbutlerpsychotherapy@gmail.com.