Designed with physical laborers and outdoor workers in mind, this workshop will encourage you to inhabit yourself with ease. Even while engaging in rigorous forms of work.
Over the course of two days, these lessons will focus on the action of moving towards and away from the ground, shifting weight, and the use of your hands. By the end of the workshop, you will have an expanded set of tools to use in your everyday life.
Participants can come for one or both days.
All bodies with any capacity for movement are welcome; modifications can be made as needed.
Feldenkrais Method® Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) classes create conditions to deepen an awareness of how you use yourself, and expand your potential for action. Each lesson is an invitation to slow down and to re-organize. It is an inquiry-based, verbally-guided process of gentle movement punctuated by pauses for integration. People have found the Feldenkrais Method a helpful tool to rehabilitate, reduce pain, and to improve both function and performance.
Meet The Facilitators
Liz O’Brien (they/them) is a dance artist, movement educator, and certified Feldenkrais Method Awareness Through Movement teacher currently living and teaching in western Massachusetts.
As a seasoned farmer, they are intimate with the physical wear and tear of a laborious outdoor profession and are passionate about supporting those they work with to access pleasurable and easy movement.
Liz's approach to teaching emphasizes playfulness and the development of a gentle relationship to your feeling, moving self. They believe that the capacity to ground towards our felt and embodied reality to be an important tool in working towards liberation—both of the self and collective.
In addition to teaching, Liz spends lots of time reading science fiction, dancing and playing capoeira, and cooking food with big flavors!
Shekinah-Glory Beepat (she/they) has been studying the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education since 2017. In addition to this work, she is a devoted student of Okinawan Karate, 5 Lines Fitness (a martial arts-derived, Feldenkrais Method-based system), and of Aikido.
Shekinah-Glory’s awareness training informs their approach to rigorous endeavors. This approach emphasizes earnest inquiry, organizing for efficiency, and the steady removal of parasitic efforts.
With a penchant for poetry, Shekinah-Glory’s teaching style encourages a deep slowing down, promotes personal autonomy, and invites the discipline of letting go.
An outdoors educator and budding urban gardener, Shekinah-Glory is often found befriending local shopkeepers, refining her Trinidadian cooking, or getting in the dirt with Red Fern Brooklyn.