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Two New 5 Week Series: Beginner & Intermediate
Starting October 8th, 2024
EQUANIMITY: The quality of being calm.
It comes from the root ane which means “to breathe”.
Movement For Equanimity (MFE)
The link between stress, burn out and dissatisfaction looms large in modern life. When our emotions run high with threat our mind and body act out of survival. Moving mindfully with fascia focused movement can change our nervous system responses.
Intentionally moving with different fascia qualities such as plasticity or gliding, allows us to reset the physical/emotional holding patterns from stress. Stress triggers our fight, flight, freeze, collapse response showing up in our myofascial (muscle + fascia) structures as a tightening, restrictive motion or numbing of feeling. Numbing our sensations is how we disassociate from our bodies.
Fascia is rich with sensory receptors. These sensory receptors inform our perception because fascia and brain are linked with communication. Two key sensory receptors this class will develop is proprioception and interoception.
Proprioception gives us orientation to come into our bodies, enables coordination of movement, better postural and body alignment and is the gateway for grounding.
Interoception enables us to experience the quality of physical sensations and their effect on emotional states. You can sense and feel internally at the same time (felt-sense) and interpret sensory information. This allows us to know how we feel about the motion we are doing and ultimately guides what we perceive and how we adapt in a wellbeing-oriented way.
When we are overwhelmed (over-focused) or under-whelmed (under-focused) , we are out of balance. Managing stress through MFE redirects our system with calm breathing and mindful movement so we can reset.
Intentional fascia movement takes the architecture of our mind/body and can shift our nervous system by introducing new neuro-myofascial patterns to increase breathing capacity, build tensile strength, elasticity and plasticity. Instead of blocking out the sensations in the body, interoception increases self-awareness attuning to how the movement experience makes us feel.
Learning to simultaneously move with ease while reflecting on how we feel helps develop internal harmony physically, emotionally and mentally.
Judy Gantz, M.A., CMA.
is the Director and Founder of the Center for Movement Education and Research (CMER). She is an international movement specialist and teacher with a long academic career at UCLA in the department of Dance/World Arts & Cultures (1982-2005). Judy has taught Anatomy for dancers for over 30 years and has been working in the health and fitness industry since the 1980’s.
A certified Laban Movement Analyst, Judy has taught in Certification programs and continues to incorporate the principles of Irmgard Bartenieff’s Fundamentals/ movement connectivity in all her courses. Judy holds a Diploma as a teacher at an advanced level from Karin Gurtner’s Slings Myofascial training program and applies fascia movement to her personal development workshops as a means for self discovery and self regulation.
Judy teaches internationally sharing time in New Zealand and Europe with Eyebody founder Peter Grunwald. Her guest teaching includes the University of Limerick in Ireland, Seoul Korea, Moscow Russia, Beijing China, and throughout Germany and the USA. As a dancer, Judy values creativity and expression; and she leads with clarity, empathy and the power to invoke personal embodied exploration in others.
“I am interested in helping others discover the power and meaning that comes from living an embodied life. I firmly believe that conscious embodiment is the balance to 21st century technology. Dance is a source for integrating social/cultural awareness and emotional intelligence when guided with somatic awareness. It is vital to our humanity that we connect to the wisdom within our conscious bodies and become literate in the psychophysical aspects of movement”
There are two 5 week series offered, one for beginners (which includes those with interest in the Eyebody principles), the other an Intermediate class with more complex fascia movement sequences. If you have taken MFE classes before or have a Yoga or dance background you would be comfortable in the Intermediate class.
Take the whole series online in person (Zoom) or do by recordings and have access to Judy via email with any questions. Links to access class recordings will be made available at the conclusion of each class session. Any classes that are missed can be done via the recordings.
Dates :
10 Sessions. Dates shown are U.S. dates
October 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, 31
November 5, 7
Times:
9:30 am – 10:15 am PST
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm EST
18:30 – 19:15 European time CEST
Fee:
$120 USD via Paypal/Credit card
For non USA currency please use credit card on Paypal. Please contact us if there is a cost issue at [email protected]
To receive a flyer with more information on the Beginner series, email Judy Gantz
Intermediate: My Arms
Dates :
10 Sessions. Dates shown are U.S. dates
October 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, 31
November 5, 7
Times:
8:00 am – 9:00 am PST
11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
17:00 – 18:00 European time CEST
Fee:
$120 USD via Paypal/Credit card
For non USA currency please use credit card on Paypal. Please contact us if there is a cost issue at [email protected]
Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld interviews Judy Gantz about her work with the fascia. Judy skillfully blends anatomy and physiology with dance and movement. The fascia also plays an important role in the function of the eyes, so the topic of vision gets interwoven throughout.
Private consultations or instruction via Zoom can also be arranged.
For additional information, contact Judy directly via e-mail at:
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