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Wild about Gait for Wild Human Potential: Participant Comments

15 Mar

Together, Carol and Cynthia are infinity and beyond; Buzz Lightyears and beyond; This workshop is the Hitchhikers Guide to Gait.

Leslie Renquist Hughes
Advanced Rolfer
Grand Junction, CO

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I so enjoyed the taking one function--gait--and covering the parts so thoroughly that I actually get it!  I feel smart, for once in a Feldenkraish-ish workshop. I will be able to USE this material!!!  Thank you for being so technical without resorting to language that loses me.  For keeping it somatic yet giving my mind so much to run with. For teaching so well, both of you, with such neutral expressions of personality. I am so grateful.

 

Please know how grateful I am for your work, and your willingness to travel here to teach. This workshop will have a tremendous impact on my movement health, and on how efficiently I can help my Bowen clients stand & walk more fully into their lives. Extraordinarily, powerful experience.

Colette Claude
Bowen Therapist
Prescott, AZ 

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Wow, so, so much put together to create this workshop. I loved the somatics. I can use this material in my place of work, long term care.
 

Susy Boge, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist
Benson, AZ

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This workshop was amazing on so many levels.  Re-educating my body's gait pattern with Carol and Cynthia's expert guidance has changed the way I walk, move, and the way I teach as my studio.  My Pilates, Yoga and Gyrotonic clients have reaped the benefits from the knowledge I gained taking this workshop starting the very next day!  Every day I am reminded that no matter the exercise discipline, proper walking gait and stance allows for the greatest exploration of your movement self. 

Miriam Resnick, CPT, RYT
Mindful Movement Studio
Indianapolis, Indiana

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I'm even more impressed 2 months after the gait workshop.  The perceived benefits mentally , physically, emotionally and spiritually continue to operate in my daily life. Especially helpful was the model of a "dive" downwards in preparation for a jump upwards and outwards, i.e. to a higher place.  And in fact, I did take a dive and have jumped to a more integrated actualized version of myself.  I felt and still feel totally supported by the teachers and the group in my own process.  Tt's remarkable to feel so safe and intimate with others without feeling crowded.

Thank you, thank you, Integrative Learning Center, and my dear Bones mentor Cynthia, and Carol!

Bonnie Angelie, R.N., GCFP
Registered Nurse and Feldenkrais Practitioner
Tucson, AZ

 

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Keep being brilliant!

 

Jeanne Hills, PT, OCS, GCFP
Physical Therapist and Feldenkrais Practitioner
Phoenix, AZ

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I learned movements that are facilitating increased healing in my neck & shoulders.

Anne M. Andrews, LMT, BFLT
Licensed Massage Therapist and Bones for Life Teacher
Alachua, FL

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Fabulous course! Very organized. Materials excellent. Content outstanding. Clear presentation and time for review. Great balance between left and right brain learning.  All yielding a new definition and understanding of human gait.
Anonymous

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This course was circumfential--encompasses use of the entire body & soul for promoting self-empowerment with ambulation.
Thank you for your energy, excitement and style of teaching. Your focus and energy helped me get through the difficult moments.
Lisa Haggitt, DPT
Physical Therapist
Ann Arbor, MI
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…truly a 'transformative experience', even in the following weeks and months after.

 

The workshop helped me bridge that great mental chasm that had previously existed between me and what I viewed as the rest of the 'normal gaiters' of the world.

Kathleen Everhart,
Indianapolis, IN

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a NEW look at old issues

Joy Shelnutt,
Feldenkrais Practitioner
Greensboro, NC

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I appreciate both of your great enthusiam for what you are doing.  I liked the variety. The structure of the class supported all of my learning styles. Thank you for a great, informative course.

Jennifer Rowley, PT, LMT, GCFP,
Physical Therapist, Massage Therapist, and Feldenkrais Practitioner
Birmingham, AL

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What a wonder(-filled), experiential journey of self discovery. I have unlocked areas in my body I wasn't aware I had. You have dramatically impacted my personal and professional growth. Thank you for taking me on this wonderful journey.

Roy Adams, PT OCS,
Physical Therapist
Portland, IN

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It was a good challenge for me, moving from typical student to more physical learning to interacting with other people and still being responsible for my own learning. The modeling of the instructors in calling forth the compassionate reflex was very key to my own growth and comfort.

Kate Kern,
Visual Artist
Cincinnati, OH
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Very valuable material.  Creativity, solid content.  Carol and Cynthia are a nice tag-team teaching style that includes humor and disclosure. Thank you, thank you, thank you.  A wonderful experience. A great learning. 

Donna Lilley, PT, GCFP,
Physical Therapist and Feldenkrais Practitioner
Cincinnati, OH
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What a lovely adventure this has been. Love the location, gentleness, diversity and caring of the group.  3 days are just right. 

 

I have taken Gait more than once.  Each time I learn some surprising things about myself and reap many benefits from attending. Each time is different and a continuing adventure. I look forward to taking the Gait workshop whenever possible.

Susan Yurchuck
Ft.Thomas, Ky

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I enjoyed the structure of lecture, practice, and experience. Wonderful class with excellent input from two different instructors with their own presentation of unified information giving you two chances to have that "aha" moment.

Kate Weston, DPT
Physical Therapist
Ann Arbor, MI

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As a dual credentialed clinician it is rare to attend a workshop that I can put into next day practice, but this course most definitely fit the bill. I immediately used the lessons and activities with my PT and Feldenkrais clients. Not only was this course a benefit to my clinical practice but also to my o
wn personal growth. Thanks always,
Kathy White, PT, MPT, GCFP
Physical Therapist and Feldenkrais Practitioner
Knoxville, TN

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I reclaimed a relationship with my mid ribs.  I feel stacked from the bottom of my stance leg, supported and ready to lift my swing leg to transfer again.

I appreciate so much that you have take the skills from Bones for Life and Feldenkrais and just who both of you are and applied them such a bais function which I agree is essential in our human development at all ages. I feel like I can now apply this to all ages of people who come for a number of different situations.

Penny Neu
Feldenkrais Practitioner
Phoenix, AZ

 

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Personally -  
I noticed my usual stance was with my legs wide apart, bracing myself against the world.
Each day, as I "walked the line", I became more aligned,  within myself.   I noticed my stance narrowing, opening my midline, broadening my awareness, gently softening myself to the world....

Professionally - 
As an acupuncturist and  craniosacral therapist I have learned to feel restrictions in my clients lying on the table....during the class, I learned to see those restrictions and how they affect movement and gait...I gained an appreciation of how structural balancing and aligning leads to greater vitality and self expression...balancing the qi, revitalizing the life force energy, opening the midline to the breath of life.

Integrating - 
I could feel/see how the VPLH is directly related to the Kidney meridian - starting at K 1, the roman sandle,the first point of the meridian, and moving up the medial aspect of the leg to the dantien, and all that it holds, before moving on and expressing outward to the rest of the body - there's a lot more to that story...
Mimi Tagher, Acupucturist
Florence. Kentucky

 

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