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Day 1 Monday, June 4, 2012

ATM: Supine, Spreading Quality of Lightness.
Feet Standing lifting fingers, and head
Discussion: Anxiety around segment

Small Groups: In groups of 2-4 interview one of the visitors in the room as if it were the beginning of a lesson.
Observations & demo: Stopping and starting a movement: ex. Sit to stand and to sit, to detail a person’s awareness.
Practice with a partner
LUNCH
Discussion: Questions on use/appropriateness of term “lesson”.
Demo:

DAY 2 Tuesday, 5th June

ATM: Rolling head and eyes Supine, Prone, Sitting and Walking. Global spreading of quality
Discussion:

Demo (with visitor) who had a hip replacement. Questions and observations and looking at timing. This is the beginning of the lesson and arising from a detail.

Practice: Continue lying supine and exploring giving sense of support through Right leg to return sense of connection.
Lunch
Demo: Finding spiral of femur into acetabulum in sitting with 1 cheek on the table and then supine with 1 leg standing working from behind greater trochanter.
Practice in groups of 2-3 with one sitting “one cheek”, one supine and (if 3) one prone as if to crawl.
Discussion on use of foot structure for arc, support and proprioception- push off

DAY 3 Wednesday, June 6

Practici and small group discussions
Lunch
Discussion arising from observations of lessons and yesterday’s demo: Foot position for ‘pushing thru’ as if standing on it.

DAY 4 Thursday, June 7

Practici and small group discussions
Lunch
Practici and Discussion arising from lessons. Working with pregnant women

DAY 5 Friday, June 8

Practici and small group discussions
Lunch
Demo: FI Strategies Side lying rolling pelvis
1- Sliding scapula by ‘pushing’ leg. Coming from other end so system is not tuned to protective process.
2- Connecting into hip joint from leg/foot
ATM: Five Winds Kata Intro

DAY 6 Monday, June 11

ATM: Perfecting Self-image
Practice & Demo: Refining lifting leg and pushing. Refinement of self-use. Use of rollers and pads
Lunch
Practice: Continuation of morning practice with more detail and exploration

DAY 7 Tuesday, June 12

ATM: Supine One Leg standing outside of other: Coming to Stand.
Sliding foot around leg and finding placement for support.
Practice & Demo: ‘Pushing through’ and gliding the heel. Using spiral image finding sense of connection through bones
Lunch
Practice: refining self-organization. Image of “driving” from floor through feet. Contact with the floor gives proprioceptive information for orientation and response to uneven surfaces.
Discussion and Demo

DAY 8 Wednesday, June 13

Practice and small group discussions
Lunch
Demo: Using a roller to link asymmetrical organization. Ex. A person with 1 leg more outwardly rotated – roll roller along legs to give the person information through the sensation. Can roll over top and under feet.
Practice:

DAY 9 Thursday, June 14

Practici and small group discussions
Lunch
Practici and discussions

DAY 10 Friday, June 15

Practici and small group discussions
Lunch
Discussion and practice

DAY 11 Monday, June 18

ATM: Cardinal Head Movements
Demo: How to become more proficient at organizing head ( especially at end of a lesson).
Lifting head and moving it in side-bending or translation s/s or up/down
Using observation
Supine: Using mastoid process as ‘landmark’. Touching you can sense where it is easiest to side-bend and from which vertebra they do this each side.
Why would head feel heavy when lifting?

Practice in pairs
LUNCH
Demo: Clarification of place of balance in hands for support and ease of sensing small movements of the head.
Demo: Having person on table interlace fingers under head and then raising their head in different directions. Using practitioner’s hands to raise head by having hands on their arms @ above elbows. Using both hands and one hand.
Using this to direct and engage them into rolling to sit.
Practice

DAY 12

Final practici and discussions

Lunch
Demo:
Observation: Person (Tina) turning while sitting with legs on table one front and one bent behind.
From where does she turn in spine on each side?
Which side does she sit to more easily?
Prone her head turns to same side she turns to more easily
Demo: Lifting head and turning prone
Placement of hands under cheekbones for support and balance
Demo: Clarifications of holding and moving head prone.
Sense of spirals in yourself can influence their pattern.

DAY13

ATM: Spinal ‘Serpent” Prone (Sliding Head, Nose, Chin toward elbow in 4 positions)
Discussion: Ethics
Demo: Looking at other orientations/positions to do same ATM lesson: Straddling a chair, kneeling over table.
Demo: Whiplash: Working from other end of muscles to avoid associations to pain. With Ahmis:

Practice and clarifications (with Sophia)
Lunch
Continuation of practice
Discussion of whiplash and interference with vestibular sense due to disturbance of cilia in inner ear.
Demo with Robert Z re: dizziness during practice. Calming system (otolithic apparatus)Holding under armpit to give support. Support and direction into legs and sit bones.

DAY 14

ATM: Rotating Hands
Discussion: Relationship if this ATM to yesterdays work. Connection into head and neck through other ends of muscles.
Details of arm movement and how this affects head and neck and back
Practice with partner: Sitting behind partner and sensing movement of scapula as they rotate.
Where is there most power for pushing and in support power as in pushups and ‘downward dog’
Demo: (Verdell) Supine. Turning hand from radius/ulna to slide scapula back and down and its effect on head. Rotation into joint and power through skeleton ( analogous to femur into acetabulum). Can use this prep. Movement for whiplash as it lays groundwork for head to lift and turn (from turning hand).

Sitting: Hand behind head and 1 on chin to glide/peck.
Lunch
Continuation of practice with sitting behind partner (also sitting) hands on chin and back of head for gliding and pecking.
Demo: Person sitting. Finding line from top of head to pelvis/sit bones and then SLOWLY coming off so person follows and lengthens.
Supine: “Wheeling” arm up and finding diagonal line from elbow/shoulder to opposite foot. On 1st rib finding diagonal connection to foot. Pushing back and forth on diagonals 1st rib to foot and both diagonals together. This can ‘free’ cervicals so you can begin to lift opposite side of head
•Hands under head lift and sense for direction up as person ‘pushes’ from opposite foot.
•To give him/her sense of support coming up under atlas.
Practice

DAY 15

ATM: Standing ATM Pivoting on Heel Arms at Shoulders Pivoting
Discussion: Use of stories In teaching
Practice: Reverse roles from yesterday’s practice “pushing through”
Demo: Clarifications (with Bill)
Supine foot standing and “pushing through” from L hip to R shoulder from under and into hip joint rather than ‘shearing’ roll. Importance of power from under through hip joint.
Sense of sequence of movement through
1- From arm/scapula a progressive wave from opposite hip joint
2- From 1st rib- progressive wave from opposite hip joint
3- Find balance of head
4- Push from head and pelvis
5 Push from 1 foot then other and then both feet.
Practice
Lunch
Discussion: Working part time and continuing to develop skills
Faces ATM: Emotions/feeling states note in face and reflections in body. (Face before you were born image)
Demo: Working with face. Following and supporting areas. Release of tone habitually carried in face and body.
Practice with partner

DAY 16 Last day

Introduction of guests
ATM: Supine to standing
Supine to sit, squat, stand and return
Circular
One leg standing on outer side of other leg and coming to stand
Video: FIs with Susie and Steve from during segment
ATM:
Farewells until Grad party

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