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Finding Wisdom for Your Walk: Focus on Your Body and Get More From Your Walks Workshop with Liza Weaver Brickey
In this workshop, you will explore your relationship to the ground and what makes for a better uprightness.
Saturday, December 5, 9:00am-12:30pm, including a vegetarian potluck
Laguna Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Suitable for adults 18 years and up. $35. Pre-registration required: http://www.lagunafoundation.org/laguna_walks_classes.shtml
The physical wisdom that you bring to your walk colors the experience and insight you gain from every step. If you wake up in the morning with a body that is cranky, it is hard to imagine that your walk will give you a mystical experience, release yesterday’s baggage, a satisfying conversation with a friend, or even a brisk start to your day. Your body has the inherent ability to take care of you. But, sometimes it’s difficult to understand how your body speaks. Learning to pay attention to the language of your body can open new possibilities for moving without pain, with speed that does not damage you, with enough breath to walk and talk at the same time, and without such a heavy load of baggage.
In 2.5 hours, you will explore your relationship to the ground and what makes for a better uprightness. You will begin to experience the difference between your two feet and their relationship to the earth, and the importance of your heel in walking. Also, there will be attention directed toward how breath and the carriage of your head and neck are a part of every step. Awareness of how you move is the doorway to what it means to “get more from your walk.”
Liza Weaver Brickey is a Feldenkrais practitioner who studied with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais and has her own practice in Sebastopol. She is the founder of Sunrisewalkers, a group of people who regularly walk the Laguna de Santa Rosa trail. Having been diagnosed with advanced arthritis in both hip joints 10 years ago, Liza used the Feldenkrais techniques and method of bringing awareness to the body and now walks the 2-mile Laguna trail with ease and grace, does yoga, travels and hikes. She has a passion for sharing these tools with others for better ways of moving and alignment.
For more information, see www.lagunafoundation.org
Or contact Anita Smith, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation
(707) 527-9277 x 110, anita@lagunafoundation.org
