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8 Shades of Play 4 - The Explorer/ The Artist

Eight Shades of Play

Lighten Up! It’s time to get serious about Play! Play is the ultimate portal to learning for kids and grownups. . We all have signature play styles developed in childhood, but as an adult, you can add to your repertoire.

Week 4 - Find the fun in two new flavors. The Explorer is drawn forward by her fascination and curiosity. The Artists draws inward to full outward self expression. Embody these paths to fun through the classic 3-way hip lesson: expand your body, your mind and your intentions.

Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here

LessonsJacki KatzmanApril 18, 20228 shades of play, play, 3 way hip, explorer, artist

8 Shades of Play - 3 - The Competitor / The Storyteller

Eight Shades of Play

Lighten Up! It’s time to get serious about Play! Play is the ultimate portal to learning for kids and grownups. . We all have signature play styles developed in childhood, but as an adult, you can add to your repertoire.

Week 3 - Find the fun in two new flavors. One path to creativity is to create a focused, structured space through the mindset of the Competitor, and then open up in that space to the mind of the Story Teller. The “Bell Hand” lesson is the container for this Competitor/Story Teller exploration.

Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here

LessonsJacki KatzmanApril 11, 20228 shades of play, competitor, storyteller, bell hand

8 Shades of Play - 2 - The Director / The Collector

Eight Shades of Play

Lighten Up! It’s time to get serious about Play! Play is the ultimate portal to learning for kids and grownups. . We all have signature play styles developed in childhood, but as an adult, you can add to your repertoire.

Week 2 - Find the fun in two new flavors. Be the leader of the pack (the director) and search out all the variations (the collector). Infinity hips, hula hips, figure 8s, dual clocks - all descriptions of a delightful lesson to get your hips going.

Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here

LessonsJacki KatzmanApril 10, 20228 shades of play, dual pelvic clock, director, collector

Liberating Your Jaw with Your Voice - 6 - Right Down the Line (Feat. Bonnie Raitt)

Last in this series. The classic “Spine Like a Chain” lesson, with singing. Find the blocks, cracks, blind spots and kinks, and heal them with song.

Liberating Your Jaw With Your Voice - 5 - Floor to Core (feat. Angelique Kidjo)

More Pelvic Floor - 5 - Core Values - Breathing, punching and kicking freely because the pelvis is working effectively. This simple lesson will

Liberating Your Jaw with Your Voice - 4 - Deep Diaphragm Breathing (Feat. Lizzo and Meghan Trainor)

A return to quadrant breathing, with an emphasis on the diaphragm and voice-o-meter. Inspired by Meghan Trainor and Lizzo.

LessonsJacki KatzmanNovember 4, 2021liberating your jaw with your voice, voice, lizzo, quadrant breathing

Liberating Your Jaw with Your Voice - 3 - Using Your Voice-O-Meter To Release Your Neck (feat. Bueno Vista Social Club)

Use your voice as a sensor and feedback mechanism to find and release neck and jaw tension. The masters of the Buena Vista Social Club demonstrate…

Liberating Your Jaw With Your Voice - 2 - Inhale Like Audrey, Exhale Like The Queen

“Liberating Your Neck and Jaw” meets “Listening With Your Whole Body”, on “Moon River.” Audrey and Aretha are our guides to filling the lungs, quadrant by quadrant, and releasing, for power and beauty.

Liberating Your Jaw With Your Voice - 1 - Balance It Like the Queen

The lesson goes upright to bring the series into the practical: balancing the head in perfectly while letting your heart ring true.

Liberating Your Neck and Jaw - 3 - Arch and Open

Liberating Your Neck and Jaw - 3 - Arch and round the back as a wave; coordinate eyes, head and jaw for even more fluid moves.

Liberating Your Neck and Jaw - 2 - Side Slide Into the Ribs

Liberating Your Neck and Jaw 2 - Side Sliding Right Into the Ribs - experimenting with how the alignment of the jaw side-to-side can affect whole body balance.

LessonsJacki KatzmanSeptember 28, 2021liberating your neck and jaw, ribs, side sliding, david zemach-berson, jaw, Ribs

Orchestra and Balcony - 5 - I'm Ready for my Closeup

It’s a wrap - get ready for your close up with a lesson that brings it all together, from hips to tips to lips.

Liberate Your Mouth and Jaw - 6 Weeks of Mouth and Jaw Relaxation

Liberate your neck and jaw. These 6 lessons, designed by master Feldenkrais Teacher David Zemach-Berson, will help interrupt the common habits of muscular tension that cause chronic contraction of the muscles of the mouth, jaw, eyes, and brow.

LessonsJacki KatzmanAugust 31, 2021liberate your mouth and jaw, david zemach-berson, tmj

Orchestra and Balcony - 4 - Carry it Like Audrey

Perfectly horizontal clavicles, shoulder blades like saris flowing to the floor: use your breath to carry it like Audrey.

LessonsJacki KatzmanAugust 23, 2021orchestra and balcony, audrey, quadrant breathing, sabrina

Orchestra and Balcony - 3 - You Know How to Whistle, Steve, Don't You?

You put your lips together and blow. But, to get there, spend some time with a cork and a “Pelvic Floor” series Awareness Through Movement® lestson.

Orchestra and Balcony - 2 - Lift and Separate - Gliding Ribs Front and Back, plus a Shoulder Blade Detour

Orchestra and Balcony 2 - from the pelvic floor and core up to lithe ribs and shoulders. With last week’s lesson, the key to chest circles, twists, rotations and all the upper body flex power.

LessonsJacki KatzmanAugust 10, 2021orchestra and balcony, ribs, belly dance, shakira, gentle fingers

More Pelvic Floor - Integration - Orchestra and Balcony 1 - Side-sliding Ribs

Coordinating the pelvic floor (orchestra) and upper ribs (balcony) - what they want is what you see. A side-lying lesson bringing together the whole torso.