How We Move In Everyday Life
a weekend movement workshop
with Isolde Specka and Giovanni FelicioniLondon
June 19 and 20
Saturday 13:00 to 18:00
Sunday 13:00 to 18:00
The workshop costs £80
please let me have your non-refundable deposit of £30 by April 15 and full payment by June 1.
Rainbow Nursery,
St Benets Church Hall
Lupton Street
NW5 2HY
Nearest Tube, Tufnell Park. See map.
Entrance is to the left of the main church building come in through the iron gate and follow the path with the garden to your left.
"Normal Function can be the base for all kinds of movement. It doesn't matter so much what you are doing, but how you do it . . . The most important criteria for normal function is the perception, that it is not you, who is moving, but that movement is happening." . . . Hans Flury
"There is no lie in the body. It is common to see people who look really aligned, but who are unconsciously using (sleeve) muscles to maintain their alignment. If you can get people, through movement work, out of using (sleeve) muscles just to stand up or to cope with gravity; . . . if you can get them to find their inner integrity, a connection between upward and downward movement." . . . Hubert Godard
Our life and our world are rich and meaningful because we move in them and as we move we become interested in the world around us.
This workshop will explore how the ordinary movements of your day -- standing, sitting, lying down, getting up, walking, running, reaching, pushing, grasping, lifting, turning and so on -- can lead to strain or well being.
How economical, autonomous and efficient is the way we walk up stairs or sit to type an email? What catches? What prevents? Where is the perceptual glue that causes us to continue moving in ways that are not comfortable? How can we help ourselves and how can the changing world help us to move with greater clarity and ease.
These are the kinds of questions that you will explore alone and with others. The aim of the workshop is not to answer these questions but to move with them and to make space for each of us to be able to find meaning in the insights and discoveries that might arise.
With this in mind the workshop will be a time of enquiry based not on doing "movements" proposed to you but of opening embodied explorations around themes that have to do with movement in our everyday living and we hope that you will find the work to be practical and useful in your daily lives.
We both trained as Rolfers at the same time over a decade ago and though our research has lead down different paths we share a common interest in the beautiful ordinariness of moving in our changing world.
The "Normal Function" work of Hans Flury has been a guiding reference for Isolde and the "Tonic Function" work of Hubert Godard has been the same for Giovanni. These two rivers of information and research will form the theoretical and practical underpinning of our time together.
"I am in the space and the space is in me . . . The space is in the body and the body is in the space . . . When you change something in the body, the concrete body of somebody, you change his or her way of perceiving the space . . . Very often we keep working on the body and we forget to work on the space . . . Space, not place, is an imaginary space of action . . . The way I am building my imaginary space affects my body" . . . Hubert Godard
"Human movement is never 'natural' like animal movement, but always 'cultural' " . . . Hans Flury
Isolde Specka, Certified Rolfer
I am 49 years old. After university - where I studied education, philosophy and German literature - I worked for 12 years for an organization of the protestant church. On a national level I organized and carried out courses/trainings for people who worked themselves with youth-groups.
1996 I first got in touch with Rolfing®. 1998/99 I completed my training as a Certified Rolfer? in Munich.
Since 2001 I am a licenced member of the Swiss Society for Structural Integration (SGSI). 2002 I started teaching Normal Function.
2004 I moved from Wuppertal to Mannheim, close to where my roots are, the Palatinate in the southwest of Germany.