Upcoming workshops:
Dance influences include Hustle (partner dance from NYC) and Waving (from CA’s Bay area). No prior dance experience or ability required, The body awareness and intricacy of movement you’ve already felt through your hands is all you need. Let’s playfully build on that to include the whole of you and the client. There will be hands-on time during the workshop, to transition your Partner Dance skills into your table time.
Who can take this workshop:
Any practitioner who completed Cranial 1 or Beginning Biodynamic Massage with April Straus, Deborah Merkle, Monica Rudestam, Stacy Darby, or Todd Jackson.
Register: Click on Register above in the flier or on the link below, that will take you to a link for the payment by credit card. Or pay in full by check – send an email letting me know you would like to register and I will give you an address to send a check.
Registration is non – refundable
About Biodynamic Massage Therapy Course:
26 CEUs | maximum 10 students
Biodynamic Massage grows bodyworkers’ skills beyond treatment protocols and routines. Meet your clients fully in the present moment. Connect with quietude in the tissues as it shows you where to work, how long to stay, and when to move on. Give your clients the deeply felt experience of being touched, listened to at a profound new level. Bring a freshness and spontaneity to your practice that increases client retention and new referrals.
Biodynamic Massage allows the client’s own self-healing resources to guide the massage session. The practitioner palpates the client’s body, scanning for connective tissue densities and fascial patterning. A touch interface with these densities and patterns begins. This interface allows the inherent motility, the undulatory nature of these elements, to find a quiet, peaceful balance. These moments of quietude enable the client’s body to re-organize itself with improved health. As the body changes with the expression of health, it directs the practitioner’s hand placement and activity, delivering changes in pressure, contact and stroking pathway. The massage becomes guided by biodynamic quietude.
course highlights:
- 5 warm-up styles – go beyond simply warming up the physical tissues at the start of a session, and learn how to move your entire body in concert with the recipient’s system. in biodynamic massage, we practice in a way that helps the practitioner learn how to let go of their personal preferences to meet clients where they’re at, even during a simple warm-up
- density scanning – how to locate hypertonicities relevant to your clients’ requests. these access points allow us to build a bridge connecting biodynamic quietude to the physical tissues during massage. particularly helpful for clients seeking relief from musculo-skeletal issues.
- fascial following – feel how motility in fascia can guide repetitive strokes in addition accessing biodynamic quietude. helpful for clients who are more interested in a relaxing massage experience or improved integration between body, mind and emotions
- PVS attunement – pressure (P), vector (V), and surface area contact (S) become calilbrated at access points to elicit motility and catalyze biodynamic neutrals
- spatial placement – feel how motility literally physically moves the practitioner in space to the right place, so that PVS meets the needs of the client’s system. this is the beginning of a long term process of the practitioner letting themselves be physically guided when providing biodynamic massage
- treatment cycles – how to catalyze healing by facilitating the transition from motility to neutral to motility again in the tissues. treatment cycles deepen the access to biodynamic quietude, allowing us to witness the client’s own system healing itself
- standing evaluation – when the client is standing, before treatment begins, learn how to assess where resources are already gathered and working on their behalf, so you know where to massage to address their issues.
- quietude terminology – explore and understand the vocabulary used to convey how to sense and follow biodynamic quietude
- skill progression overview – learn how biodynamic massage looks and feels different as practitioner skill levels shift from beginning to intermediate to advanced.
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Donna Is offering a variety of ZOOM classes as you can see above. TO REGISTER FOR A ZOOM CLASS:
For HOUSE, SAMBA or POPPING – Send Venmo Payment $15 drop in to Venmo/DonnaMation and include your email. Donna Will then send you the link for class. REgister at least 2 hours before class begins. Donna is also selling YOUTUBE series that you can watch at your own leisure. Videos will stay up for months so you can take your time learning.
About the YOUTUBE SERIES FOR SALE:
Afro-Cuban:
Ogun – Includes 3 rhythms, some choreography
Ochun – Includes 5 dances/ rhythms
Elegua – includes 4 dances/ rhythms
Gaga – Choreography and a workout
Palo – choreography and a work out
Yemaya – Includes 3 in depth rhythms
Makuta- Total Beginner Class
Chango – difficult steps broken down and some turning challenges
Rumba For women – full coverage of all traditional rumba steps
Rumba for men – All traditional steps broken down
$25 per class or 7 classes for $135
SAMBA SERIES
$75 for the series or $45 for 3 classes
3 hour+ Samba Reggae routines and
3 hour+Rio styles routines
House Popping and Hip Hop Series
Popping or Hip Hop series $75 for 6 classes
Intermediate / Advanced House $100 for 6
House is challenging, intermediate level. A great workout!
Popping is a beginner level – Challenging but accessible.
Hip Hop – Super fun break down of at least 35 different party dances and a routine that builds every week.
You can purchase any of the series or individual classes at anytime.
DIRECETIONS:
Send in a venmo Payment to Venmo/DonnaMation write your email and name of dance you are registering for. Don’t write Afro-Cuban tho for some reason it triggers venmo into holding payments. Instead write Sunday classes 😉
You can purchases classes anytime.
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Accountability offer.
This is for anyone who wants to purchase youtube clips and stay motivated to do your lessons. You have to be willing to record yourself dancing, send it to me and then get feedback on your lessons. Trust me this is one of the greatest ways to stay focused and advance in you dancing. $5 extra per class if you choose this.
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