BODY LANGUAGE

• Fascial anatomy
• Body Reading
• Touch-cueing
• "Talk your walk"

Body Language starts January 22, 2010 in NYC!
 

WHAT IS BODY LANGUAGE?

Body Language is a unique 200-hour skill development course designed especially for Personal Trainers, Yoga and Pilates teachers, movement teachers and dancers taught by Tom Myers (author of Anatomy Trains), and Anatomy Trains faculty members Mark Finch and Simone Lindner.

This is the course you wish you had when you were starting out! “Designed to move” holistic anatomy, accurate “bodyreading” of posture and movement, and a wide variety of verbal and touch-cueing skills: all integrated for today’s movement educators and therapists.

Spend six 4-day weekends with us in 2010 and come out with unique new skills, no matter what your practice. 

WHO IS IT FOR?

Personal trainers, Yoga teachers, Pilates/Gyrotonics instructors, dance teachers, any movement and manual therapists such as Feldenkrais, Alexander, or P.T.’s who want to broaden their skill and knowledge base for a long and rewarding career in movement.

WHY SPEND ALL THIS TIME & MONEY?

Movement education and manual therapy are rapidly integrating into a new approach to body structure and exercise.

Get ahead of the curve!

• Whether your practice is movement-based or touch-based, this course expands your  understanding of your clients’ growth, performance, and rehabilitation.
• A wide “vocabulary” of touch cueing to bring awareness to “amnesiac” areas of the body.
• Fascia – the missing element of movement. You know the muscles, you know the bones, but what about the essential tissues that unites them all?

Expand Your Touch-Cueing Skills to Educate New Movement

A wide vocabulary of touch-abilities lets you

• evoke specific core movements
• create sensation and "flow" where it has been lost
• change your clients' stressful habit patterns and inefficient posture

Exit this training with a wide variety of touch skills to enhance your clients' experience of movement, accelerate progress, and make changes last.

 Hone Your Seeing Skills - The Ability to "BodyRead"

Learn a simple but profound method to visually analysis body patterns, postures, and internal relationships in standing, walking, daily activities, and exercise. "Work smarter" by seeing the deeper connections in your clients' body-wide strain patterns.

Read a person's history in the way they stand and move, right down to their specific rotations and mal-alignments on the one hand, and into their unexpressed emotions on the other.

Deepen Your Knowledge Base - New, Relevant Anatomy You Will Use Every Day

Understand body relationships as you never have before through our "whole-systems" approach to Myofascial Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Physiology.

• Body "geometry" and biomechanics
• Tensegrity - the dance of tension and compression amoung muscles, fascia, bones and joints
• Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians map for structural and movement analysis
• Medical terminology
• "Talk your walk"
• Knowing when to refer and where
• Latest research on cellular communication
• "Issues in tissues"
• Evolution, Embryology, and Development - how it all hangs together
• Fascia - the missing element in movement
• Fascial receptors
• Fascia in performance and repair

PREREQUISITES

1. Movement educators and therapists are invited to join this training. Manual therapists are also welcome
2. Acceptance into the program is based on a completed application and is entirely at the discretion of Kinesis, Inc.
3. Familiarity with the Anatomy Trains concept is recommended

BODY LANGUAGE FACULTY

Thomas Myers (Guest teacher) studied directly with Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and has practiced integrative bodywork for over 30 years in a variety of clinical and cultural settings. Tom is the author of the bestselling Anatomy Trains (Elsevier, 2 ed. 2009), as well as numerous articles and video programs on fascial technique and dissection. He currently directs Kinesis, which offers professional and CE training worldwide. Tom lives with his wife Quan on the coast of Maine, and retains a strong interest in peri-natal issues. For more on Tom’s work, go to www.AnatomyTrains.com

Mark Finch (Guest teacher) has been a body worker since 1996, training in Therapeutic Massage, Neuromuscular Therapy, Structural Integration (KMI) and Visceral Manipulation. Mark maintains a busy practice in Vancouver B.C. focused on Structural Integration and divides his time between his practice and teaching Anatomy Trains and other short courses in North America, and Australia. Mark’s interest is in structural change and integrating functional
movement.

Simone Lindner (Host teacher) is a licensed Massage Therapist as well as an Advanced Practitioner of KMI. Passionate about bodywork from a young age, Simone draws from her love of anatomy and movement (running, dancing, diving and Yoga), as well as her connection to the ocean and being a mother. She left Germany in her early 20s and certified at “Educating Hands” in Miami, FL. in 1995. In 2001 she obtained her Certification as a Structural Integration practitioner through the School of Tom Myers (KMI) and has since assisted and co taught workshops (Amatomy Trains) and trainings (Body Language). Simone lives and works in New York City.

Zachery Dacuk (Facilitator and Assistant) has practiced bodywork since 2002, informed by advanced trainings in multiple disciplines. Zachery’s practice blends elements
of Therapeutic Massage, Shiatsu, and Structural Integration (KMI). He is also a registered yoga teacher inspired by
Anusara since 2003. Zach lives and works in New York City.
Zach is one of the founders and assistant teachers of Body
Language. He is personal interested in sharing the wealth of
knowledge collected by body workers, specifically