Note: Course is conducted in English
In FAMO Focus, our attention is on 12 fascial movement qualities. You will explore what they are, why they matter, and how you can utilise them to increase physical health and functionality, along with psycho-emotional wellbeing, and even interpersonal bonds, elevating the quality of life in a sustainable way.
About the Course
Throughout the course, you will learn and experience 12 training techniques designed to embody the 12 practice aims. Overall, FAMO Focus will give you the skills and knowledge to work with fascia in motion in a holistic, nuanced, and highly effective manner suitable for every body.
As the cornerstone of the FAMO Fascia Movement education, this course enables you grasp the ‘why’ behind the FAMO Practice exercises, including their specific execution, variations, breathing patterns, the use of massage tools, and cueing focus.
If you are interested in understanding and working with 12 distinct fascial movement qualities to attain greater postural ease, movement freedom, self-awareness, and feeling of inner and outer togetherness, FAMO Focus is for you.
Learning Outcomes
By participating in this course, you will:
- Acquire knowledge and skills about fascia in motion to add a new dimension to your movement classes, bodywork, or therapy sessions
- Explore Resource-Oriented Integrative Movement as the framework for health-focused, holistic, and inclusive movement practices
- Understand the 6 guiding principles of FAMO and their practical value
- View the “body-mind” with fresh eyes and become acquainted with the Essential Self
- Identify the architectural, anatomical, and functional features of the fascial system
- Comprehend the meaning and functional value of the 12 fascial movement qualities from an experience-based and science-informed perspective
- Understand how the 12 fascial movement qualities are translated into practical guidelines and applications
- Experience each of the 12 fascial movement qualities in a distinct way
- Learn 12 training techniques
- Get to know 12 practice aims
- Participate in master classes and short practices that integrate all course components
- Gain fascia-focused skills and knowledge to bring a new dimension to your movement classes, bodywork, or therapy sessions
- Enhance your body-mind vitality on the go
Course Highlights
We aim to make the journey of understanding, embodying, and retaining functional anatomy engaging, practical, and enjoyable. A dynamic blend of master classes, interactive lectures, demonstrations, and short practices facilitates intellectual comprehension, experiencing, and embodiment alike.
Self-Contained & Part of FAMO Certification
FAMO Focus is a self-contained course and also a module within the FAMO certification program. It can be attended either before or after Anatomy Trains in Motion as part of the program.
Prerequisite
Certification in a movement, health, bodywork, or therapy field.
FAMO Practice 1
The three FAMO Practice courses examine the details of FAMO exercises to refine your own movement execution and prepare you to teach your clients. This first FAMO Practice module offers a rich selection of experience-proven repertoire that utilise and benefit all 12 fascial movement qualities (FAMO Focus) and 12 myofascial meridians (Anatomy Trains in Motion).
About the Course
By the end of the course, you will have a nuanced understanding and a felt sense of a multidimensional set of our favourite FAMO exercises, ready to use in your personal practice and with clients. Experience has shown that the movements and techniques are well-suited for group classes, personalised training, and therapeutic settings, using body-minded movement to enhance physical functionality and psycho-emotional wellbeing.
While all myofascial meridians are considered, special emphasis is placed on the Superficial Back Line and Superficial Front Line due to their essential roles in postural balance, movement production, and creating a feeling of grounded lift in the body-mind. Among the diverse selection of primary exercises are the 14 used for posture-based movement strategies in the FAMO Body Reading & Rebalancing course.
Learning Outcomes
By participating in this course, you will:
- Learn and experience multidimensional exercises anchored in sound principles of integral fascia-focused anatomy and body-mind holism
- Gain a solid understanding of exercises ideally suited for posture-based movement programs
- Understand the ‘why’ behind exercise execution, including applied training techniques, breathing patterns, variations, adaptations, and the use of massage tools and supportive props
- Grasp and embody the ‘how’ of exercise execution and teaching
- Discover the diverse, nuanced use of massage tools that goes beyond the obvious and generic
- Comprehend how fascial movement qualities are deliberately utilised, trained, and enhanced with specific exercises and sequences
- Understand how focusing on specific myofascial meridians influences and enriches movement aims and positive outcomes
- Explore all myofascial meridians in practice, with a special emphasis on the workings and the somatic and psycho-emotional benefits of the Superficial Back Line and Superficial Front Line
- Experience and observe the profound effects of FAMO Fascia Movement on the body-mind
- Gain a new repertoire of exercises to add a novel dimension to your own practice, your classes, personalised training, bodywork, or therapy sessions
- Vitalise your body-mind in the moment
Course Highlights
For a purely somatic, non-analytical immersion into FAMO Practice 1, each course day begins with a master class that seamlessly weaves in the day’s repertoire. These exercises are then broken down and explored in detail to prepare you to teach.
FAMO Practice 1 repertoire comprises:
- Differentiated and integrated exercises in all body positions
- Slow and deep, dynamic, and rhythmic, stimulating and invigorating, strengthening and melting exercises as well as contrasting movement sequences
- Exercises variations and adaptations that alter focus, intensity, and/or body position
- Exercise variations with and without massage tools
Each exercise is experienced and discussed in terms of:
- Movement execution
- Exercise aims and benefits
- Functional myofascial anatomy
- Utilisation of fascial movement qualities
- Applied training techniques
- Use and advantages of massage tools or supportive props
- Purposeful sequencing
Self-Contained & Part of FAMO Certification
FAMO Practice 1 is a self-contained course and also a module within the FAMO certification program. It can be attended once both the Anatomy Trains in Motion and FAMO Focus have been completed.
