Awareness Through Movement® Packages

Developmental Movement

This series of eight lessons takes you through the stages of movement organization from lying on our backs as infants, to learning to stand and walk. These simultaneously organize our brain for more complex interactions with our environment. Frequently, we miss one of these stages, or lose it later in life due to injury or the demands of life.

This package contains: Breathing Volumes (E3); Radial Breathing (E2); Simple Flexion (A1b); Simple Bending (A10); Rolling Side to Side (A20); Extend, Rotate, Look at Hand Reaching Overhead (A11); Side Rolling with Differentiation (A22); Connecting Through the Diagonals (A7).

Better Breathing

Breathing freely helps us to be more at ease and improve everything we do. These three lessons do not teach you a way of breathing, instead they teach your nervous system how to adapt your breathing to any situation.

This package includes: Better Breathing (E3); Radial Breathing (E2); See Saw Breathing(E1).

Freeing Your Sternum & Upper Back

When your sternum is not moving, your ribs cannot move and this binds your thoracic spine, the area between your shoulder blades, which can cause you to overuse your neck and lower back, creating pain. This five lesson series, if done carefully, can help you move with greater coordination, ease and comfort.

This package includes: Spinal Chain, Arms Reaching (D4); Spine Chain Rotating the Upper Back (D15); Returning Movement to the Base of the Neck (A6); Sexy Legs (D12); On Back, Twisting and Moving Your Sternum (B3).

Lessons and Practices to Calm Your Nervous System

 Most of us live with a good deal of stress in our lives, and events over the last several years have increased the stress we are experiencing.  We have put together several Awareness Through Movement Lessons, Breathing Practices, and short Guided Meditations that we have found can teach you how to find greater calm in your life.  However, they are not “miracle cures.” These practices and lessons have benefited many people over many years, but in order to benefit from them they need to be practiced, done daily or several times a day for at least several weeks or months before you will begin to notice the change.  If they are practiced as they are given, they will bring benefit.

This package includes the following Awareness Through Movement Lessons: Eyes, Hands, and Breathing (I6), Rolling Hands and Palming Eyes (I4), Working with the Dominant Hand (F4), and Eyes, Palate, and Tongue (I7). In addition, it includes three simple meditation practices (Bringing Awareness to the Present Moment, Resting with your Body Breathing, Resting with your Body Breathing and Stillness) as well as a series of short breathing practices (3 Way Breathing, Alternate Breathing, Box Breathing for Calm and Focus, 4,7,8 Breathing, Simple Breathing to Calm Your Nervous System)

Improving the Use of Your Arms

Many of us isolate our arms from the rest of our bodies. Integrated use of your arms involves coordinating movements of your spine and shoulder girdle with your arms, while eliciting support from your pelvis, legs, and ultimately the ground.

This package includes: On Side, Primary Movements of the Shoulder (F6); Sitting and Reaching with Mobile and Stable Scapula (F7); Returning Movement to the Base of the Neck (A6); Spinal Chain, Arms Reaching (D4); Spine Chain Rotating the Upper Back (D15); Reaching Through One Arm to Roll from Back to Side (F5); On Side, Circling the Arm (F8); Crossed Arms, Fingers Interlaced Behind Neck (F9).

Releasing Tension in Your Jaw, Mouth and Neck

When your jaw, tongue, or mouth are tight, your neck will be tight and restricted in movement as well. Additionally, a tight jaw will restrict your breathing, thus creating anxiety, or adding to existing anxiety. These five simple lessons can help you relax and integrate your jaw, mouth, and neck.

This package includes: Tongue, Palate and Eyes (C1); The Relationship of Jaw, Tongue, Neck, and Pelvis(C3); Sucking (C7); Tongue, Teeth, Jaw and Sucking (C8); Equalizing the Nostril (H1).

Walking and Running

Walking and running involve complex interactions of your entire body. Most approaches to walking and running teach you to lock your trunk and just use your legs. This is just the opposite approach - for greatest efficiency, coordination, and ease - walk and run with your whole body. This seven lesson series will help you to include your whole self. You will have access to this package for 3 months from the time of purchase. You may listen as many times as you’d like.

This package includes: Painting with the Feet while on your Stomach (D5); Flexible Knees (D13); Hips and Trunk (D9); Side Rolling with Differentiation (A22); Eyes, Head and Pelvis-Turning Head (I3); Standing on Crossed Legs (D8).