Weekend Workshop…Puerto Vallarta
Date/Time
Date(s) - 17 Feb 2012 until 19 Feb 2012
4:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
Inkarri Puerto Vallarta
Category(ies)
Organic Stretching®: The Natural Stretching System for Connective Tissue, Healthy Joints, and Increased Range of Motion with Pat Henry
10% — 20% discounts for early paid registrations!! See “cost” below for details.
This weekend workshop will introduce you to Organic Stretching®, the stretching system designed to restore and maintain fluidity throughout your body for your health, your recovery from injury, or your enjoyment of sports, dance, and other activities. This gentle, but deeply effective program lets you work at your own level and pace to extend your range of motion. Based in principles rather than positions, your body leads you soften the edges of your limits.
This past year Pat produced a DVD…Organic Stretching®: The Principles and Movements. Following is a review of the video and the program by Deane Juhan.
Pat Henry’s DVD, “Organic Stretching,” is much more than just another how-to offering of poses and procedures. It is a dynamically exploratory invitation to sculpt your own yoga and to develop the strength and flexibility that are unique to you. Well thought-out and innovative examples of stretching movements are, of course, presented (with aesthetic beauty, I would add), rich ideas for getting started in the evolving of your own personal practice. But more importantly than that, Pat’s purpose is to lead you beyond the imitation of asanas and protocols, into an organic unfolding of your own body’s needs and capacities and your own individualized path to vitality. Very like Trungpa’s groundbreaking Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism in spirit and intention, “Organic Stretching” cuts through imitative discipline and opens the door to the celebration of your own idiosyncratic being and its expression–like no other’s–in your own joy of movement and self-development.
Deane Juhan— Author…Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork and Touched by the Goddess: The Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork and… TraegerWork® Practitioner/Instructor (CEU certified)
This DVD is included in the cost of the workshop (value $37.50US).
Organic Stretching® grew out of the pain management therapy The Wallace Method developed by Heather Wallace. It was created as an individual exercise approach to stimulate and open the connective tissue system allowing gradual realignment within the structure.
The process of teaching and learning Organic Stretching® is quite different from any other form of stretching, workout, or fitness. It is totally improvisational; students do not attempt to emulate the moves of the instructor. They create their own moves in response to signals from the body. In the end, it is not a mental process.
To teach the body to move on its own takes time. It begins as a partnership of mind and body as the information is translated from ideas to movements, and eventually becomes almost only movement…the student becomes an observer of his own body at work.
In this workshop, we will translate the principles that guide the work into movement through a variety of approaches. With these tools we will build body memory as Pat leads the group through patterns of movement. You will then develop your own improvised patterns.
Each student learns to listen to her own body, to find its limits, and to develop at her own pace in accordance with her capabilities and needs. Pat coaches individually as she observes ways to enhance the moves and implement the principles more effectively.
With ten hours of focused work, it is possible for the body to acquire the feel of Organic Stretching® and begin to grasp the concepts, enough to continue working independently.
Dress comfortably as you would for tai chi. You may wish to bring a snack for the break on Saturday and Sunday, or you can go out to the coffee shop on the ground floor for a beverage and sweet or possibly a savory snack. There are other options nearby. Bring your water bottle.
What: Organic Stretching™: The Natural Stretching System for Connective Tissue, Healthy Joints, and Increased Range of Motion
When: February 17 – 19; Friday, 4—6pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10—12am and 1–3pm
Where: Inkarri Puerto Vallarta, Calle Océano Pácifico 218, 2nd Floor, Puerto Vallarta (Col Palmar de Aramara, next to IMSS Hospital)
Cost: $130US, by PayPal payment request from Pat on receipt of registration.
20% discount for paid registrations received before February 1 and 10% discount for paid registrations received between February 1 and 13.
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