The Journey Inward
Self Discovery with
Awareness Through
Movement®
Taught by Diana Razumny
“Who looks outside, dreams; who
looks inside, awakes.” - Carl Jung
Who
is invited?
These groups are open to people interested in experiencing: more
fluidity, elegance & grace - a dynamic balance between
stability and mobility - more pleasure in movement - and a deeper
connection with self. This is also a wonderful way to gift one’s
self with a fresh start, an injection of new energy or perspective
into your life. The work encountered in The Journey
Inward series is effective in helping to create smooth
transitions into new phases of life, be it different career paths
or changing relationships. This series is also designed to create
that important space where insight and inspiration occur,
especially during those periods of not knowing what’s next in your
life journey.
“Making an inner journey is a
risky business. It can transform your life.” - Sheldon
Kopp
Benefits:
Learning to sense your self and become aware through this moving
process reveals a variety of surprising and unpredictable results.
For certain you will move with greater comfort, ease and grace.
That’s only the beginning. You will discover more about what you
dream to be and do. Your sense of power and access to creativity
will blossom. In essence, you will come to know more of who you
really are.
Why
participate?
Our personal history creates an identity that can become fixed,
like a mask or costume we can’t remove. Our habits of behavior
limit us in many areas of our life, which can include the physical,
emotional, mental and/or spiritual. Our work and relationships can
begin to loose luster. Modern living plays a role in separating us
from our deeper selves. The Journey Inward is an immersion process
that will facilitate moving and sensing into your self. On this
journey you will recover your innate intelligence. The light of
this intelligence helps dispel the inauthentic self and shines
through to all aspects of life.
“Our mind is embodied, not just
embrainded” - Antonio Damasio
How it works:
By using gentle, slow and novel movements and awareness during the
Awareness
Through Movement (ATM)
lessons you will be guided into territories of yourself that you
otherwise would not explore. In the process of these explorations
you begin collecting the missing pieces to your self-image.
Developing a fuller self-image, more of yourself becomes available
and shows up in all activities of your life.
“In order to change our mode of action we must change
the image of ourselves that we carry within us. . . .Such a change
involves not only a change in our self-image, but a change in the
nature of our motivations, and the mobilization of all the parts of
the body concerned.” – Moshe Feldenkrais
Format:
There are several formats being designed. The original format of
meeting 4 days per month for 9 months is ideal for immersion so a
new self can begin to emerge. Other formats are being considered
including starting with 4-day weekends and developing the number of
segments based on group needs and availability of time. In all
formats the immersion will be accomplished primarily by exploration
through the movement lessons as well as support from: explorations
in anatomy; writing or drawing as desired; interacting with other
participants and talks that explore the genius of Dr. Feldenkrais’
work and how it fits into modern living. Other movement activities
will be explored in order to integrate the movement lessons into
your daily activities and life.
Origins:
The intelligence of the human nervous system has been evolving
through the ages. This is the terrain where Dr. Feldenkrais’ genius
and curiosity led him to examine thinking, feeling, sensing and
moving and how all are connected. If you affect one, you affect
all. In his method, which bears his name, there are movement
lessons that are designed to explore and develop these four realms
of the human experience. Awareness Through Movement
lessons will be the vehicle we use to take The Journey
Inward.
“There is more reason in your
body than in your best wisdom” - Nietzsche
Logistics &
Registration:
The primary location is Santa Fe, NM but other locations such as
Boulder, CO are being considered. The cost of the course is still
to be determined. Starting dates will be determined as the groups
form. Completing our contact form and expressing your interest is
the first step. If you have a group already that would be
interested in this training then we can look at your location and
possible formats and dates.