Franklin Method Workshops

Bodies in Balance is happy to be able to bring The Franklin Method back to Oregon.

Saturday June 5th 2010

Release your Neck & Liberate your Shoulders

The workshop will demonstrate imagery, touch and simple movement exercises to lengthen and balance shoulder and neck musculature. Experience how the shoulder developed from a four legged support structure through brachiation into free suspension. Learn how to melt away tension and associated mental anxiety. Let your shoulders and neck become a place of ease and peace:
Learn how:
· Your shoulders are designed to move.
· To have suspended, free and easy shoulders.
· To use balls and therabands to create smooth joint action.
11:30am to 2:45pm
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Organ Movement for Health, Strength, and Flexibility
The organs of our bodies are generally not considered when it comes to training the body. The connection between our organs and movement are myriad: there are ligaments that connect the organs amongst each other and to the muscles and bones. Compression and suction forces relate the organs to all the surrounding structures. Muscle and joint pain as well as postural problems often relate to the organs. In this workshop we will learn to access and balance the organs to improve efficient posture and movement. We will also learn the relationship between breath and the organs. The result will be a general feeling of well-being. Our tools will be imagery, gentle movement and self-touch. Laypeople as well as teachers of movement will benefit from the class.
. Experience the connection between organs, strength, and flexibility.
. Learn how the organs move in respiration.
. Become more organic!
3-6:30 pm
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Sunday June 6th
Move Your Body Well-The Franklin Ball & Band Fest

In this class we will learn the unique Franklin-Method approach to conditioning with imagery, balls and bands and learn exercises that will create an immediate sense of strength and flexibility. With the help of balls we will improve our balance, alignment and coordination and increase the flexibility of the shoulder, back and hip-joint. The band exercises presented in this class will improve dynamic and static strength, trunk strength, extent flexibility, dynamic flexibility as well as motor and perceptual timing. Imagery is used with every exercise to increase the efficiency by which the nervous system directs the movement helping to achieve maximum strength and flexibility gains during the conditioning routines.

Learn:

How to make your workout fun.

How to use dynamic Imagery in a work out routine to modulate tension level, movement quality and muscle recruitment.

How to use Franklin Balls and Bands to tone the whole body.

* 10am to 1:30pm

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Imagery for a Healthy and Youthful Spine
Open the doorway to a life of spinal ease and well-being. In this workshop we will take a closer look at what good posture actually means and how to achieve it. Using imagery, massage balls, and exercises bands; we will move, balance, massage and relax the spine. Effortless posture, skeletal support and dynamic rebound follow.
2:00 to 5:30 pm
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Morten Dithmer
www.franklin-method.com
Master Teacher, Morten Dithmer brings a potent mix of experience from dance, Osteopathy, martial arts and comedy to his teaching. He was born in Denmark and trained as a dancer at the Rotterdam Dance Academy in Holland. He is an instructor in Osteopathic bodywork. He holds a 6th degree black belt and teachers license in Aikido. Morten's career in the performing arts spans 25+ years and he regularly entertains as a vaudeville performer, juggles, taps, sings and makes people laugh.
Morten is the Director of the Franklin Asia Office and teaches worldwide, including at Julliard, the Royal Danish ballet, the Hong Kong Modern Dance Academy, and the Yokohama Ballet, to name a few.

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