Sunday May 17, 2020 

10:00 am – 1:00 pm (HST)

$59 (Golden Circle Membership: 20% for single workshop)

$79  for Heart Strength weekend

Heart, Vagus Nerve, Face & Gut Connection

On Sunday we continue strengthening the heart while freeing the neck, the face, jaw and tongue. With Feldenkrais/SmartMoves lessons we may take years off our faces, make our smile more radiant and our mouth more spacious. Many invisible benefits will become apparent from within.

As highly evolved beings, we possess a very adaptive vagus nerve that connects the brain and its busy activities with our gut. How does it do that? Through the heart! As the longest nerve in our body, the vagus nerve integrates the thoughts of the mind – as they play upon our facial expressions and in our voice – with that “gut feeling” by GOING THROUGH THE HEART! We find that a strong heart center integrates the ideas and sociability of the mind with instinctive information that comes from the gut. This allows us to adapt and self-regulate in ways that reptiles, for example, cannot do, being confined to instinct only. 

This workshop seeks to integrate the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais – an early pioneer of neuroplasticity, who worked wonders on human health via the mind-body connection through the nervous system – with Dr Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal theory, on the vagus nerve connecting our higher and lower centers:the Neuroscience of Polarisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmkG5l7CaGw) Additionally, Chinese medicine teaches that the tongue has an intimate connection with both the jaw and the heart.

To find practical applications for improving your health and strengthening your heart, your teacher Eva Geueke draws from her decades of experience as a Feldenkrais practitioner, as well as her extensive work in Mantac Chia’s Qigong practice and Emily Conrad’s Continuum practice.

Attendees will have access to a video recording session for a days after the workshop, at a modest price.

Eva Alewa Geueke

Students appreciate Eva’s sincere care for their health and excellence on every level. Her range of personal experience in various moving art forms and her understanding of movement in the human body are vast. She studied Dance in Holland at the prestigious Rotterdam’s Dance Academie and then went on to later study in New York City. She has trained in a wide range of dance forms such as: Ballet, Modern Dance, Post Modern Dance/Release Technique, Axis Syllabus, Body-Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation, African Dance and currently Hula.

Eva Alewa Geueke has been a guild certified Feldenkrais® practitioner for 30 years. She came to the Feldenkrais Method® as a young professional dancer and it changed her understanding of the brain, body, movement and therefore, herself forever. Since completing the 4-year Professional Feldenkrais Training in 1987 she has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method® internationally in thousands of private sessions, week long seminars, and hundreds of week-end workshops and evening classes.

Eva loves to share her knowledge and passion for conscious movement and to help people improve and excel in all areas of their lives. She taught Yoga Aerobics® in NYC in the 80’s before getting to know the Feldenkrais Method. Eva is a teacher of Contemporary dance, Qigong-Universal Tao of Mantak Chia, a Capoeirista (Brazilian martial arts), WaveContinuum practitioner and a choreographer.

with Eva Geueke, Feldenkrais practitioner 

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Sunday April 19, 2020 1:30 – 4:00 pm: $59 

Part 1 & 2 Price:  $79 

Golden Circle Members: 20% discount (on individual workshops)

Eva Alewa Geueke

Students appreciate Eva’s sincere care for their health and excellence on every level. Her range of personal experience in various moving art forms and her understanding of the workings of the human body in motion are both vast.

Eva Alewa Geueke has been a guild certified Feldenkrais® practitioner for over 30 years. She came to the Feldenkrais Method® as a young professional dancer and it changed her understanding of brain, body, movement and therefore, herself forever. Since completing the 4-year Professional Feldenkrais Training in 1987 she has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method® internationally in thousands of private sessions, week long seminars, many hundreds of week-end workshops and evening classes.

Eva loves to share her knowledge and love for conscious movement to help people to improve and excel in all areas of their lives. She taught Yoga Aerobics® in NYC in the 80’s. Eva is a teacher of Contemporary dance, Qigong-Universal Tao of Mantak Chia, a IAO healer, a Capoeirista (Brazilian martial arts) and a choreographer. She also teaches Authentic Movement and Wave Continuum, a spin of Continuum Movement.

with Eva Geueke

$ 20

Golden Circle Members: 10% discount

Awaken your heart and heal yourself by delving into the wisdom of “your inner biology”. Through breath, sound and movement, we invite our inner waters to penetrate and saturate all the different layers of ourselves: muscles, connective tissue, organs and cells.

Through spiral movement we unfold our spirit and coax the love that lies in the depth of our being to fill us and penetrate the field around us.

Learn to listen for your authentic body wisdom. The meeting of life – water and the spark of fire is the wonderful practice of creation and connection. We are all longing for this connection, and when we make it, our hearts open to deep joy. Then our love overflows into the great ocean of love.

Learning awareness of the body and the self translates into awareness of others and our surroundings. We gain the virtues of peace, self-love with compassion for others, and gentleness with strength.

Feldenkrais – Mondays 4:15 – 5:15 pm  

Feldenkrais – Thursdays 9:30 – 10:45 am 

Chair Feldenkrais meets Qigong – Fridays 9:30 – 10:45 am  

Eva Geueke

Full Workshop: $75, Golden Circle Members $56 , Early Bird $63. 

One day: $50, Golden Circle Members $38, Early Bird $43.

Feeling tight in your neck, shoulders or back? This workshop can work wonders for you. Learn movements that will gently release your major tensions without a typical stretching or exercise routine. With Smart Moves you experience a big change in just 2 days, and what you learn will stay with you. Smart Moves Feldenkrais® is a system that uses the neuroplasticity of the brain to produce changes in the muscle tissue to be more efficiently organized. That means the body works better and permanent tension becomes unnecessary. You can do most of these movements while lying down, almost effortlessly. In fact, Eva will undoubtedly tell you to stop trying so hard! That’s part of the key to the Feldenkrais magic!

Eva Alewa Geueke has been a guild certified Feldenkrais® practitioner for almost 30 years. She came to the Feldenkrais Method® as a young professional dancer and it changed her understanding of brain, body, movement and therefore, herself forever.

Since completing the 4-year Professional Feldenkrais Training in 1987 she has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method® internationally in thousands of private sessions, week long seminars, many hundreds of week-end workshops and evening classes.

Eva loves to teach and share her knowledge and love for conscious movement to help people to improve and excel in all areas of their lives.

Eva is also a teacher of Contemporary Dance, Qigong-Universal Tao of Mantak Chia, a IAO healer, a Capoeirista (Brazilian Martial Arts) and a choreographer. She also teaches Authentic Movement and Wave Continuum, a spin of Continuum Movement.

Full 2 day Workshop: $75, Golden Circle Members $56 , Early Bird $63. 

One day: $50, Golden Circle Members $38, Early Bird $43.

Feeling tight in your neck, shoulders or back? This workshop can work wonders for you. Learn movements that will gently release your major tensions without a typical stretching or exercise routine. With Smart Moves you experience a big change in just 2 days, and what you learn will stay with you. Smart Moves Feldenkrais® is a system that uses the neuroplasticity of the brain to produce changes in the muscle tissue to be more efficiently organized. That means the body works better and permanent tension becomes unnecessary. You can do most of these movements while lying down, almost effortlessly. In fact, Eva will undoubtedly tell you to stop trying so hard! That’s part of the key to the Feldenkrais magic!

Eva Alewa Geueke has been a guild certified Feldenkrais® practitioner for almost 30 years. She came to the Feldenkrais Method® as a young professional dancer and it changed her understanding of brain, body, movement and therefore, herself forever.
Since completing the 4-year Professional Feldenkrais Training in 1987 she has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method® internationally in thousands of private sessions, week long seminars, many hundreds of week-end workshops and evening classes.

Eva loves to teach and share her knowledge and love for conscious movement to help people to improve and excel in all areas of their lives.

Eva is also a teacher of Contemporary Dance, Qigong-Universal Tao of Mantak Chia, a IAO healer, a Capoeirista (Brazilian Martial Arts) and a choreographer. She also teaches Authentic Movement and Wave Continuum, a spin of Continuum Movement.

with Eva Geueke

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This event will gently guide participants to explore intuitive dance movement through physical contact with one another. This is a free flow dance form in which the point of contact with the other dancer/s provides the starting point for a movement exploration. Practice can include rolling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact and supporting and giving weight to a partner.

We spend 45 minutes in dancing free flow before we start with the Contact Improvisational instructions and jam. Contact Improvisation is profound yet lighthearted, sometimes acrobatic yet safe, simple yet bold, sincere yet playful. Contact Improv will add newness, inspiration and a somewhat meditative, loving state to your dancing self. Contact Improv is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographers Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion-gravity, momentum, inertia.

*Wear comfortable clothing: half-length or long sleeves and pants preferred.

With Eva Geueke

1 for $38 or 3 for $95

4/2   3-5.45 pm  

Feldenkrais for Happy Feet

Happy feet are a pleasure to walk on. In this workshop, you will learn movements to make your feet stronger and more mobile while working on good posture at the same time. Having painful or deformed feet from misuse act as a drag on the body. Regaining flexible feet and ankles is of vital importance for balance. We can change our posture from the neck down and from the feet up.

4/3   4:30-6:15p  

Feldenkrais for Happy Knees, Spinal Rotation & Side Bending

This workshop helps improve walking, hiking, running, dancing and even tennis and golfing! It is great for hula dancers! It will feel like a vacation for your bigger joints! Your ribs are the ‘bumpers’ for your knees. If the ribcage is stiff, there is little elasticity for your walk and little shock absorption for any unevenness of the ground. Help your thoracic spine to move in harmony with your legs and pelvis and do a counter-rotation for stabilization.

4/9  3-5.45 pm  

Feldenkrais for Functional Hips, Flexible Pelvis & Strong Lower Back

Learn to make better use of the powerhouse of your locomotion: your hip-pelvis-lower back connection. The hip joints are part of the pelvis. The psoas muscle connects the legs to the lower back through the pelvis. Opening the hip flexors in this workshop increases healthy mobility and prevents hip damage. These Feldenkrais® movements enable you to sense the connection of your legs into your pelvis and torso so that all parts work together for powerful, flexible movement!

Eva Geueke is a Feldenkrais practitioner and teacher, as well as a Universal Tao instructor for Qigong, having studied under Mantak Chia.  A professionally trained dancer and choreographer, Eva teaches Release Technique dancing, Contact Improvisation, and Feldenkrais Movement, a self-developed style linking Feldenkrais to dance. Eva is also a teacher of Capoeira, has taught yoga, and studied Continuum movement with its Conrad for more than a decade, from which Eva created Wave Continuum.

With Eva Geueke

1 for $38 or 3 for $95

4/2   3-5.45 pm  

Feldenkrais for Happy Feet

Happy feet are a pleasure to walk on. In this workshop, you will learn movements to make your feet stronger and more mobile while working on good posture at the same time. Having painful or deformed feet from misuse act as a drag on the body. Regaining flexible feet and ankles is of vital importance for balance. We can change our posture from the neck down and from the feet up.

4/3   4:30-6:15p  

Feldenkrais for Happy Knees, Spinal Rotation & Side Bending

This workshop helps improve walking, hiking, running, dancing and even tennis and golfing! It is great for hula dancers! It will feel like a vacation for your bigger joints! Your ribs are the ‘bumpers’ for your knees. If the ribcage is stiff, there is little elasticity for your walk and little shock absorption for any unevenness of the ground. Help your thoracic spine to move in harmony with your legs and pelvis and do a counter-rotation for stabilization.

4/9  3-5.45 pm  

Feldenkrais for Functional Hips, Flexible Pelvis & Strong Lower Back

Learn to make better use of the powerhouse of your locomotion: your hip-pelvis-lower back connection. The hip joints are part of the pelvis. The psoas muscle connects the legs to the lower back through the pelvis. Opening the hip flexors in this workshop increases healthy mobility and prevents hip damage. These Feldenkrais® movements enable you to sense the connection of your legs into your pelvis and torso so that all parts work together for powerful, flexible movement!

Evahas been a guild certified Feldenkrais® practitioner for almost 30 years. She came to the Feldenkrais Method® as a young professional dancer and it changed her understanding of brain, body, movement, and therefore herself, forever. Eva also teaches Contemporary Dance, Qigong-Universal Tao of Mantak Chia, and is a IAO healer.

With Eva Geueke

1 for $38 or 3 for $95

4/2   3-5.45 pm  

Feldenkrais for Happy Feet

Happy feet are a pleasure to walk on. In this workshop, you will learn movements to make your feet stronger and more mobile while working on good posture at the same time. Having painful or deformed feet from misuse act as a drag on the body. Regaining flexible feet and ankles is of vital importance for balance. We can change our posture from the neck down and from the feet up.

4/3   4:30-6:15p  

Feldenkrais for Happy Knees, Spinal Rotation & Side Bending

This workshop helps improve walking, hiking, running, dancing and even tennis and golfing! It is great for hula dancers! It will feel like a vacation for your bigger joints! Your ribs are the ‘bumpers’ for your knees. If the ribcage is stiff, there is little elasticity for your walk and little shock absorption for any unevenness of the ground. Help your thoracic spine to move in harmony with your legs and pelvis and do a counter-rotation for stabilization.

4/9  3-5.45 pm  

Feldenkrais for Functional Hips, Flexible Pelvis & Strong Lower Back

Learn to make better use of the powerhouse of your locomotion: your hip-pelvis-lower back connection. The hip joints are part of the pelvis. The psoas muscle connects the legs to the lower back through the pelvis. Opening the hip flexors in this workshop increases healthy mobility and prevents hip damage. These Feldenkrais® movements enable you to sense the connection of your legs into your pelvis and torso so that all parts work together for powerful, flexible movement!

Evahas been a guild certified Feldenkrais® practitioner for almost 30 years. She came to the Feldenkrais Method® as a young professional dancer and it changed her understanding of brain, body, movement, and therefore herself, forever. Eva also teaches Contemporary Dance, Qigong-Universal Tao of Mantak Chia, and is a IAO healer.