At the Finish Hall, 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, CA 94702
scheduleFriday 7/6
9:30 - 10a Opening circle 10 - 11:30a Lab Class with Kyra Rice 12:30 - 2:30p Feldenkrais with Miranda Janeschild 2:45 - 5p Kinetic Chains with Miranda Janeschild 7 - 9p Therapeutic Applications of the Axis Syllabus Saturday 7/7 10 - 11:30a Lab Class with René Smith 12:30 - 2:30p Feldenkrais with Miranda Janeschild 2:45 - 5p Kinetic Chains with Miranda Janeschild Sunday 7/8 10 - 11:30a Get Up! Get Down Dance Class with Phoenicia Pettyjohn 12:30 - 2:30p Feldenkrais with Miranda Janeschild 2:45 - 5p Kinetic Chains with Miranda Janeschild Monday 7/9 10 - 12p Fainting in Coils with Sarah Day Hanson 3 - 5p in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb 5:30 - 7p Anatomy Pot-Luck Tuesday 7/10 10 - 12p Fainting in Coils with Sarah Day Hanson 1 - 2:30p Lab Class with Bronwyn Michaels 3 - 5p in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb Wednesday 7/11 10 - 12p Fainting in Coils with Sarah Day Hanson 3 - 5p in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb 5:30 - 7:30p Capoeira and AS with Nuria Bowart Thursday 7/12 10 - 12p Fainting in Coils with Sarah Day Hanson 1 - 2:30p Lab Class with Rosemary Hannon 3 - 5p in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb Friday 7/13 10 - 11:30a Lab Class with Emily Jones 2 - 5p Imploding open Anatomies with Kevin O'Connor 7 - 8p Special performance 8 - 11p Dance Party! Saturday 7/14 10 - 11:30 Lab Class with Sam Stone 2 - 5p Imploding open Anatomies with Kevin O'Connor Sunday 7/15 10a - 1p Returning to the Periphery to Walk With Nature with Lori Halliday 2 - 5p Imploding open Anatomies with Kevin O'Connor |
registrationSee pricing schedules for classes and workshops in the PayPal drop down AND in all course descriptions below (scroll down to workshop and class descriptions).
Ten days of over 55 hours of classes, workshops, and special events. EARLY BIRD PRICING EXTENDED! All prices listed in the registration options will increase incrementally on June 1st and July 5th. Full event pricing schedule:
Pay by Price 5/1 - 5/31 $500 6/1 - 7/5 $550 7/6 $600 You may also register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com Please list in the PayPal notes each workshop you are registering for. See pricing schedules for classes and workshops in their descriptions below. |
Sarah Day Hanson
workshops
Feldenkrais®: An Advanced Twisting / Side-bending ATM* with Miranda Janeschild
July 6 - 8, 12:30 - 2:30p
Distribution of motion throughout the skeleton is a hallmark of efficient movement, along with a readiness for the body to move in any direction at any time, reverse an action, and recalibrate a direction of motion once an error is detected or if there is an environmental shift. These ideas will guide our inquiry, while the Feldenkrais® method taps a wide scope of sensory tactics to teach the details of advanced movement motifs. We will apply these motifs to dance. This class compliments the “Kinetic Chains” class and is best taken concurrently for the most benefit.
*Wear layers and bring a thick blanket to lie on.
Kinetic Chains: Unraveling Multifaceted Spirals with Miranda Janeschild
July 6 - 8, 2:45 - 5p
The notion that skeletal joints and segments have an effect on one another to create a series of sequential movements is not new to the Axis Syllabus. In this class we will tease out and sort conventional and unconventional kinetic chain movement ideas. Experiencing open chain and closed chain movement and their relationships to distal and proximal supports will be part of our inquiry. Given the transitory nature of a body in motion (especially in dance), the link between supports and sequential joint movement becomes the basis to unravel multifaceted spiraling actions. Kinetic chains and their transmission of force throughout body tissues highlight how muscular activation is the result, not the drive, to make an action to happen. This class compliments the “Feldenkrais Advanced ATM” class and is best taken concurrently for the most benefit.
Bio: Miranda Janeschild is a long-time performing artist, dancer, choreographer, as well as a teacher of Axis Syllabus, contact improvisation and aerial dance. Her Axis Syllabus studies began in 2001, and she became certified to teach in 2006. For 10 years she was Artistic Director of Mir & A Company, a story-telling theatrical aerial dance company comprised of risk taking spiritual seekers. Currently, Miranda works as a pediatric Occupational Therapist and Feldenkrais® Teacher, holding a Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy and specialty certificates in pediatrics, Feldenkrais®, Neuro-Developmental Treatment, Sensory Integration, and Advanced Baby Treatment. She has served children with various special needs for 30 years. She has a private practice specializing in sensory processing, neuromuscular, and orthopedic challenges.
Payment schedule for both workshops: before June 1 $150 | June 1-July 4 $170 | July 5 $200
For one workshop: before June 1 $80 | June 1-July 4 $100 | July 5 $120
July 6 - 8, 12:30 - 2:30p
Distribution of motion throughout the skeleton is a hallmark of efficient movement, along with a readiness for the body to move in any direction at any time, reverse an action, and recalibrate a direction of motion once an error is detected or if there is an environmental shift. These ideas will guide our inquiry, while the Feldenkrais® method taps a wide scope of sensory tactics to teach the details of advanced movement motifs. We will apply these motifs to dance. This class compliments the “Kinetic Chains” class and is best taken concurrently for the most benefit.
*Wear layers and bring a thick blanket to lie on.
Kinetic Chains: Unraveling Multifaceted Spirals with Miranda Janeschild
July 6 - 8, 2:45 - 5p
The notion that skeletal joints and segments have an effect on one another to create a series of sequential movements is not new to the Axis Syllabus. In this class we will tease out and sort conventional and unconventional kinetic chain movement ideas. Experiencing open chain and closed chain movement and their relationships to distal and proximal supports will be part of our inquiry. Given the transitory nature of a body in motion (especially in dance), the link between supports and sequential joint movement becomes the basis to unravel multifaceted spiraling actions. Kinetic chains and their transmission of force throughout body tissues highlight how muscular activation is the result, not the drive, to make an action to happen. This class compliments the “Feldenkrais Advanced ATM” class and is best taken concurrently for the most benefit.
Bio: Miranda Janeschild is a long-time performing artist, dancer, choreographer, as well as a teacher of Axis Syllabus, contact improvisation and aerial dance. Her Axis Syllabus studies began in 2001, and she became certified to teach in 2006. For 10 years she was Artistic Director of Mir & A Company, a story-telling theatrical aerial dance company comprised of risk taking spiritual seekers. Currently, Miranda works as a pediatric Occupational Therapist and Feldenkrais® Teacher, holding a Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy and specialty certificates in pediatrics, Feldenkrais®, Neuro-Developmental Treatment, Sensory Integration, and Advanced Baby Treatment. She has served children with various special needs for 30 years. She has a private practice specializing in sensory processing, neuromuscular, and orthopedic challenges.
Payment schedule for both workshops: before June 1 $150 | June 1-July 4 $170 | July 5 $200
For one workshop: before June 1 $80 | June 1-July 4 $100 | July 5 $120
Fainting in Coils: Chronological Architecture and Curvilinear Cultivation with Sarah Day Hanson
July 9 - 12, 10a - 12p
How much time is given within a fall? How many moments of choice might we activate on the way down? And what energy can be harnessed for the return ascent? We will explore the lusciousness of sequential movement, thrill of acceleration, and time-stretching deceleration. Attention will be given to spinal design, the arcing pathways proposed by joint articulations, tone modulation, and feedback loops between proximal and distal body masses to find timely and structurally sound support as we carve through space.
Bio: Since 2003 Sarah has been professionally facilitating embodied awareness through movement education and hands on bodywork. She is a Certified Axis Syllabus Teacher, which she began studying in 2006 with Frey Faust in the US and Europe. Sarah’s approach to the body as an expressive instrument is grounded in her long engagement with anatomy, biomechanics, contemporary dance practices, varied movement and somatic arts, performance, CI, site-specifics, and interdisciplinary visual art. Sarah holds a BA from San Francisco State University in Studio Art and Art History. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah teaches ongoing Axis Syllabus classes, maintains a private bodywork practice, and is a member of the clinically oriented team at Psoas in SF.
Payment schedule: before June 1: $100 | June 1-July 4: $125 | July 5: $150
July 9 - 12, 10a - 12p
How much time is given within a fall? How many moments of choice might we activate on the way down? And what energy can be harnessed for the return ascent? We will explore the lusciousness of sequential movement, thrill of acceleration, and time-stretching deceleration. Attention will be given to spinal design, the arcing pathways proposed by joint articulations, tone modulation, and feedback loops between proximal and distal body masses to find timely and structurally sound support as we carve through space.
Bio: Since 2003 Sarah has been professionally facilitating embodied awareness through movement education and hands on bodywork. She is a Certified Axis Syllabus Teacher, which she began studying in 2006 with Frey Faust in the US and Europe. Sarah’s approach to the body as an expressive instrument is grounded in her long engagement with anatomy, biomechanics, contemporary dance practices, varied movement and somatic arts, performance, CI, site-specifics, and interdisciplinary visual art. Sarah holds a BA from San Francisco State University in Studio Art and Art History. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah teaches ongoing Axis Syllabus classes, maintains a private bodywork practice, and is a member of the clinically oriented team at Psoas in SF.
Payment schedule: before June 1: $100 | June 1-July 4: $125 | July 5: $150
in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb
July 9 - 12, 3 - 5p
Tone is the level of tension within muscles and other soft-tissue structures. How do changes in passive and active tone create different movement possibilities? How does “intentional tension” unify the body for a more harmonious movement and dance experience?
Bio: Sebastian Grubb is an award-winning dance artist and personal fitness trainer in San Francisco. Certified as an Axis Syllabus teacher since 2011, he teaches workshops and classes that bridge biomechanics, dance, fitness, and community. www.sebastian.fit | www.bodywagging.dance
Payment schedule: before June 1: $100 | June 1-July 4: $125 | July 5: $150
July 9 - 12, 3 - 5p
Tone is the level of tension within muscles and other soft-tissue structures. How do changes in passive and active tone create different movement possibilities? How does “intentional tension” unify the body for a more harmonious movement and dance experience?
Bio: Sebastian Grubb is an award-winning dance artist and personal fitness trainer in San Francisco. Certified as an Axis Syllabus teacher since 2011, he teaches workshops and classes that bridge biomechanics, dance, fitness, and community. www.sebastian.fit | www.bodywagging.dance
Payment schedule: before June 1: $100 | June 1-July 4: $125 | July 5: $150
Imploding open Anatomies with Kevin O'Connor
July 13 - 15, 2 - 5p
This is a movement class exploring anatomies in the making. It is a waking up to connections. Coffee is not enough, alas. Necessary for some of us, but not enough to properly wake up to the connectedness of the world, to our connectedness to ways of making bodies and making worlds. How do muscles, bones, fascia contain their histories without our being aware of them? What power dynamics are at play in these histories? What models do we think bodies with? How do they move us generatively in some ways and not others? Come prepared to move and think and cultivate new sensibilities as we ask: can engaging emerging biologies as non-essentializing entanglements offer us different ways of training our attention and body-minds.
Bio: Kevin O’Connor is a multidisciplinary artist working as a choreographer, dancer, improviser, circus artist and installation artist from Ontario, Canada and now based in the Bay area. He is involved in a decade-long artistic collective exploring participatory de-colonizing performances within polluted watersheds in Ontario. Over the last few years, he has worked with NAKA, Shakiri and Skywatchers in the Bay Area, Oncogrrrls feminist art collective in Spain, and collaborated with Inuit hunter and designer Paulette Metuq on a project in Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. He has been learning with the axis syllabus community for over a decade and is a biodynamic cranial sacral practitioner. He completed an MFA in choreography and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in performance studies at UC Davis. HIs research examines anatomies, body performance capacities, interventions and imaginations in relation to science studies, including the becoming material-bio-capital tissue called fascia.
Pricing schedule: Before June 1: $110 | June 1-July 4: $125 | after July 5: $150
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
July 13 - 15, 2 - 5p
This is a movement class exploring anatomies in the making. It is a waking up to connections. Coffee is not enough, alas. Necessary for some of us, but not enough to properly wake up to the connectedness of the world, to our connectedness to ways of making bodies and making worlds. How do muscles, bones, fascia contain their histories without our being aware of them? What power dynamics are at play in these histories? What models do we think bodies with? How do they move us generatively in some ways and not others? Come prepared to move and think and cultivate new sensibilities as we ask: can engaging emerging biologies as non-essentializing entanglements offer us different ways of training our attention and body-minds.
Bio: Kevin O’Connor is a multidisciplinary artist working as a choreographer, dancer, improviser, circus artist and installation artist from Ontario, Canada and now based in the Bay area. He is involved in a decade-long artistic collective exploring participatory de-colonizing performances within polluted watersheds in Ontario. Over the last few years, he has worked with NAKA, Shakiri and Skywatchers in the Bay Area, Oncogrrrls feminist art collective in Spain, and collaborated with Inuit hunter and designer Paulette Metuq on a project in Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. He has been learning with the axis syllabus community for over a decade and is a biodynamic cranial sacral practitioner. He completed an MFA in choreography and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in performance studies at UC Davis. HIs research examines anatomies, body performance capacities, interventions and imaginations in relation to science studies, including the becoming material-bio-capital tissue called fascia.
Pricing schedule: Before June 1: $110 | June 1-July 4: $125 | after July 5: $150
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
classes
Sunday Morning Get Down with PHOENICIA PETTYJOHN: Or Get UP! It’s time for Dance Class.
July 8, 10 - 11:30a
This one off class is offered in the style of a studio drop-in class. We’ll warm-up, question and move together. Let’s take our questions and movement inquiries and weave them into the practice of “taking class”.
Bio: Phoenicia Pettyjohn is a SF resident, movement artist, educator and certified Axis Syllabus teacher. She brings her life long love of taking dance class to her teachings of contemporary dance and other forms. Current performance collaborators include Aura Fischbeck Dance and Catherine Galasso.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $20 | after July 5: $30
July 8, 10 - 11:30a
This one off class is offered in the style of a studio drop-in class. We’ll warm-up, question and move together. Let’s take our questions and movement inquiries and weave them into the practice of “taking class”.
Bio: Phoenicia Pettyjohn is a SF resident, movement artist, educator and certified Axis Syllabus teacher. She brings her life long love of taking dance class to her teachings of contemporary dance and other forms. Current performance collaborators include Aura Fischbeck Dance and Catherine Galasso.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $20 | after July 5: $30
Capoeira and The Axis Syllabus with Nuria Bowart
July 11, 5:30 - 7:30p
Within Capoeira is a helical intelligence that utilizes elastic recoil and spiraling ramps. In Capoeira we use spiraling ramps, and our own network of tension and joint articulations to navigate the terrain between the Earth and Sky. Using the soft and strong surfaces of our bodies we can manage a force like gravity, with grace. This class is focusing on moving in and out of the floor in partners and will involve the use of high dynamics, strength and coordination.
Bio: Nuria Bowart is a movement artist, a healer, a teacher and a mother. She has been dancing her whole life and has spent more than two decades teaching Capoeira, improvisation and partner dance of various types. Nuria is an avid student and teacher of anatomy. She is a teacher of the Axis Syllabus, and has a private practice as a Rolfer. Nuria enjoys snuggling with her kids and making movement games.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $25 | June 1-July 4: $35 | after July 5: $45
July 11, 5:30 - 7:30p
Within Capoeira is a helical intelligence that utilizes elastic recoil and spiraling ramps. In Capoeira we use spiraling ramps, and our own network of tension and joint articulations to navigate the terrain between the Earth and Sky. Using the soft and strong surfaces of our bodies we can manage a force like gravity, with grace. This class is focusing on moving in and out of the floor in partners and will involve the use of high dynamics, strength and coordination.
Bio: Nuria Bowart is a movement artist, a healer, a teacher and a mother. She has been dancing her whole life and has spent more than two decades teaching Capoeira, improvisation and partner dance of various types. Nuria is an avid student and teacher of anatomy. She is a teacher of the Axis Syllabus, and has a private practice as a Rolfer. Nuria enjoys snuggling with her kids and making movement games.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $25 | June 1-July 4: $35 | after July 5: $45
Returning to the periphery to walk with nature with Lori Halliday
July 15, 10a - 1p
Lessons on rising and falling with a 360 degree perspective. Exploring the approaches animals take to rising and falling as one ambles through nature encountering human and spacial changes with readiness and relaxation.
Bio: Lori Halliday has been immersed in movement practices for the last 20 years including the Axis Syllabus International research community Gyrotonic, Pilates, Natural Horsemanahip and Equine Experiential Learning. Her research and passion continue to develop with the herd in the Santa Cruz mountains at Horse And Heart Ranch where she studies and teaches with horses and humans.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $30 | June 1-July 4: $40 | after July 5: $50
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
July 15, 10a - 1p
Lessons on rising and falling with a 360 degree perspective. Exploring the approaches animals take to rising and falling as one ambles through nature encountering human and spacial changes with readiness and relaxation.
Bio: Lori Halliday has been immersed in movement practices for the last 20 years including the Axis Syllabus International research community Gyrotonic, Pilates, Natural Horsemanahip and Equine Experiential Learning. Her research and passion continue to develop with the herd in the Santa Cruz mountains at Horse And Heart Ranch where she studies and teaches with horses and humans.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $30 | June 1-July 4: $40 | after July 5: $50
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
lab classes
more information on lab classes coming soon!
Kyra Rice July 6, 10 - 11:30a
René Smith July 7, 10 - 11:30a
Bronwyn Michaels July 10, 1 - 2:30p
Rosemary Hannon July 12, 1 - 2:30p
Emily Jones July 13, 10 - 11:30a
Sam Stone July 14, 10 - 11:30
Price schedule: all lab classes $10
René Smith July 7, 10 - 11:30a
Bronwyn Michaels July 10, 1 - 2:30p
Rosemary Hannon July 12, 1 - 2:30p
Emily Jones July 13, 10 - 11:30a
Sam Stone July 14, 10 - 11:30
Price schedule: all lab classes $10
special events
JULY 6 7 - 9p
Therapeutic Applications of the Axis Syllabus
This is an opportunity to ask questions and hear from certified Axis Syllabus teachers who are applying the AS to therapeutic situations. The panel will be made up of Practitioners of Feldenkrais, Rolfing, Massage, Occupational Therapy and Equine Therapy.
JULY 9 5:30 - 7p
Anatomy Pot-Luck
location TBA
JULY 13
Special Performance & Dance Party
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
Therapeutic Applications of the Axis Syllabus
This is an opportunity to ask questions and hear from certified Axis Syllabus teachers who are applying the AS to therapeutic situations. The panel will be made up of Practitioners of Feldenkrais, Rolfing, Massage, Occupational Therapy and Equine Therapy.
JULY 9 5:30 - 7p
Anatomy Pot-Luck
location TBA
JULY 13
Special Performance & Dance Party
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
Sebastian Grubb
