Move, Focus, Prepare! & Psychological First Aid (PFA)
Movement lessons with Focusing on Preparedness
Currently Online via Zoom
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MOVE: Feldenkrais®, Taiji, Movement Intelligence
Lessons and daily practice develop our skills in moving through unusual circumstances.
FOCUS: Helpful anytime and also in extreme situations, such as disasters or traumatic injury, or aging, we learn Focusing as developed by Eugene Gendlin and taught worldwide.
PREPARE: Preparing for or adapting to the Pandemic, Earthquakes, or Hurricanes; our project grows step by step.
Weaving together steps for preparedness – we cultivate trust in being prepared for a possible Earthquake on the Cascadia Pacific coast of North America and Canada., Hurricanes on the Atlantic coast, or in Europe and beyond.
Each week we begin with a review of previous lessons in the series, then you will learn one new lesson with reflections and applications to preparedness.
BUSAR team were deployed to Adiyaman, Turkey
Our team members on the ground successfully helped rescue a trapped victim from a collapsed multi story building.
OUR MISSION
Burnaby USAR Canada is People Helping People when Disaster Strikes
Our Mission is to maintain an Urban Search and Rescue Team possessing specialized capabilities and resources for responding to disaster sites, man-made or natural. The primary purpose of our team is to safely and effectively:
– Rescue those that are in danger
– Search for those that are missing
– Support and help those affected by the disaster
– Recover those that have been lost
– Mitigate major property loss
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The terms Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement, and Functional Integration are registered service marks in Canada of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America (FGNA). Movement Intelligence Programs are the intellectual property of Ruthy Alon, Ph.D. Process Descriptions written by Anna Haltrecht © 2017
Feldenkrais & Taiji share several principles: combining these practices in our workshop will provide a bird’s eye view of how they enhance each other.
The Symbol of Taiji
The yin yang symbol of two teardrops creates the sense of movement. The left side of the circle is filled with the white teardrop with its bulb at the top as though it is ascending. The black teardrop descends with the bulb shape located at the bottom of the circle. This creates the illusion of a clockwise movement.
With the year 2016 I celebrated ten years teaching as a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education. It has also been a great pleasure to serve as a Level 3 Senior Instructor with the Canadian Taijiquan Federation since 2011. My experience with martial arts began in San Francisco 1965-70 when I studied Aikido with Robert Nadeau.
In 1970 I moved to Vancouver, BC to teach Ballet for Norbert Vesak at his West Vancouver School while he traveled to choreograph for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. In addition to teaching Ballet I completed certification in the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education and studied Yang style Taiji in Vancouver with Raymond Chung, Sam Masich, and Shou Yu Liang.
Since 1991 I have been teaching Taiji at various locations in Vancouver, Victoria, British Columbia including Waterloo Park, Dunbar Community Center Park, Crofton Manor, Ten Thousand Villages, and Southlands Farm Markets.
My Feldenkrais® practice continues to enhance the Taiji curriculum.
During the International Feldenkrais Conferences 2012, 2013, 2014, I offered informal Taiji lessons in the early mornings. The response was heartening and led to my proposal for Feldenkrais & Taiji workshop the 2017 Conference!