Special events with Deborah Quilter

Learning For Health and the Feldenkrais® Center for Movement Education invite you to an evening presentation and all-day workshops featuring special guest teacher Deborah Quilter - leading author and teacher on Repetitive Strain Injuries, rehabilitation and recovery - and FCME's Cliff Smyth. Two of America's most knowledgeable teachers about RSI recovery, teaching together for the first time!

Creating the Conditions for Healing

An evening with Deborah Quilter

Healing, in many ways, is a choice. Through our daily actions, we can encourage or disrupt the recovery process. In this special evening mini-seminar Deborah Quilter will discuss ways you can take recovery into your own hands, including an overview of the use of visualization, meditation and self-talk, self-treatment and self-care options, the role of relaxation and restoration, how emotions can speed or impede recovery, and the appropriate use of exercise and movement.

Tools For Healing

Workshops with Deborah Quilter and Cliff Smyth

Take steps toward healing by exploring a number of effective approaches. These workshops will feature applications from gentle, restorative Yoga, and the Feldenkrais Method® that are particularly suitable for people with RSI or other injuries affecting the hands and arms, and others living with painful conditions. Through gentle work with the breath, the eyes and your whole self, you will not only feel better, but also will have a number of techniques you can take home to use for yourself. The Yoga postures and Feldenkrais lessons will be gentle and non-competitive. The workshop will also explore the attitudes that help your transform your experience and move toward healing. The workshop groups will be small, with a maximum of 12 participants, to allow for attention to your individual learning needs. The combined experience and synergy of these two exceptional teachers will make this an invaluable workshop.

Dates and Times

Cost

Venue

Feldenkrais Center for Movement Education, 98 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA 94131. Phone 415.826.3680

Registration

Registration for these events is essential. Call 415.826.3680 to reserve a place and then forward a check made out to Cliff Smyth by Friday April 25 to secure your place. When you register, please let us know of any restrictions you may have in sitting or lying down.

Book early as we expect these events to fill and space is limited.

The Teachers

Deborah Quilter

Deborah Quilter is a well-known author, consultant, certified Yoga and Awareness Through Movement teacher and leading expert on RSI. She has written two books, The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book and Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide and has appeared on national television and radio programs. Ms. Quilter has presented her work both in the United States and abroad, and has helped many people with RSI recover more functional use of their upper extremity. You can find out more about her work at: www.RSIhelp.com.

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Cliff Smyth

Cliff Smyth is the creator of the Easy Hands and Arms audio program of Awareness Through Movement lessons. With sixteen years of teaching the Feldenkrais Method he has specialized in working with people with RSI and other hand and arm injuries. He also trains other Feldenkrais practitioners his approaches to these conditions in Australia and Europe as well as across the USA. He also practices Yoga Nidra and mindfulness meditation, and teaches about stress.

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