'Life is movement - movement is life'

Dynamic Bodywork  

• video  Karola teaching  Dynamic Bodywork workshop at Cucalorus Film Festival 2014 part 2
• video of Lecture Demonstration (advanced level, free improvisation)

Passive soft tissue release  is combined with mindful and knowledgeable, bio-mechanically informed,  movement to address the body's true nature as a facilitator for movement. Integrating soft tissue changes, while the client is gently moving, helps the body, and brain, re-structure movement habits. The knowledge and experience of actively taking control over one's own health is tremendously important. Being actively involved allows for a whole new challenge and helps the body understand the purpose of the soft tissue changes immediately. The information about movement is applicable to every day life situations such as sitting, walking, running, lifting grocery bags, playing with children, and of course... dancing.

Wear soft, loose clothing you can move in freely. long sleeves and long sweatpants allow for better sliding on the floor.

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Below is more information about the movement principles underlying the dynamic bodywork:

BII - The Body's Intrinsic Intelligence:
Is my personal approach to movement, and the name for my movement classes. I draw inspiration for my classes from various disciplines, such as Feldenkrais, Aikido and mostly the Axis Syllabus (www.axissyllabus.org).


In Dynamic Bodywork we first look at how to sense the body as we are moving, and how  to honor the anatomical design and how to flow from movement to movement. 


Manual Therapy and movement flow in and out of a Dynamic Bodywork session depending on need, preference and ability of the client. The goal  is to  help the body remember how to move freely and with as little effort as possible and to instill positive change of counterproductive postural and movement habits. 


The work is  relaxing but also invigorating.

The Axis Syllabus (www.axissyllabus.org):
(www.axissyllabus.org)
Quote from the Axis Syllabus website: 
'Lexicon of human movement principles.  THE AXIS SYLLABUS   is a system for cross-correlating movement principles, bringing pertinent information about training the body and movement practice into an accessible format, a user's manual for dancers, athletes and physiotherapists.'

In my opinion, this is some of the best work out there. It alone can get you pain free. Once the body's structures begin moving in accordance with each other again, pain and tension patterns usually subside.

I highly recommend the Axis Syllabus. I am currently enrolled in their program to become a certified AS teacher.
If you get the chance to take a workshop with them, do!