Balance Arts Center

Your Body at Work Series
Saturday Oct. 2, 3-6pm – Introduction
Monday, Oct. 18, 7:15 – 8:45 pm Session #1 Your Work Setup, Sitting, Working at the Computer
Monday, Oct. 25, 7:15 – 8:45 pm Session #2 Eye Ease
Monday, Nov. 1, 7:15 – 8:45 pm Session #3 Back Pain and Prevention
Monday, Nov. 8, 7:15 – 8:45 pm Session #4 Communication
It is not necessary to experience pain while sitting at your office workstation. Office injuries, including pains and strains caused by cumulative stresses, pose a serious threat to your overall health and to the quality of your work. This series of workshops will help you to break free from harmful habits and improve your ergonomic setup, including the most important factor in the ergonomics equation: YOU!

$175 Intro + 4 Sessions
$75 Intro only
$125 4 Sessions OR $35/session
Email Ann Rodiger to register: arodiger@earthlink.net

September-October 2010
Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm

September 14: Vowels
September 21: Consonant
September 28: Starting and Stopping
October 5: Ongoing Continuous Sound

Learn in a four-session workshop how to better produce vowels, consonants, how to start and stop more easily, and how to produce ongoing continuous sound with more articulation and freedom while you are vocalizing. Your new knowledge will be applied directly to your singing. The awareness and understanding you gain will increase the effectiveness of your voice lessons by helping you understand more clearly what your teacher is asking you to do. Enrollment is limited to ensure ample individual attention.

Integrated Awareness Meditation
Sunday November 14, 2010, 2-5pm, $75
114 Fulton St. #3W, Downtown Manhattan

In this workshop we will practice meditation by focusing on optimal posture, breath and balance through the principles of the Alexander Technique. We will use creative visualizations and guided meditations to liberate the wisdom of our hearts. Through this process you will learn to recognize how thought patterns manifest in your body and how to release habitual patterns of thought and behavior. As you follow the voice and flow of your own inner wisdom you will experience an embodied awareness of your unified heart, body and mind. This workshop is a wonderful introduction to meditation for beginners and an opportunity for experienced meditators to go deeper.

Saturday October 30, 2010
114 Fulton St. #3W, Downtown Manhattan

Ann Rodiger will introduce the Alexander Technique principles as they relate to the practice of Yoga. The Alexander Technique is a mind/body educational method that helps restore balance, freedom and ease of movement, and improves one’s overall mental and physical functioning. No Pre-registration required.

October-November 2010
Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm

October 12: Jaw
October 19: Tongue
October 26: Diaphragm
November 2: Whole Body

Learn in a four-session workshop how to use your jaw, tongue, diaphragm, and whole body with more articulation and freedom while you are volcalizing. Your new knowledge will be applied directly to your singing. The awareness and understanding you gain will increase the effectiveness of your voice lessons by helping you understand more clearly what your teacher is asking you to do. Enrollment is limited to ensure ample individual attention.

Integrated Awareness Meditation
Sunday September 26, 2010, 2-5pm, $75
114 Fulton St. #3W, Downtown Manhattan

In this workshop we will practice meditation by focusing on optimal posture, breath and balance through the principles of the Alexander Technique. We will use creative visualizations and guided meditations to liberate the wisdom of our hearts. Through this process you will learn to recognize how thought patterns manifest in your body and how to release habitual patterns of thought and behavior. As you follow the voice and flow of your own inner wisdom you will experience an embodied awareness of your unified heart, body and mind. This workshop is a wonderful introduction to meditation for beginners and an opportunity for experienced meditators to go deeper.