MAPPING THE BODY IN SPACE ~ Setting Up A Reading
September 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th

In this section we will set up the conditions to garner information for the student and the teacher to use. First we set up a body to be deciphered as a map. This includes how to strap a student's feet to their pelvis, raise them up on blankets as a throne, find more volume with the use of blocks and provide a sense of safety with sandbags. As we organize the student we are reading by putting them at a right angle, we find our directions. Personal information is found by setting up universal directions via plugging in to the big socket of the earth and positioning the student on a plumb line, whose utility is to find center and circumference. This first section will focus on the establishment of trust, safety and making good contact, because everything is relationships, relationships, relationships.

READING THE BODY IN TIME ~ The Reading Itself by Reflection
October 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th

In this section we will explore reading feet and how the feet are fractals of the whole narrative. Once we've established a foot reading and how the explicit can reveal implicit information, we can then read the third hand on the second floor of our personal abode. We can determine how personal orientation and how we are directed, implies intention. We can look at the body as a house to find new clues or we can look at the body as a car and discover how glands offer implicit information. We can unearth lunar, solar and stellar material in the body and how they are integrated. The more formal we are with our body as a map, the more personally we can use it to the advantage of the student and our exploration together for well being.

DIAGNOSTICS ~ Meeting the Peculiarities Head On
November 4th, 11th, 18th

In this section we will address chronic or acute issues each student comes in with. A funky wrist, a hip that doesn't plug in, a shoulder that's “frozen,” an eye that doesn't track. The map of the body is like a grid. None of us really fit perfectly on a grid because we are human and not archetypes. But that "ideal" brings to light the personal foible, leak, dent, tear, ache, physical conundrum that nags. In this section of our series we will learn techniques to calm down, reconcile, rotate, re-dress these ornery, onerous gremlins.

WHAT TO DO WITH OUR READING ~ Embodying Our Discoveries
December 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd

In this section we will explore what to do with the information we discover in a body reading. These sessions will include a brief reading, followed by a physical embodiment of our discoveries to explore further what we find. This is a way for our students (those being read) to use the information from our reading to inform their personal practice. Using information from a body reading extends the formality of the reading to the very personal exploration of home practice. Putting a student through a series of restorative postures, a physical practice, will further enlighten, inform and galvanize the student to iron out habits, boost curiosity and challenge all of us to work together for everyone's benefit.