A Ten Week Series: 5 classes devoted to your body’s energetics and 5 classes devoted to learning physical exercises to balance your muscles and your structure.
This workshop will help take your running and/or any movement in your life to another level. It will teach you how to release energy so that you can move more freely and tap the potential power that is in your body.
What you will learn:
- The Power of Good Posture
- More Awareness of your Body
- Individualized Exercises to Correct Muscle Imbalances
- How to apply these techniques to improve your running
- Fun and Inspiration!
Dates: 10 consecutive Monday evenings – February 27 – May 7
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: 4586 North 95th Street, Lafayette, CO.
(1.25 miles north of the intersection of Valmont and 95th).
Workshop Price for the 10 Class Series • $275.
If you register before January 15th: $250, and if you register with a friend$250.
How to Register: To register online go to: janetrunyan.com/radiant-body-workshop/. Or, call Douglas Wisoff at 303-499-2062 or email at douglas@radiantrunning.com.
Description:
Session One: Radiant Body Class: Segments and Bands
• Feb. 27
In this initial session we will define the territory. We will describe the different body segments and define their different functions and how they interrelate. This will entail part lecture and part experiential awareness exercises. Studying how the body does and could function can help us direct our attention and explore conceptually and experientially it’s potential.
Session Two: Runner’s Body Clinic
• March 5
This class will begin with a postural assessment; lying down, standing, and walking. There will be exercises to establish segmental alignment. Each person will develop a keen sense of when that alignment is achieved and how it enables them to tap the power associated with centered and unified movement.
Session 3: Radiant Body Class: Building the Body From the Ground Up
• March 12
Emphasis will be on pelvis, hips, legs, and feet. You will be taken through a series of exercises that helps develop your relationship to the ground. Learning how to relax and release this part of the body is crucial to more fluid and powerful movement throughout the body.
Session 4: Runner’s Body Clinic
• March 19
You will learn exercises for the hips, pelvis, and legs that enhance both form and function in walking and running. Exercises will be specific to the needs of individuals in the class and will increase the repertoire of everyone participating. You will then be able to sort out what exercises you can use to augment the force production of this important segment.
Session 5 Radiant Body Class: The Power of Now
• March 26
The chest area contains the organs of our immediate experience of life. In one moment food and air is external to us and the next it is in our bodies (the chest area), providing a great source of energy, inspiration and motivation. With the chest we appreciate the mystery first hand. This session will address the chest segment with dynamic exercises to enhance its function.
Session 6 Runner’s Body Clinics
• April 2
The chest segment, an important energy booster of the body, is rarely tapped for its full contribution to movement, both with regards to force of breath and the coordination through the torso and pelvis. On the contrary, because of the number and complexity of the muscles of this area, tension and holding tend to constrict breathing and motion. The exercises given in this class will enhance breath and increase range of motion, strength, and the coordination.
Session 7 Radiant Body Class: Integration of Body, Mind and Movement
• April 16
Important Exercises that integrate the upper and lower segments of the body will establish your body’s relationship to the ground, to the space around you, and to graceful movement through that space.
Session 8 Runner’s Body Clinic • April 23
This class will focus on improving awareness and coordination of the large multi-segmental muscles of the core. The latissimus dorsi relates the arms, chest, and torso to the pelvis. The abdominals relate the lower chest and torso to the pelvis, and the psoas relates the torso to the thighs and hips. When these muscles are activated and balanced, movement becomes effort-less.
Session 9 Radiant Body Class: Head and Neck • April 30
It is now time to get our heads on straight. Our orientation to, perceptions of, and attitudes about the environment we live in is affected by the way we hold our heads. Our head and neck position plays a huge role in the integration of the body and our sense of extension and connection. Exercises given in this class will help with head position, neck suppleness and flexibility for improved range of motion, and the flow of blood and nerve impulses. This segment contains our command center and controls the reflexes having to do with awareness of space and balance, the distribution of nerve signals throughout the body, and our ability to register, process and respond consciously to a wide variety of information.
Session 10 Runner’s Body Clinic • May 7
A short and enjoyable run in which we will apply the practices and principles learned over the previous six sessions.
What people are saying about the Radiant Body Workshop:
“Douglas/Janet,
“I just wanted to thank you for your work with me during the 10 week Radiant Body Class. I have been running with an injury for over 3 years and registered for the class because I needed help. When I started the class I was running 3 times a week for total of 10 miles. My runs were hard and painful. As I ended the course with you, I ran 6 times during the week for a total of 41 pain free miles. Working with Douglas one on one in conjunction with incorporating the exercises I learned in class, I am able to run pain free. The injury I have had for 3 years has subsided. The awareness, the body sensing, and the new distinctions I have about running allows me to have a more powerful “running pain free” conversation before, during, and after my runs. I’m looking forward to my future runs!” — Wayne Rush
“… I finally discovered my hips and their ability to give me my running form back.”
“The principles I learned are widely applicable to all parts of my life …”
“These techniques and quiet exercises have all but eliminated my shoulder and neck pain …”
“Suddenly things I’d been struggling with for years with dancing fell into place …”
